EPITALARA. 719 



above tomus ; apex tinged with rufous. Hind wing pale fuscous, 

 the costa whitish. 



11(d). Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, type t $ in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 10 niillim. 



Genus EPITALARA. 



Type. 

 Epitalara, Dyar, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 175 (1905) reversd. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect to just beyond tbe frons ; antennas 

 of female ciliated ; tibiae with the spurs long - . Fore wing with veins 3, 4 

 strongly stalked ; 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from 

 beyond 9 ; 10, 11 from cell, free. Hind wing with vein 2 from towards angle 

 of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 6, 7 strongly stalked ; 8 from towards 

 angle of cell. 



In key differs from Apaidia in the fore wing having vein 7 from 8 beyond 

 9 ; 11 not anastomosing with 12 ; hind wing with veins 3, 4 coincident. 



*861 d. Epitalara reversa. 



Epitalara reversa, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 205 (1905). 



$ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with fuscous, the anal tuft ochreous white. Fore 

 wing whitish slightly irrorated with brown ; traces of a minutely 

 waved antemedial line, angled outwards on median nervure ; the 

 apical area mostly dull reddish from middle of costa to tornus, 



Fig. 236. — Epitalara reversa, §. ]-. 



leaving an apical whitish patch with subterminal and apical rufous 

 costal spots on it ; a small blackish discoidal spot ; an indistinct 

 postmedial line, waved and obliquely excurved from costa to vein 1, 

 then incurved ; a dark terminal line with small white spots before 

 it at middle and tornus ; cilia checpiered fuscous and white. Hind 

 wing pale fuscous. Underside of fore wing pale fuscous leaving a 

 whitish apical patch. 



Hah. Fr. Guiana, St. Jean Maroni, type f £ in U.S. Nat. Mus. 

 Exp. 11 millim. 



*8G1 e. Epitalara ccmmixta. 



Paratalara commixta, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 366 (1911). 



Underside of fore wing of male with large elliptical patch of 

 androconia surrounded by silky scaling in and beyond upper angle 



