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with white; abdomeu brown with faint whitish segmental bands. 

 Fore wing with the costal area black-brown slightly tinged with 

 grey and with numerous slight pale striae from the costa, defined 

 below by a white fascia bent upwards to termen below apex, the 

 inner area whitish tinged with pink and irrorated with red-brown, 

 the inner and terminal areas with slight dark streaks on the veins ; 

 a slight antemedial line arising from middle of submedian fold, 

 very oblique to vein 1 and angled outwards above inner margin ; 



Fig. 98. — Trogotorna persecfa, §. j. 



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an indistinct oblique diffused medial dark band from cell to inner 

 margin ; traces of an oblique sinuous postmedial line from discal 

 fold to inner margin with slight dark points on the veins ; cilia 

 intersected by whitish streaks on costal half. Hind wing whitish 

 sutt'used with red-brown especially on terminal area ; a slight dark 

 discoidal bar ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous ; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal bar and postmedial 

 line oblique towards costa, incurved and sinuous below vein 3. 



Ab. 1. Much more uniform reddish brown with a grey tinge ; 

 fore wing with the costal area paler, the inner area browner and 

 no white fascia. 



Hah. Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), 3 $ type. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus DROBETA. Tvpe 



Drobeta, Wlk. xv. 1755 (1858) exscendens. 



Proboscis fully developed : palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 oC head and moderately scaled, the 3rd short; frons smooth; eyes large, 

 round; antennae of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like 

 scales, the prothorax without crests, the mesothorax with slight paired crests, 

 the nietathorax with spreading crest; tibia- moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen excurved at middle and excised towards tornus ; veins 

 .'! and ."> from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7,8,9, 10 stalked ; 

 II from cell. Hind wing with veins .'), 4 from angle of cell; 5 nearly fully 

 developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial black patch extending to 

 near inner margin. 



a. Pore wing with the postmedial black patch rounded exscendens. 



h. Fore wing with the outer edge of the postmedial black 



patch strongly incurved below vein 4 melagoiua. 



