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beyond its lower extremity between veins 2 and 4. Hind wing 

 hyaline white; the base, costa, and terminal area irregularly 

 purplish black, the costal fascia emitting a tooth on discocellulars 

 and encroached on by a spot above middle of vein 6 ; the terminal 

 band quadrately excised between veins 5 and 2, with a striga 

 between veins 3 and 2 ; black points at lower angle of cell and on 

 middle of vein 1. 



Hob. Ecuador, Loja. Exp. 30 mm. 



(18)tDESMIA ODONTOPLAGA, n. Sp. 



S . Head blackish ; palpi white below ; thorax and abdomen 

 brownish. Fore wing fuscous brown with a cupreous tinge ; an 

 elliptic white spot in and below middle of cell, with a speck beyond 

 its lower point and obscure line from it to inner margin ; a white 

 postraedial patch between veins 2 and 5 conjoined to two small 

 spots between it and costa. Hind wing with large medial white 

 patch not reaching costa and inner margin, its outer side expanding 

 and minutely dentate below vein 5 ; cilia of both wings white at 

 tips. 



Hab. Parana, Lower Amazons (Austen). Exp. 20 mm. 



(19)tDESMiA CHETSEis, n. sp. (Plate XLTX. fig. 28.) 



c? . Orange- yellow ; anal tuft large, with some leaden scales. 

 Pore wing with the base of costa and autemedial line purplish 

 fuscous, the latter obsolescent below vein 1 ; a point in cell and 

 discoidal line ; the terminal third purplish fuscous except on costa, 

 its inner edge rather sinuous. Hind wing with obscure discoidal 

 point and oblique postmedial line ; a purplish-fuscous band on 

 terraen, broad at costa, narrowing to a point above tornus. 



Hab. Area, Venezuela ; Peru. Exp. 32 mm. 



Auctorum. 



^diodes JlebiUalis Gruen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 191. Cayenne. 



Desmia nadialis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1875, p. 250, pi. xiv. ff. 6, 7. 



W. Indies. 

 „ jovealis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1875, p. 252, pi. xiv. lE. 8, 9. 



W. Indies. 

 ^diodes orientalis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii. p. 233, & xxvii. 

 pi. IV. ff. 3, 3a. Celebes. 



De ia viduatalis Moschl. Abb. Senck. Ges. xvi. p. 311. 



Porto Rico. 



-^diodes unipunetalis Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het, ii. p. 261, 



pi. 62. f. 26. Panama. 



G-enus 27. ^Etholix. 



Mtholix Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 437. 



Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint 

 moderately scaled, the 3rd with a short triangular tuft in front ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; antennae slightly longer 

 than the fore wing and ciliated ; tibiae with the outer spurs about 



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