22 i 



XOCTCID^. 



(leiuis NEUMCEGENIA. 



Type. 



yriiiiiu't/rnia, Grote, I'lip. ii. p. lo- (.1*'^'^-) poelica. 



KullUrich.ia, Ottoleiigiii, Can. Eut. x.\x. p. 107 (185)8), nee 



i'allitriclie. Poli, Moll. 1702 coro/iidcs. 



Trichocala, Dyar, Cat. Lep. A'. Am. p. 106 (1902) coroiiides. 



Probo.scis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2iul joint liardly 

 reacliing middle of frons and moderately sealed, the ord short; frons with 

 rounded prominence with corneous plat« below and ridge above ; eyes large, 

 round; antennse of male sotnewhat laminate and almost simple; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with sciile.s and witiiout crests; tibiic slightly fringed 

 with hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewiiat 

 produced, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 8 and f) from 

 near angle of cell; (5 from upper angle; 9 from 10 ana.stoinosing with 8 to 

 ff)rm the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell . 

 f) obsolescent from below middle of discoL-ellulars ; (5, 7 from upper angle ; 

 <S anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with white streak on terminal half of median 



nervure. 



a. Fore wing with the streak on median nervure bifurcating on 



veins 4, 3 poetica. 



b. Fore wing with the streak on median nervure and vein 4 



not bifurcate albavciia. 



B. Fore wing with purple-brown spot at lower angle of cell edged 



with white coronidcA. 



4597. Neumcegenia poetica. 



3>«)Wff</?«w ^<ic/im. Grote, Papilio, ii. pp. 132, 184 (1882); Smith, Cat. 



Koct. N. Am. p. 265. 

 Flusia smithi, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 329, pi. 30. f. 12 (1889); 



Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 19(5. 

 Kaliilrichia sagUtalha, Ottolengui, Can. Ent. x.\x. p. 108, pi. b. f. 7 



(1898). 



Head, teguliE, and front of thorax yellowish white, the re.st of 

 thorax brown ; palpi, frons, and antennie brownish ; pectus and legs 

 ochreous white, the fore legs tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreous 



Fig. 86. — Neumccrienia poetica, J. 



"white. Fore wing brilliant metallic golden green, the costal area 

 ochreous white expanding somewhat towards apex, the termen with 

 narrow^ ochreous white band ; the base reddish brown with oblique 

 outer edge ; the e.xtremitj- of median nervure and bases of veins o, 4, 3 

 streaked with ochreous white ; the termen and cilia pale olive with 



