112 AMATTD.t:. 



Genus SCELILASIA, n. n. 



Lasiosceles, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) iv. p. 345 (1909), nee Type. 



Beth. -Baker, Lep. 1906 erythrozonata. 



Froboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 vertex of head and clothed with long hair, the 3rd moderate ; antennte of male 

 with very short branches dilated at extremity from near base to three-fourths, 

 the apex serrate ; thorax clothed with rough woolly hair ; abdomen with 

 rough hair at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from 

 just above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 2, 3, 4 strongly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; G, 7 stalked ; the area from apex to below middle of cell and 

 submedian fold on upperside clothed with brownish ochreous androconia. 



In key differs from Gymnelia in the hind wing having veins 6, 7 stalked 3 

 stalked with 2. 



385 o. Scelilasia erythrozonata. 



Lasiosceles erythrozonata, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) iv. p. 345 (1909). 



cJ . Head and thorax black-brown with a slight bluish gloss ; 

 pectus in front and tufts of hair on the femora crimson ; abdomen 

 black with crimson dorsal and lateral bands. Fore wing black, the 

 terminal area brownish ; two elongate hyaline spots in end of 

 cell and two shorter spots below end of cell ; four spots beyond the 



Fig. 19. — Scelilasia erythrozonata, rf . }. 



cell between veins 7 and 3, the upper spots elongate, the lowest 

 Avedge-shaped. Hind wing black-brown with two elongate hyaline 

 spots beyond the cell above and below vein 5, the area beyond them 

 and below them to submedian fold brownish ochreous. 

 Rab. Panama, Chiriqui, 1 6 type. Exp. 48 millim. 



Genus GYMNELIA. 



Delete the section Enioche, the species of which are the males of 

 the genus P send osphoi opt era. 



The genus is better distinguished from Cosmosoma by the termeri 

 of hind wing being excised towards tornus. 



