1897.] 



CLASSIFICATION 0¥ THE CHEYSATTGINiE. 



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■wing with the costa nearly straight ; the apex produced and acute ; 

 the outer margin excurved at middle ; male with a fringe of hair 

 from basal part of costa below met by a fringe of hair from 

 median nervure ; the retinaculum hairy ; vein 3 from before angle 

 of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8 stalked ; 

 9 absent ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle 

 of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 free. 



Fig. 2. 



Psectrodes abrasalis, (^. {. 

 Type. (l)tPsECTEODES ABRASALIS, Wlk. xvi. 39. Mexico ; Brazil. 



Tamyra splendens, Teld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 137. f. 15. 

 Psectrodes Tierminialis, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Ti-. 1890, p. 488. 



(2)tPsECTE,0DES iLLAPSALis, Wlk. xvi. 50. Brazil. 



Genus AbjEea. 



Abara, Wlk. xvi. 76 (1858). 



Palpi porrect, straight, and extending about three times the 

 length of head, fringed with long hair above and below ; frons 

 with a sharp tuft ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; tibise 

 smooth. Fore wing with the costa usually arched at middle ; the 

 apex rectangular ; the outer margin excurved at middle ; male 

 with a small tuft of hair at middle of costa above ; a glandular 

 swelling in cell below covered by fringes of hair from subcostal 

 and median nervures ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7 absent ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 free. 

 Hind wing with the outer margin slightly angled at vein 2 ; 3 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Fig. 3. 



AhcBra macialis, c? . \. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with veins 4, 5 well separated at origin. 



(l)tAB^EA MACTALis, Wlk. xvi. 76. Brazil. 



