1S97.] CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHEXSAUGIN^. 653 



vein 2 to anal angle. Underside redder, with a dark patch on 

 disk of fore wing ; hind wing with pale curved postmedial line. 

 Hah. iSt. Martha, Brazil. Eccjp. 20 mm. 



(2)*TosAiE DECiPiENS, Teld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 137. f. 37. Brazil. 



Sect. II. Male with velvety patches of black scales on disk 

 of fore wing below and on disk of hind wing above. 



(3)tTosALB oTiPLAGALis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1265. U.S.A. ; Colombia ; 

 Sijxtrocera noUlis, Grrote, Ann. N.T. Lye. 1876, p. 129. Peru. 

 Asojna anthcedokles, Grote, Tr. E. S. Phil. xv. pi. 2. f. 9. 



Type. (4)tTosALE ptealidoides, "Wlk. xxviii. 447. Brazil. 



Pyralis crassijpes, Wlk. xxxiv. 1232. 

 Torda metamelana, Wlk. xxxv. 1800. 



(5)*Tosale flattalis, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 137. f. 28. Brazil. 



Genus Caecha. 



Carcha, Wlk. xvii. 281 (1859). 



Cceloma, Moschl. Lep. Porto Eico, p. 276 (1890). 



Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint 

 minute; frons with a tuft of hair; antennae minutely ciliated; 

 mid tibiae with thick tufts of scales at middle and extremity ; hind 

 tibiae and tarsal joints slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen with 

 medial and paired lateral anal tufts. Pore wing of male with the 

 costa highly arched at base and bearing a tympanic vesicle ; a 

 glandular swelling below ; the retinaculum annulate, the frenulum 

 greatly thickened and flattened, with a strong lower fork ; the 

 disk with a patch of black scales ; the apex roimded ; the outer 

 angle hooked ; veins 2 and 3 from a point before angle of cell ; 

 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 free. 

 Hind wing viith vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 

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



Fig. 16. 



Carcha hersilialis, c? . f. 

 Sect. I. Hind wing without ridges of scales on inner area. 



Type. (l)tCAECHA heesilialis, Wlk. xvii. 282. W. Indies ; Honduras. 

 f Pyralis dispansalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1228. 

 t „ curtalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1230. 

 Cceioma tortricalis, Moschl. Lep. Porto Eico, p. 277. 

 Tosale moritzi, Eag. Ann. Soc. Eut. Er. 1890, p. 500. 

 Peoc. Zool. Soc— 1897, No. XLIII. 43 



