1897.] CLASSIFICATION OF TUE OHBYSAUGlIfyE. 647 



tarsus above fringed with hair. Tore wing broad, the costa nearly 

 straight in female, excised beyond middle ia male and with a small 

 triangular fold ; two postmedial tufts of raised scales between 

 veins 2 and 4 and a glandular swelling at base of costa below ; the 

 apex slightly produced and acute ; the outer margin very much 

 exciu-ved at middle ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked in female, in male 7 

 from angle and 8, 9, 10 free from before the angle; 11 anasto- 

 mosing with 12, in female free. Hind wing with the cell short; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle; the discocellulars curved; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle, 7 anastomosing slightly with 8. 



Type. (1)*Tamyra penicillana, Herr.-Schaff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. 

 p. 76, f. 453. Brazil. 



(2)tTAMTEA CUPEINA, n. Sp. 



5 . Differs from penicUlana in the fore wing having a diffused 

 red patch below the cell before the antemedial pale line ; no 

 discocellular spot : the postmedial oblique line straighter, arising 

 from the costa before the apex and with the whole area beyond it 

 bright chestnut-red. Hind wing with the marginal area reddish. 



Hah. Guadaloupe. Exp. 54 mm. 



(3)tTAMTRA iGNiTALis, Wlk. xvi. 77. Erazil. 



Auctorum. 



Tamyrodes -papulalis. Rag. Ann. Soc, Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 475, pi. 7. 

 f. 4. Cayenne. 



Genus CAsrARiA. 



Oasuana, Wlk. xxxv. 1807 (1866). 



Palpi upturned, 4 or 5 times the length of head and reaching 

 far above it, the 2nd and 3rd joints roughly scaled and fringed 

 with long hair below ; antennae of male almost simple ; tibiae and 

 1st joint of hind tarsi fringed with hair above. Fore wing with 



Fig. 10. 



Casuaria armata, (S . \. 



tympanic vesicle at base of costa above with ridged membrane 

 across it ; the costa highly arched at middle, excised beyond 

 middle ; the apex produced upwards and acute ; the outer margin 



