CINCIA. — MAHENSIA. 701 



vei'tex of head and metathorax with black patches ; antennae yellow- 

 ish white with the basal joint black in front ; abdomen pink suffused 

 with fuscous, the base whitish. Fore wing' pale pink thickly irrorated 

 and in places suffused with black; the veins black; the costal 

 area pinker. Hind wing* of male white, the costal and apical areas 

 suffused with fuscous, of female wholly suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. Cuba, Santiago, 1 9 > Mutijas, (Schaits), 1 <S type. 

 Exp. 6 2d, $ 26milliin. 



*828 b. Cincia muelleri. 



Hypoprepia muelleri, Dyar, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. xv. p. 51 (1907). 



Antennae of male sei'rate. 



cS . Head and thorax fuscous brown, the shoulders with small 

 pale crimson patches ; abdomen fuscous brown with some pale 

 crimson hairs at base of dorsum and crimson patch at extremity. 

 Pore wing fuscous brown, rather thinly scaled, a small pale 

 crimson patch at base of inner area. Hind wing whitish tinged 



Fig. 224. — Cincia muelleri, tf . 



with pale crimson except on terminal area which is suffused with 

 brown. 



Ilab. Mexico, Mexico City (Miiller), type t c* in U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Eoop, 30 millim. 



Genus MAHENSIA. 



Type. 



Malxensia, Fryer, Trans. Linn. Soc., Zool. xv. p. 5 (1912) .. seychellarum. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned and reaching to vertex of head, 

 slender ; antennas of male ciliated ; tibiaa with the spurs long. Fore wing 

 with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; vein 2 from beyond middle 

 of cell, curved at base; 3, 4 stalked; 5 absent; G, 7 stalked; 8, !» absent ; 

 10, 11 from cell; male with a large patch of rufous androconia in end of cell. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from well beyond middle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident, 

 :> absent ; the terminal part of subcostal nervuro arched and the discocellulars 

 short ; vein 7 from well before end of cell ; 8 from middle of cell ; male with 

 a patch of rufous androconia in end of cell on upper ide. 



In key differs from Labobasis, in the fore whig having veins G, 7 stalked. 

 8, 9 absent ; hind wing with veins 2 and 7 from well before angles of cell. 



829 a. Mahensia seychellarum 



kellarum, Fryer. Trans. Linn. Soc, ! 

 i). 

 cS . Head and thorax pale grey ; antenna' brownish; abdomen grey 



Mahensia seychellarum, Fryer. Trans. Linn. Soc, Zool. xv. p. 5, pi. i 

 ff. 2, 3 (1912). 



