1897.] CLASSIFICATION OS THE CHKYSAUGIN^. 649 



tympanic vesicle; a glandular swelling at base of costa below, 

 fi'inged with hair ; the retinaculum annular ; the frenulum 

 thickened and flattened ; A'eins 2, 3 from well before angle of cell ; 

 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. 

 Hind wing with the outer margin angled at middle ; the costa 

 arched ; the cell short ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Type. *OiiTCTOPLEUEA AECTJATALis, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, 

 p. 496. Brazil. 



Genus Salobeena. 



Salohrena, Wlk. xxviii. 446 (1863). 



(Ectoperia, Zell. Verb, zool.-bot. Gles. Wien, 1875, p. 331. 



Chjdonopteron, EHey, Ent. Am. iii. p. 287. 



Palpi upturned, about twice the length of head and reaching 

 well above the vertex, fringed with long hair above ; frons 

 rounded ; antennae somewhat annulate ; mid legs with large tufts 

 of scales at middle and end of tibiae. Fore wing of male with a 

 tympanic vesicle at base of costa, usually with two excisions 

 beyond it ; the retinaculum annular ; the frenulum much 

 thickened and with a short lower fork ; vein 3 from before angle 

 of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 

 10, 11 fi'ee. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 

 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Fig. 12. 



Salobrena excisana, (^ . |. 



Sect. I. {Salohrena). Mid tarsus of male with a large tuft of scales 

 on 1st joint ; fore wing with two deep excisions in costa. 



Type. (l)tSALOBKENA EXCiSANA, Wlk. xxviii. 446. Brazil. 



„ genualis, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 137. f. 35. 



(2)*Salobebna CTniSAiis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 192, 

 pi. 59. f. 20. Mexico. 



(3)*SALOBE.E]!fA PEOPYLEA, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 193, 

 pi. 59. ff. 21, 22. Mexico. 



(4) Salobeena TECOMiE, Eiley, Ent. Am. iii. p. 288, ff. 132, 133. 

 U.S.A. ; W. Indies ; Brazil ; Buenos Ayres. 



(5)*Salobeena gibbosa, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 137. f. 36. Bogota. 



