Dec is 9 8.] Dyar : On South American Moths. 237 



type has two pair of spurs. The male is needed to place this genus finally ; compare 

 section C. 



Type anticlea Druce 9 . Only the female is known and Mr. 

 Schaus' specimen is one of this sex. Consequently the male antennae 

 are unknown. 



Genus Semyra Walker. 



1S55 — Semyra Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1130. 



^78 — Eulimacodes M5SCHLER, Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. XXVII, 672. 



Type coarctata Walk. The type species is before me ; also Mr. 

 Schaus' type specimen of Eulimacodes moschleri, which is simply the 

 female of coarctata Walk. S. distincta Moschl., with the same struc- 

 ture and pattern, but larger and 5. bella H.-S. are also before me. 

 6". cardia Schaus begins to depart a little from the generic type. The 

 palpi are a little shorter, not quite attaining the vertex, about as in 

 Prosternidia Saalm., with which this species might be confounded in a 

 synoptic table, though the markings are as in Semyra, 



Genus Prosternidia Saalm. 



18S4 — Prosternidia Saai.mOller, Lep. Madagascar, I, 208. 



Type metallica Saalm. I have not seen this type, but from the 

 characters given, place in the genus provisionally P. eloza Druce 

 {Perola elcea D.), which is before me. 



* * Veins 2 and 3 of fore wings stalked. 



Genus A my dona Walk. 



1S55 — Amydona Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 11 10. 



Type subpunctata Walk. Mr. Schaus has kindly given me Perola 

 dora Druce, which he thinks is the same as subpunctata Walk. The 

 forks of discal vein form a right angle, or a trifle less ; open. Con- 

 generic are A. sucia Schaus {Perola sucia Sch.) and A. platona Schaus. 



Amydona sericea Schaus. 



This does not belong here, but I cannot place it, as the hind legs 

 are gone. It is a curiously contradictory form, the male antennas 

 being distinctly pectinated to the tip, though decreasing rapidly on 

 terminal half, while the fork of discal vein is long and closed by a 

 cross-vein. The palpi are upturned above vertex, third joint long 

 and slender; head rather prominent. Venation normal, vein 1 with 

 many small veinlets toward the margin, but no distinct branch ; veins 

 2 and 3 widely separate, 7 to 9 stalked, 1 1 oblique ; hind wings with 



