622 



AGAEISTlDiE. 



brown discoidal lunule, tho grej'-brown area shading into dark 

 brown towards the grey patch. Hind wing grey-brown, with a 

 yellow patch on basal area extending from inner margin to subcostal 

 nervnre and to beyond the cell, its outer edge rounded ; a yellow 

 and dark brown subterminal lunule in submedian interspace. 

 Underside of fore wing with diffused yellow fascia along median 



nervure. 



Hah. Brazil, Sta. Catherina (ScJimidt), 

 millim. 



Genus TUERTA. 



1 2 type. Exp. 52 



Tuo-ta, Wlk. Proo. N. H. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 346 (1869) 

 ^fisa, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. 1895, p. 349 



Type. 



ckri/socklora. 

 memnonia. 



Proboscis fully developed : palpi obliquely uptui-ued, the 2iid joint fringed 

 witb bair in front, the 3rd i-ougbly scaled ; irons with truncate conical 

 prominence with raised rim at extremity ; antennse nearly simple and slightly 

 dilated towards extremity ; tibiaj fringed with bair above ; abdomen with dorsal 

 crests except on terminal segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole; 7 from beyond the areole, 11 from end of cell. Hind wing with 

 vein 2 from towards ani>le of cell ; o, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discoeellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. 1. {Tuerta). Frontal pro\ninence with its lower edge produced to a 

 point. 



A. Fore wing whitish irroi-ated with chocolate platensis. 



13. Fore wing olive-green, with the inner and terminal areas 

 chocolate. 

 a. Foi-e wing with the inner edge of terminal band angled 



at middle chri/sochlora. 



h. Fore wing with the inner edge of the terminal band 



oblique liturafa. 



158. Tuerta platensis. 



Euthisanotia platensis. Berg, An. Soc. Argent, xiii. p. 172 (1882) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 39, 



(S . Head and thorax clothed with chocolate and grey hair ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen yellow mottled with rufous, 



Fig. 273. — Tuerta platensis, (^ . 



the base and ventral surface whitish, the dorsal crests dark. Fore 

 wing whitish, thickly irrorated with chocolate-brown ; a white fascia 



