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the costa; postmedial line bent outward ; reniform mark paler than 

 the ground hue, large, of the usual form, containing two black dots, 

 brown-bordered, except on the inner side, where it is black-bordered. 

 Hind wings with two approximate black dots in the disk ; postmedial 

 line double. Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



Genus OBDORA. 



Mas. Corpus gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi laeves, robusti, 

 oblique ascendentes, verticem superantes ; articulus 3us linearis, 

 2o brevior et multo gracilior. Antennae setosae. Abdomen alas 

 posticas non superans. Pedes graciles, femoribus tibiisque fim- 

 briatis. Alae Iata3, margine exteriore subangulato ; anticae acutae, 

 subfalcatae; posticae margine exteriore postice subdentato. 



Male. Body slender. Proboscis short. Palpi smooth, stout, 

 obliquely ascending, rising higher than the vertex ; third joint 

 linear, shorter and more slender than the second. Antennae setose. 

 Abdomen shorter than the interior border of the hind wings. Legs 

 slender, smooth ; femora and tibiae fringed ; spurs long, slender. 

 Wings broad ; exterior border slightly angular in the middle. Fore 

 wings acute, subfalcate ; fourth inferior vein remote from the other 

 three, which are approximate to each other. Hind wings with the 

 hind part of the exterior border slightly dentate. 



OBDORA NIGRILINEA. Mas. Pallide testacea, subtus testaceo- 

 albida ; alis linea postmedia obliqua nigra, linea exteriore angulosa 

 albida, punctis submarginalibus nigricantibus ; alis anticis linea 

 postmedia angulata, lineis duabus subundulatis nigris ; alis posticis 

 linea postmedia recta. 



Male. Pale testaceous, testaceous whitish beneath. Wings with 

 a postmedial oblique black line, which forms a rather deep and some- 

 what rounded outward angle in the fore wings and is straight in the 

 hind wings ; a whitish indistinct zigzag line near the exterior border ; 

 submarginal points blackish ; under side with three very indistinct 

 and incomplete zigzag blackish lines. Fore wings with two slightly 

 undulating black lines, the inner one more bent than the outer one. 

 Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 17 lines. 



Genus ZINNA. 



Mas. Corpus sat gracile. Frons fasciculo porrecto acuto. Pro- 

 boscis mediocris. Palpi validi, compressi, Iteves, oblique ascendentes, 

 verticem vix superantes ; articulus 3us conicus. Antennae sub- 

 pectinata?. Abdomen alas posticas non superans, ventre basi pec- 

 toreque pilosis, fasciculo apicali brevissimo. Pedes sat robusti : 



