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AKCTIAD^. 



llah. Mexico, Jalapa (Iloege), 1 J type, Cordova (Kuvidi), 1 J, 

 Vera Cruz. E.v2j. 38 millim. 



Genus NEAXIA, nov. 



Type, N. theon. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, hardly reaching vertex of head ; 

 antenniE of male with short branches ending in a bristle. Fore wing with 

 vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; i5 from just above angle ; 6 from upper 

 angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from beyond 7; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4, 6 coincident and 2 stalked with them ; 6, 7 coincident ; 8 from 

 middle of cell ; the basal part of costa greatly lobed, apical part truncate ; a 

 patch of androconia on upperside on subcostal nervure at end of cell. 



*1231. Neaxia theon. 



Amaxia theon, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) vi. p. 66 (1900). 



c? . Head and thorax pale yellow ; palpi white in front, black 

 behind ; antennae brown, white at tij^s ; frons with a brown spot ; ' 



tegulae with brown spots in 

 front and brown at sides ; 

 patagia and thorax striped 

 with brown and orange : 

 abdomen dorsall)^ fuscous 

 brown except the terminal 

 segmen t, with a dorsal orange 

 tuft on 3rd segment ; pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen whitish. Fore wing 



pale yellow ; some confluent lirown spots at base, on costa, and 

 below cell ; an antemedial band of confluent brown spots expanding 

 on inner margin to tornus, with a scarlet and yellow point on 

 it at origin of vein 2, two in submedian fold, and short streaks on 

 vein 1 and above inner margin ; a small dark annulus in end 

 of cell and a curved series of five just beyond the cell; a post- 

 medial scries of elongate spots from costa to vein 4, the spot above 

 vein 5 longer, and small spots above veins 3 and 2 ; subterminal 

 and terminal series of small spots. Hind wingsemihyaline whitish, 

 the inner and terminal areas broadly tinged with brown ; the patch 

 of androconia orange. 



Ilah. Venezuela, Merida (Briceno), type f cJ in Coll. Pruce, 

 Exj). 42 millim. 



Genus ERIOSTEPTA, nov. 



Type, E. roseireta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head ; 

 antenna; of male with short branches ending in a bristle ; tibiae with the spurs 

 siiort ; abdomen dorsally clothed with "rough hair. Fore wing broad, the 

 termen obUquely rounded ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from just above 

 angle; 6 from upper angle; 7,8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from beyond 7; 11 free. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from close to angle of cell; 3, 4, 5 coincident; 0, 

 7 coincident ; 8 from middle of cell obsolescent; male with the inner area very 



