730 SIR G. p. HAMPSOlf — REVISION OF MOTHS [NoV.15, 



(35)*Ltgeopia peognealis Druce, Biol. Centr.-Aru., Het. ii. 

 p. 235, pi. 62. f. 2. Centr. Amer. 



(36)tLTGROPIA SCTBALISTIA, n. Sp. 



6. Head and thorax ochreous and brown; abdomen whitish, 

 with the anal tuft ochreous. Tore wing brownish, mostly suffused 

 with black ; an indistinct curved autemedial line dentate below 

 the cell ; a discoidal spot ; a whitish patch beyond the cell ; a 

 dentate postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side, excurved 

 between veins o and 2, then retracted to below end of cell ; a 

 blackish patch on costa towards apex ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing white, with terminal brown line and apical 

 patch. 



Another specimen has the abdomen more fuscous ; fore wing 

 more uniform brownish ; hind wing yellowish with more brown 

 on term en ; cilia brown at base, white at tips. 



Hab. Peru. Exj). 26 mm. 



Genus 73. Agathodes. 



Agathodes Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 207 (1854). 

 Stenurges Led. Wien. Ent.Mon. 1863, p. 416. 



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

 broadly scaled in front, the 3rd porrect and lying on the hair of 

 2nd joint ; maxillary palpi dilated \^ith scales ; frons flat ; antennae 

 of male with the shaft nearly simple ; raid and hind tibiae clothed 

 with spinous hair on outer side, the outer spurs less than half the 

 length of inner; abdomen long, male with lateral anal tufts and 

 the claspers and anal tuft extremely developed. Fore wing very 

 long and narrow ; the apex produced and the outer margin oblique ; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from lower angle of cell; 7 curved and approximated 

 to 8, 9 for about one-third length ; 10 also approximated to 8, 9. 

 Hind wing with the cell long ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 approxi- 

 mated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



Fig. 73. 



Agathodes ostenialis, S ■ i- (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



Sect. I. Antennas of male with the base of shaft dilated 

 and thickened with scales for a short distance. 



(1) Agathodes designaxis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 209. 



Florida ; S. America. 

 Stenurges floridaUs Hulst, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 156. 



