632 SIR G. F, HAMPSOIf — KEVISION OF MOTHS [Nov. 15, 



Sect. III. Antennae of male thickened at one-third and fringed 

 with spines above ; patagia with very long tufts of hair ; 

 fore wing with the base of inner margin lobed and clothed 

 with black scales ; hind wing with the inner margin immensely 

 lobed and thickly clothed with black hair. 



(8) Desmia bajijlalis Gruen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 291. Brazil. 



Glyphodes dermatalis Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 136. f. 23. 



Sect. IV. Antennas of male normal. 



A. Hind wing of male with a fold on inner area containing 



flocculent hair below. 



(9)tDESMiA DiscEEPAifs Butl. A. M. N. H. 1887, ii. p. 117. 



Solomons. 



B. Hind wing of male with a fold at uppor angle of cell. 

 (10)*Desmia pistjsalis Wlk. xix. 927. Brazil. 



C. {^diodes). Hind wing of male normal. 



(11) Desmia euxebealis Guen. Delb. & Pyr. p. 189. S. America. 

 notalis Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 136. f. 4. 

 Hyalea melanalis Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 135. f. 16. 



(12)tDESMIA PAUCIMACULALIS, n. Sp. 



„ sepulchralis Warr. Tr. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 270 (nee 

 Guen.). 



S . Black. Fore wing with small subtriangular hyaline spot in 

 cell and elongate wedge-shaped bar beyond the cell. Hind wing 

 with oblique antemedial hyaline band, not reaching costa, broad- 

 ening at median nervui'e and narrowing to a point at inner margin. 



Hah. Amazons {Trail). Exp. 24 mm. 



(13)tDESMiA BXTBEMA Wlk. viii. 75, Brazil. 



(14) Desmia ploralis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 192. W. Indies; 



Brazil. 

 (15)*Desmia sepulchralis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 190. 



Trinidad ; Brazil. 

 (16) Desmia steigititralis Guen. Delt. & Pyr, p. 193. 



Venezuela ; Brazil. 

 (17)tDESMiA melaletjcalis, n. sp. (Plate XLIX. fig. 27.) 



$ . Purplish black ; palpi at base, pectus, and patches on coxae 

 white ; abdomen blue-black, the first segment with white band, 

 the next two shghtly edged with white, the basal half of ventral 

 surface white. Fore wing with short irregular hyaline streak 

 below base of cell ; a somewhat triangular spot in end of cell ; a 

 slight discoidal lunule ; points above and below base of vein 2 with 

 a striga beyond them ; a band beyond the cell between veins 7 

 and 3, expanding below vein 5, and wdth two small detached spots 



