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Genus DOLICHESIA. 



Type. 



Dolichesia, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 362 (1911) falsimonia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to well beyond the frons and slightly 

 fringed with hair below ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenna? of female 

 laminate and with some rough scales on shaft above towards base ; tibias 

 slightly fringed with hair. Fore wing with the costa highly arched, the apex 

 produced to a rounded lobe, the termen obliquely incurved below the lobe ; 

 vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from upper 

 angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9 ; 10 from cell ; 11 anastomosing with 

 12. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent; 6, 7 coincident ; 

 8 from middle of cell. 



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

 coincident. 



*72S c. Dolichesia falsimonia. 



DoUchesia falsimonia, Schaus, A. M. N.H. (8) vii. p. 362 (1911). 



5 . Head and thorax pale red-brown ; pectus and base of legs 

 white ; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface white towards base. 

 Fore wing grey suffused with red-brown ; an oblique dark brown 

 line from lower angle of cell to inner margin with a pale grey band 

 before it indistinctly extending to costa ; an oblique dark brown 

 line from discal fold towards termen to inner margin with some 

 pale grey before and beyond it ; a terminal series of minute black 



Fig. 202. — Dolichesia falsimonia, §. 1- 



spots ; cilia black with white points at base towards apex and 

 tornus, a white patch at middle and white tips towards tornus. 

 Hind wing crimson with terminal dark brown band, broad at costa 

 and narrowing to a point at vein 1. Underside of fore wing and 

 costa of hind wing dark brown. 



Hah. Costa Rica, Sixola R. (Schaus), type f $ in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. JExj). 18 millim. 



*728 d. Dolichesia lignaria. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 2.) 



DoUchesia lignaria, Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 195 (1913). 



S. Head and thorax pale rufous; abdomen crimson, the anal 

 tuft black-brown above, the ventral surface pale rufous. Fore 

 wing pale rufous irrorated with darker brown scales ; indistinct 

 oblique antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines formed by diffused 

 black-brown scales from the cell and vein 4 to inner margin ; cilia 



