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Sect. III. Autennre of male ciliated ; mid tibiae of male dilated with a groove 

 containing tufts of flocculent yellow hair and fringed with large 

 curved scales. 



1486. Nephelistis vellerea. 



Tceniocampa vellerea, Schans, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 2.37 (1894). 

 Conservula cedlca, Druce, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 475, pi. 93. fif. 9, 10 

 (1898). * 



S . Head and thorax brown, the scales tipped with grey ; abdo- 

 men grey-brown, the ventral surface darker, the anal tuft more 

 oc'hreous. Fore wing dark brown suffused and irrorated with 

 purplish grey, the postmedial area purplish grey ; faint traces of an 

 antemedial line, with the area before it rather greyer below the cell ; 

 the postmedial line pale, obliquely curved, not quite reaching costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, grey, excurved at veia 7 and middle ; a 



Fig. 48. — Nephelistis vellerea, ^ . \. 



fine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing ochreous white, the 

 veins, costal and terminal areas tinged with brown, especially 

 towards apex ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa, typef S in Coll. Schaus, (Trujillo) 1 c? 

 type cedica, Orizaba (Bouchard) ; Panama, Chiriqui {Champmi), 

 1 5 , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 34-36 millim. 



Genus HYDR(ECIODES, nov. 



Type, H. alala. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with hair 

 in front, the 3rd short, oblique, hairy in tront ; frons with rounded prominence 

 with curved corneous plate below it; eyes large, rounded, overhung by long 

 cilia ; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the vertex of head with 

 large crest ; the tegulaj produced upwards into a slight ridge ; the pro- and ineta- 

 thorax with spreading crests; tibia; fringed with rather long hair; abdomen 

 with large dorsal crest on 1st segment. Fore wing rather narrow ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



