1897.] CLASSIPICATION OF THE CHEYSAtTGINvE. 657 



purplish -black, and ochreous scales. Fore wing purplish fuscous 

 irrorated with greyish ochreous ; a very oblique diffused greyish 

 line with ridge on its inner side from costa near base to inner 

 margin beyond middle, the costal area beyond it suffused with 

 grey ; an ill-defined submarginal grey line excurved below costa ; 

 a reddish patch above outer angle. Hind wing dark fuscous 

 brown. Underside greyer, with dark ante- and postmedial marks 

 on costa of each wing. 



Hah. Sao Paulo {Jones). Exp. S 26, $ 30 mm. 



Genus STHBKOBiEA. 



Sihenobcea, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 541. 



Palpi upturned, short, smoothly scaled, and not reaching vertex 

 of head; t'rons smooth ; antennae ciliated; tibiae smoothly scaled. 

 Pore wing short and broad ; the costa slightly arched ; the apex 

 rectangular ; the outer margin obliquely rounded ; vein 2 much 

 carved at origin ; lower angle of cell greatly produced by vein 5 

 running along median nervure ; 3, 4, 5 from angle, 4, 5 approxi 

 mated for some distance ; upper angle of cell produced ; 6 from 

 well below upper angle ; 7 from upper angle ; 8, 9 very shortly 

 stalked; 10 from cell; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3 and 5 from angle ; 

 4 absent ; 6, 7 stallied, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Pig. 21. 



Stkenobeea abnormcdis, (J . f. 



T-i/jJe- *SthbnoBjEA abnoemalis, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr. 1890, p. 641. 



Ecuador. 

 Grenus Hxpocosmia. 



ffypocosmia, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr. 1890, p. 70. 



Palpi upturned, slender, and hardly reaching vertex of head, 

 the 3rd joint minute ; frons smooth ; antennae of male thickened ; 

 mid tibise fringed with long hair, a large tuft on 1st joint of 

 tarsus ; hind tibiae fringed with long hair, the tarsal joints with 

 tufts diminishing distally. Pore wing with the costa nearly 

 straight ; the apex rectangular ; male with a small tympanic 

 vesicle at base above ; the costal thickening slightly fringed with 

 hair below ; a fringe of hair from above base of inner margin ; 

 the frenulum rather thickened ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 

 4, 5 from angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; the discoceilulars obliquely 

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



