NEPHELOSIA. — AEEVA. 



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449. Nephelosia caecina. 



Liihosia cacina, "Oruce, Biol. OeiUr.-Ain., Het. ii. p. 400, pi. 78. f. 7 (1897). 



2 . Head and thorax grey and fuscous ; abdomen fuscous, the 



anal tuft ochreous. Fore 

 \ving -whitish, the basal 

 half suffused with fuscous 

 and irrorated with black ; 

 a blackish patch below the 

 cell from middle to near 

 tornus running up beyond 

 the cell to vein 6 ; cilia 

 tinged with fuscous. Hind 

 wing fuscous black. Under- 

 side fuscous, with the terminal area of fore wing and apex of hind 

 wing black. 



Hab. Guatemala, San Isidro, IGOO ft, {Champion), 1 $ type, 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. E.vp. 20 millim. 



Fig. 130. — Nephelosia ccecina, J . 



Genus AREVA. 



Type. 



Areva, Wlk. ii. 525 (18.54) laticilia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, clothed with rough hair and 

 exteudiug to just beyond frons ; antenmB of male with long bristles and cilia; 

 tibi£E with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing 

 long and narrow, vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 4, 5 

 stalked ; the discocellulars very oblique ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 

 9 stalked; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell; 3,4 

 shortly stalked ; 5 ab.sent ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with fringe of very long hair on underside from 

 base of median nervure to upper angle, covered by the lobed costa of 

 hind wing ; the upper angle of cell produced, and the discocellulars 

 almost iu line with median nervure. 



450, Areva laticilia. 



Areva laticilia, Wlk. ii. 526 (1854); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 338. 

 Areva jiibata, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 139. f. 52 (1875), 



S . White ; palpi, lower part of frons, vertex of head, and thorax 

 fuscous brown. P'ore wing with the costal edge brown, the inner 



Fig. 131. — Areva laticilia, (^ . 



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area brown, diffused upward to vein 4 and leaving a streak of white 

 below the cell and on part of vein 2, Hind wing slightly tinged 

 with yellow and the termen with brown. 



5 . Fore wing brown below submcdian fold only. 



Hah. Venezuela, 2 $ , 1 J , type, type t juhata in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 40 millim. 



