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costa ; subtermiual Hue represented by a series of white undula- 

 tions on brown marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle. Hind wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge, whitish 

 towards base and inner margin ; the underside j'ellowish white, 

 the costal and terminal areas thickly irrorated with brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Guatemala, Las Mercedes (Champion), 1 S type, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exjp. 34 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male bipectinate with very short branches, the apex 

 ciliated ; mid tibiae dilated, fringed with very long hair and with 

 expansible tuft of long yellow hair ; underside of both wings mostly 

 clothed with bright ochreous androconia and hair to beyond middle. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved below vein 4 ... clauda. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line obliquely curved. 



a. Head and tegulae rufous furva. 



b. Head and tegulse purplish brown differens. 



1483. Nephelistis clauda. 



Conservula clauda, Schaus, Trans. Am. Eut. Soc. xxi. p. 231 (1894) ; Druce, 



Biol. Centr.-Ara., Het. ii. p. 475. 

 Tceniocompa vellerea, Druce, Biol. Oentr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 484 (part.), nee 



Schaus. 



Head and thorax dark browu tinged with grey ; tarsi with pale 

 rings ; abdomen dark grey-brown. Fore wing dark brown suffused 

 with purplish grey and irrorated with whitish ; traces of a waved 

 whitish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an indistinct 

 oblique waved antemedial line ; the medial area suffused with 

 black-brown from submedian nervure to vein 1 ; orbicular and 

 reniform very indistinctly defined by grey, the former round ; post- 

 medial line grey slightly defined by blackish on inner side, strongly 

 bent outwards below costa, then oblique and excurved at median 



Fig. 47. — Nepkelistis clauda, c? . \. 



nervules ; subterminal line represented by a very obscure series of 

 whitish marks on diffused blackish patches, slightly angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine whitish line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the ciKa whitish with 

 dark line at base. The underside of both wings in male clothed 

 with bright ochreous hair and androconia to beyond middle except 

 costal area ; hind wing with black discoidal spot and sinuous post- 

 medial line, in female whitish thickly irrorated with brown, the 

 disk whiter. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 2 c? , 3 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. 

 Exji. 30 millim. Type t in Coll. Schaus. 



