MACBOPTILA. — APTILOSIA. ol7 



•389*7. Macroptila extensa. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 10.) 



Agylla extensa, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 227 (1912). 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown mixed with some 

 whitish ; legs white tinged with brown ; anal tuft white. Fore 

 wing silvery white, the costa red-brown towards base, the inner 

 area suffused with red-brown to median nervure and vein 2. 

 Hind wing white. Underside of fore wing white, the costal area 

 tinged with red-brown towards base. Fore wing with the upper 

 part of cell much produced and vein 7 from angle. 



Sab. Peru, Carabaya, R. Suambari (Ockendeu), type f J in 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 42 millim. 



390 a. Macroptila fuscilaniata, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 11.) 



J . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous. Fore wing ochreous, the inner area suffused with 

 fuscous brown, the costal edge blackish towards base. Hind wing 

 ochreous, the costal area slightly tinged with brown. Underside 

 of fore wing with the long spatulate scales ochreous with a 

 patch of fuscous scales below them above inner margin ; hind wing 

 with the costal area ochreous, the inner area whitish. 



2 ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with brown ; fore 

 wing silvery white, the inner margin narrowly tinged with brown ; 

 hind wing silvery white with a chalky tinge towards base. 



Hah. Colombia, Yuntas, Rio Siata, Slopes of Cboco, 1 J type, 

 San Antonio (Fasal), 1 J, 1 $, Tolima, 1 6 . Esop. J 40, 

 $ 46 millim. 



Genus APTILOSIA. 



Typo. 

 Aptilosia, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 357 (1911) crocea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, porrect, in male fringed with hair 

 below ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax 

 clothed with rough hair ; abdomen clothed with rough hair and in male with 

 lateral tofts of downturned hair towards extremity. Fore wing long and 

 narrow, the apex somewhat produced, the termen oblique and nearly straight 

 in male ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle in male, 

 stalked in female ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from 

 angle in male, stalked in female ; 6, 7 coincident in male, stalked in female ; 

 8 from middle of cell ; male with a large glandular patch in and above the 

 cell beyond where vein 8 is given off, the subcostal nervure curved down- 

 wards, the lower part of cell clothed with long hair on upperside. 



In key differs from Leptopepla in the hind wing having veins 6, 7 

 coincident in male, stalked in female. 



390 b. Aptilosia crocea. 



Aptilosia crocea, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 358 (1911). 



r? . Head and thorax ochreous yellow suffused with red-brown ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous yellow tinged with red-brown. 



