1897.] CLASSIFICATION OP THE CHBTSAUGIN^. 659 



(3) Xantippe bichobdalis, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 537. 



Brazil. 

 fArta rubricalis, Warr. A. M. N, H. (6) vii. p. 498. 



Genus Paeachma. 



Parachma, Wlk. xxxiv. 1263 (1865). 



Zazaca, Wlk. xxxiv. 1269. 



Perseis, Eag. Ann. Soc. Eat. Fr. 1890, p. 538. 



Palpi upturned, thickly scaled, and hardly reaching vertex o£ 

 bead ; frons rounded ; antennae o£ male ciliated ; mid tibite with 

 large tufts of scales at middle and extremity and a large tuft on 

 the 1st tarsal joint; hind tibiae very long in male and roughly 

 scaled, the tarsal joints with tufts of scales diminishing distally ; 

 the spurs short. Fore wing with the apex rectangular ; veins 4, 5 

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

 Hind wing with vein 2 from near angle of cell ; 3 absent ; 4, 5 

 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



Fig. 24. 



Parcwhma ochracealis, cJ . \. 



Sect. I, Fore wing with vein 3 stalked with 4, 5. 



Type. (l)tPAEACHMA ocHEACEALis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1263. U.S.A. 



■\Zazaca auratalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1269. 

 Asopia culiculalis, Hulst, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xiii. 167. 



(2)tPAl{ACHMA LUTEALXS, U. Sp. 



Head and thorax yellow marked with fuscous ; abdomen yellow 

 suffused with rufous above ; the tufts on hind tarsi rufous. Fore 

 wing yellow irrorated with fuscous and red scales ; a broad 

 medial purplish-grey band with red edges indented in cell and 

 toothed just below "it ; the area near outer angle suffused with 

 purplish grey ; a marginal red line. Hind wing pale, with some 

 reddish suffusion near lower angle of cell and on outer margin ; 

 traces of a postmedial line. 



Eab. Sao Paulo (Jones). Exp. S 16, $ 16-20 mm. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with vein 3 absent. 



(3)tPAEACHMA METEETTHEA, n. sp. 



Purplish grey ; head and patagia marked with yellowish white ; 

 palpi and tarsi ringed with yellowish white. Fore wing with 



