232 AMATIDJE. 



c? . Head and thorax fulvous yellow ; antenna? blackish at tips ; 

 the vertex of head brownish, the tegulae with brown bars, the 

 patagia with brown streaks ; palpi whitish in front, side of frons 

 whitish ; abdomen fulvous yellow with dorsal blackish lines on 



Fig. 34. — Diptilon aurantiipes, J. \. 



three basal segments. Fore wing hyaline, the veins and margins 

 brown ; a yellow streak below postmedial part of costa ; diffused 

 brown streaks on vein 1 and inner margin ; the terminal band 

 expanding somewhat on apical area. Hind wing hyaline, the veins 

 and margins pale brownish. Underside of fore wing with the 

 fringe of hair on vein 1 yellowish ; hind wing with the costal area 

 fulvous. 



Hub. Brazil, Amazons, R. Maderia, Calama {llcffwanns),\\\v t 

 <$ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 24 millim. 



*812 a. Syntrichura melaEna. (Plate XII. fig. 15.) 

 Syntrichura melaena, Dogn. Ann. Soe. Ent. Belg. li. p. 224 (1907). 

 2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; palpi whitish towards tips 

 in front ; abdomen with the base of ventral surface whitish. Fore 

 wing hyaline, the veins and margins rather narrowly black ; a black 

 discoidal bar. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 black, the costa towards apex and termen to submedian fold rather 

 more broadly black. 



Hub. Peru, Cajon, type f in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 32 millim. 



Page 367. Genus HEREA, insert (svn.) :— 



° > \ J J Type. 



Desmidocnemis, Moschl. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 346 (1872)... prittvitzi. 



814. Herea xanthogaster, insert : — 

 No. 803. Desmidocnemis prittvitzi, which has priority. 



Genus METACROCEA. 



Type. 



Metacrocea, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 173 (1905) postfiava. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned to vertex of head; antennfe of 

 female bipectinate with short branches; tibia? with the spurs short; abdomen 

 with the 2nd segment constricted. Fore wing with the costa highly arched 

 towards apex which is rounded, vein 3 from before angle of cell, 4, 5 from angle ; 

 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 the cell rather long ; vein 2 from long before angle ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from well 

 above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



In key differs from JEthria in the hind wing having the cell moderately long, 

 veins 3, 4 stalked. 



