OGDCCONTA. 89 



Genus OGDOCONTA. 



Tvpe. 

 Ogdoconta, Butl. A.M.N. H. (6) vii. p. 402 (1891) cinereula. 



Proboscis fully dcTeloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint rcacliing about to 

 vertex of head and moderately Iringed with scales in front, the 3rd moderate ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenuEe of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, tlie prothorax with long oblique flattened crest, the meta- 

 thorax with spreading crest; tibia' moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crests on 1st two segments. Fore wing with the ajjex rectangular, 

 the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near 

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

 the areole; 11 from cell. Hmd wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 5 obsolescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from ujjpcr 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with oblique white baud from apex to inner 



margin beyond middle muxida. 



13. Fore wing without oblique white band IVom apex to inner 

 margin. 

 a. Fore wing with the postmedial line bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and nearly straight. 

 u^. Fore wing with distinct whitish annulus to reniform 

 constricted at middle, 

 a-. Fore wing with the medial area black-brown and 

 much darker than the postmedial area, the post- 

 medial line obsolescent , carncGla. 



h'~. Fore wing with the medial area red-brown, the 

 postmedial area pinkish, the postmedial line 



distinct cincrcola. 



h^. Fore wing with the reniform an ill-defined pale 



lunule morcno. 



h. Fore wing with the postniedial line excurved at middle 

 and oblique below vein 4. 

 «.'. Fore wing with the reniform angled inwards on 



median nervure to below orbicular tacna. 



h^. Fore wing with the reniform constricted at middle, 



but not angled inwards on median nervure lilaciiia. 



c\ Fore wing with the reniform elliptical cymoyraiJia. 



*4406. Ogdoconta miiscula. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 13.) 

 Tlagiomimicus mu.<cuhis, Schaus, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. vi. p. 144 (1898). 



S . Head and thorax grey irroratcd with dark bro-\vn ; abdomen 

 giey mixed with brown, the anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing groy- 

 A\'hite tinged in places with ochreous and very thickly irrorated 

 with dark brown ; an indistinct antemedial grey line obtusely angled 

 on median nervure, then oblique; a straight oblique white band 

 I'rom apex to inner margin beyond middle, towards which it is 

 broader and diffused on outer side and with traces of a line beyond 

 it. Hind wing white slightly irroratcd with brown, especially 

 towards apex and termen ; the underside with the costal area 

 except towards base and apical area irroratcd with dark brown. 



Hah. Mexico, Oaxaca, type t J in Coll. U.S. JNat. Mus. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



