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Genus CHALENATA. 



type. 



lenata, Wlk. xxx. 1001 (1864) 



Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 



aboul tomiddleof frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd small; irons smooth; 



large, round; thorax clothed almost entirely with and without 



crests tibiae si >thly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with 



apes rounded, the termen evenlj curved and nol crenulate, veins .'land 5 from 

 near angle of nil; 6 from upper angle; '.> from 1<> anastomosing with 8 to 

 form tin' areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 1 very shortly 

 stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from well above angle of cell ; 6, 7 from 

 tipper augle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. 1. Antenna- of male bipectiuate with moderate branches, the apex 

 rerrate. 



A. Fore wing with the medial area below and beyond the cell 



suffused with black mesonepkele. 



B. Fore wing with the whole medial area suffused with black, ustata. 



5553. Clialenata mesonephele, n. sp. 



<$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochrcous white mixed with some 

 black-brown; palpi blackish at sides; fore and mid tibiae and the 

 tarsi blackish, the latter with slighl pale rings. Fore wing 

 ochreous white with slight fuscous irroration, the medial area 

 suffused with blackish below and beyond the cell; a blackish mark 



Fig. 111. — Chad sonephele, J- I- 



at base of costa ; antemedial line rather diffused, black, angled 

 inwards in cell and on vein I : a small black discoidal spoj ; p 

 medial line rather diffused, black, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 6 and excurved beyond lower angle of cell, then strongly 

 incurved, some slight black striae beyond it from costa; traces of 

 a dark snbt erminal line exenrved below vein 7 and at middle 

 terminal series of Blight dark stria-; cilia ochreous white mixed 

 with brown. Hind wing creamy white; the underside slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidaJ point and brownish 

 snot on costa im\ aids apex. 



Hub. Argentina, Sta. Fe, Ocampo (II' Id lV i>o. /J.cj>. 



20 millim. 



