( ■nl-IIiUVOl.'IlILA. I'UnllK KI.I.A. 22? 



fuscous between them beyond it on costa ; subterminal lino whitish 

 defined by fuseoua suffusion on inner side, angled inwards below 

 costa, outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 and incurved at discal fold and 

 below vein 3 ; tho tennen strongly suffused with brown on apical 

 half and with terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, 

 uniformly tinged with brown, the cilia white. 



Ilab. L'.S.A., California, cotype f $ in Coll. J. B. Smith. Exp 

 24 niillim. 



Genus PRODICELLA, nov. 



Type, P. dor en a. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, tho 2nd joint reaching 

 about tu middle of irons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd 

 moderate; frons with large rounded prominence with corneous shovel-shaped 

 plate at middle and triangular plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antenna; of 

 male almost simple; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the prot borax without 

 crest, the met athorax with rounded decumbent crest; tibiae slightly fringed 

 with hair; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with tho apex rounded, tho 

 tennen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Mind wing. with veins 3, 4 stalked; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulara ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to one- 

 third length. 



0844. Prodicella darena. 



Thalporhares darena, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 490, pi. 95. f. 21 

 (1898). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous white ; tarsi 

 banded with brown ; abdomen white slightly tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing ochreous whitish suffused with red-brown ; the medial 

 area, except beyond the reniform, and the terminal area darker rod- 

 brown ; some dark red-brown on base of costa with a pale striga on 

 it representing the subbasal line ; antemedial lino black-brown 

 with pale suffusion before it, almost straight and erect ; orbicular 

 and reniform small, with slight whitish annuli incompletely defined 



Fig. 52. — Prodicella darena, q. ). 



by dark brown, the former round, a dark streak before and between 

 them in discal fold ; posfmedial line dark brown defined by whitish 

 on outer side, obsolescent except beyond the cell and below vein 2, 

 bent outwards below costa, then very minutely waved, below vein 4 

 bent inwards to below end of cell, then erect, same pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; an indistinct pale subterminal line with dark 

 brown patch before it on costal area, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of blackish stria?. Hind wing white, the 



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