1898.] or THE SUBFAMILY PTBAUSTINiE. 631 



frons rounded ; antennsB ciliated ; tibise with the outer spurs 

 short ; abdomen long in male. Fore wing with the apex produced 

 and the outer margin oblique ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 

 7 somewhat curved and approximated to 8, 9, to which 10 also is 

 approximated. Hind wing with the basal half of costa much 

 arched ; veins 3, 4, 5 approximated for some distance ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8 to three-fourths of wing. 



Sect. I. (Desmia). Antennae of male with the shaft excised at 

 middle and with a tuft of scales before the excision. 



Ti/2}e. (1) Des^siia funeealis Hiibn. Pyr. f. 103. U.S.A. 



„ macidalis Westw. Mag. Zool. ix. pi. 2. 

 „ siibdivisalis Grote, Can. Ent. iii. p. 126. 



(2) Desmia tages Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 2, pi. 97. f. D. 



W. Indies ; Brazil. 

 Hyalitis tagesalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 291. 

 Desmia propinqualis Moschl. Surinam, p. 430, pi. 18. f. 37. 



(3) Desmia geminalis Snell. Tijd. v. Eut. 1875, p. 249, pi. xiv. 



f . 5. Colombia ; Peru. 



(4)tDESMiA CEEESALis Wlk. xvii. 339. Jamaica. 



(5)tDESMIA PENTODONTALIS, n. sp. 



Black-brown with a cupreous tinge; palpi white below; 

 abdomen tinged with white. Eore wing with a hyaline spot in 

 cell ; a lunulate spot in end of cell, extending to costa and conjoined 

 to a lunulate spot below the cell which has a whitish mark below 

 it ; a postmedial hyaline band from costa to vein 3 with 5 dentitions 

 on its outer edge with a line beyond them, at vein 3 becoming an 

 obliquely sinuous line. Hind wing with veiy irregular medial 

 hyaline band conjoined at lower angle of cell to an irregular 

 postmedial line arising from an apical patch ; cilia whitish. 



Hah. Ecuador (Abbe Gaujon). Exp. 34 mm. 



Sect. II. Autennse of male slightly excised at middle and without 



tuft of scales. 



(6) Desmia ueeus Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 2, pi. 97. f. E. 



W. Indies ; Brazil. 

 Mdiodes orbalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 192 (var.). 

 f Desmia prognealis Wlk. xvii. 346. 



„ bulisalis Wlk. xix. 928. 

 t ,, divisalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1292. 



.(7)*Desmia intekmicalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 192 ( $ ). 



Mexico ; Brazil. 



