400 NOCTTJTB^. 



4863. Pseudina albina, n. sp. (Plate CXLV. fig. 28.) 

 J Head black-brown with some blue-grey on vertex; palpi 

 white with black patches at sides of joints ; frons white with black 

 centre; thorax white, the base of tegulaj with waved black and 

 brown band; fore tibiee with brown bands, the tarsi brownish 

 banded with white ; abdomen black with some white at base and 

 on anal tuft, above, the ventral surface white with black bands. 

 Fore wino- silvery white ; subbasal line represented by slight black 

 stride froni costa and cell ; antemedial line slight, black, interrupted 

 below costa and at snbmedian fold, oblique, waved ; a black patch 

 on middle of costa with some blue-grey suffusion on it, contracting 

 at subcostal nervure and with its lower edge in cell excised ; post- 

 medial line represented bv a few black scales at costa and inner 

 margin ; a broad brown terminal band defined on inner side by an 

 irregularly waved black line except towards costa, incurved from 

 above vein 3 to submedian fold ; a pale waved subterminal line 

 defined by fuscous on inner side and with a dentate black mark 

 beyond it below apex, two at middle and two above tornus ; a fine 

 waved black terminal line defined on inner side by slight pale 

 lunules ; cilia brown with series of greyish fuscous lunules. Hind 

 wino- semihyaline white ; a narrow brown terminal band from just 

 below apex to below vein 2, the cilia with blackish tips beyond the 



dark band. ■ -^i 



$ . Palpi black, brown at tips ; frons black ; fore wing with 



small dark postmedial spots on costa and inner margin ; hind wiug 



with the terminal band maculate, the cilia wholly white. 



Bab. BKiziL, Castro Parana, d in Coll. J). Jones; Paraguay, 



Sapucay {Foster), 1 $ type. Kvj). 28 millim. 



Genus XEROCIRIS. ^^^^ 



Ciris Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Pbil. ii. p. 65 (1863), nee Kocb, 



Ar'achn. 1S50 \:}:-\^:\ ""?'"-■ 



Xerociris, Cockerell, Ent. News Philad. xv. p. 76 (1904) vthoui. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely porrect to well beyond frons, the 

 9nd ioint moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons with large ponited 

 conical prominence; eyes large, round; antenna? of male bipectinnte wUh 

 ritherh.ng branches to apex; tegulaa and thorax clothed chiefly Avith scales, 

 the patagia entirely with hair, the prothorax with divided crest, the meta- 

 thorax with spreading crest; abdomen with large dorsal crest on basal 

 se<Tin«nt Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termcn evenly curved and 

 r.o't erenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of ceU ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole, 6 from the areola ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle ot discoeellulars ; 

 C), 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



4864. Xerociris vilsoni. 



Cms u-ilsonii. Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. ii. p. 65, pi. 3. f 1 (1863); 

 Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 40; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 195. 



(S . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with blue-black ; 



