OGDOCONTA. — GERODA, 93 



cell to inner margin ; orbicular faintly defined by brown, round, 

 confluent with antemcdial liiu^; reniform faintly defined by brown, 

 elliptical, with whitish patch on its outer edge; an indistinct 

 brown medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell across 

 lower part of reniform, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line 

 brown defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate, slightly incurved at discal fold, then oblique, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by whitish scales slightly defined on inner side by red-brown, 

 sopiewhat waved • a series of slight whitish lunules just before 

 termen. Hind wing whitish suffused and irrorated with cupreous 

 brown, the cilia paler; the underside white slightly irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. Mexico, Vera Cruz, Atoyae (Schumann), 1 J type, Godman- 

 Salvin Coll. Exjp. 28 millim. 



Genus GERODA. 



Tvpe. 

 GcroJa, \Tlk. xis. 832 (1S59) a'cnaimlis. 



Proboscis fullj^ developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 large, round; antennas of male minutely serrate and ciliated; thorax clothed 

 almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with long llattened crest projecting 

 obliquely backwards, the naetathorax with spreading crest ; tibiie moderately 

 li-inged with hair ; build slender ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. 

 Fore wing with the costa strongly arched at base, the apex produced and 

 acute, the termen excised below apex and more or less excurved at middle, 

 then oblique to tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (! 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 middle of diseo- 

 cellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform a narrow white lunule angled 



inwards on median nervure cornifira. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform with complete white aunulus. c.vcina. 



C. Fore wing with the reniform figure-of-8-shaped, its 



lower ]iart with white annuliis, its upper jiart incomplete, leucacijcla. 



D. Fore wing with the reniform yellow, its lower part witli 



rufous spot and white annulus xcricnsalis. 



4413. Geroda coniifera. 



Leva cornijcra, Wlk. sxxiii. 849 (1865). 



6 . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ; pectus wliitish. Fore 

 wing rufous ; a black subbasal point in cell ; a strongly waved 

 antemedial dark line, angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by a black ])oint ; reniform white slightly defined by black, 

 very narrow, produced to a long excurved point above and angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; medial line rather indistinct, excurved 

 from costa to discal fold beyond the cell, then incurved to lower 

 angle of cell and oblique to inner margin ; postmedial line fine, 



