Dec. 1898.J Dyar : On South American Moths. 235 



wings a rather narrow bright green band crosses the wing at about the middle and 

 runs along internal margin to base ; it is edged on both sides narrowly with light red 

 brown ; width of band about one-fourth the length of wing, a little narrower centrally 

 from the brown outer border becoming broader at that point ; the terminal space is 

 slightly grizzled by pale scales. Expanse, 32 mm. 



Type, one female in the collection of Mr. Schaus, who says that 

 this is the "clitoris" of the Biologia Centrali-Americana. 



\ 2. Fore wing with vein 10 stalked (Euclea). 

 E. di versa Druce. (Semyra diversa D.) 



The figure in the Biologia is poor. The silvery line near internal 

 margin should be a slender zigzag, produced a little along vein 2 and 

 narrowly along vein 1 to base. The ordinary green of the genus is 

 here replaced by dark brown. The pretty species seems to suggest 

 some affinity with Monoleuca in markings. 

 E. copac Schaus. (JVeamiresa copac Sch. ) 



A pretty dark gray species, with ovate, rounded wings. 



Genus Metraga Walk. 



1855 — Metraga Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1129. 



Type perplexa Walk. This species is before me. The genus 

 seems a good one, close to Euclea, but differing in the large palpi, 

 which reach nearly to the vertex of head, and in the convex costa ; 

 vein 11 is distinctly curved toward vein 12 at base ; the discal vein is 

 long forked and the cell closed by a cross-vein. 



Genus Miresa Walk. 

 1855 — Miresa Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1123. 



Type albipuncta H.-S. In this genus the discal vein is long-forked, 

 the limbs connected by a cross-vein outwardly ; but often the upper 

 limb is weak, so that the cross-vein practically replaces it, and the de- 

 ceptive appearance of Hampson's figure is produced (Moths of India, 

 I, 386). 



M. argentea Druce. (Eupalia argentea D.) 



The upper limb of the discal fork is quite strong and distinct ; the 

 palpi are a little longer than normal, just exceeding the front, and the 

 pectinations of antennae are not sharply marked off from the simple 

 portion, the serrations running to apex. This is a generalized species 

 in all these characters, possibly separable generically from Miresa (it 

 would fall in Aster ia Feld). 

 M. argentata Walk. (Nyssia argentata Walk. ) 



