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laminate and ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the pro- 

 tiiorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest, the patagia curled 

 upwards at extremities; tibiie smoothly scaled, the fore tibiae with small 

 curved claw on inner side at extremity ; abdomen without crests. Fore winj; 

 with the apex somewh.at produced and acute, the term-^n evenly curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins .'5 and 5 t'roiu Tiear angle of cell ; 6 frum upper single ; 'J 

 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 fr(mi angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from well below middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near ba^e only. 



4024. Xanthiria priimilina. 



Mefopniiia primulina, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Ilet. i. p. 303, pi. '28. f. 10 

 (1880). 



(S . Head, tegiilse, and front of thorax bright yellow, the rest of 

 thorax deep lufous; palpi, froiis, antenna}, pectus, and legs tinged 

 with rufous, the sides of frons dark biown : antennae rut'ous, 

 ventrall}' yellow tinged with rufous. Fore wing bright yellow 

 with deep rufous fascia on base of inner margin ex[)aiiding into 

 slight teeth at middle and extremity : the costal edge tinged with 

 rufous to beyond middle ; a suhbasal black point in cell ; an ante- 

 medial black point in upper part of cell ; the orbicular represented 



Fig. 90. —Xanthiria priinulitiu, ^ . \. 



by two black points, the reniform by two points on i(s inner edge 

 and one beyond upper angle of cell; faint traces of a rufous post- 

 medial line e.xctirved froin vein 7 to 4, then obliquely incurved, 

 with a brown point on inner margin ; a .subterminal brown point 

 on inner margin. Hind wing yellowish white suffused with brown ; 

 cilia yellow. Underside of fore wing brown, the costa yellow 

 tinged with rufous ; hind wing white tinged with brown especially 

 on terminal area, traces of a diffused curved postinedial line. 



Hah. Me.xico, Guerrero, Omilteme (7/. H. Smith), 3 o type, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. EdjJ. ^0 millim. 



Genus STIRIODES, nov. 



Type, S. obtiisa. 



Proboscis aborted, 9n\all ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to just beyond 

 tlie fron-s, the 2nd joint slightly fringed wiih hair, the 3rd short, pon-cct; 

 Irons vvitli rounded prominence with large llait'Hed corneous plate at middle 

 and curved plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male laminate 

 and ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the jirothoi-ax witliout 



