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men not extending beyond the liind-wings. Legs smooth, slender; 

 hind tibiae with four rather short spurs. Wings hoary, nearly 

 hyaline, thinly covered with whitish scales, with an indistinct 

 curved cinereous band, and with a broad cinereous whitish-pow- 

 dered exterior border. Fore-wings with the costa like the ex- 

 terior border, and with an interior line. 



Length of the body 6 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



Allied to E. turhida and to E. discalis. 



Brazil. 



Genus Cingilia, n. g. 



Mas. — EloricB a ffinls. Corpus satgracile. Proboscis mediocris. 

 Palpi porrecti, caput sat siiperantes, articulo 3o minimo. An- 

 tennae longiusculse, late pectinatse. Pedes glabri, graciles ; 

 tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor longis. Alae amplae ; an- 

 ticae apice rectangulatae, costa margineque exteriore sub- 

 convexis. 



Male. — Allied to Eloria. Body rather slender. Proboscis 

 moderately long. Palpi porrect, hardly extending beyond the 

 head ; 3rd joint very minute. Antennae rather long, broadly 

 pectinated. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind-wings. 

 Legs smooth, slender ; hind tibiae with four long spurs. Wings 

 ample. Fore-wings rectangular at the tips ; costa and exterior 

 border very slightly convex ; 2nd inferior vein more than four 

 times further from the 3rd than from the 1st. Hind-wings with 

 the 2nd inferior vein hardly twice further from the 3rd than from 

 the 1st. 



Cingilia humeralis. 



Mas. — Alba, subtus nigra, capite ochraceo, thorace fascia antica 

 tenui nigra maculisque duabus humeralibus ochraceis, ab- 

 domine nigro, segmentis ochraceo-marginatis, alis linea ex- 

 teriore undulata e punctis nigris, alis anticis costa ihteriore 

 nigra lineaque interiore vaga e punctis nigris. 



Male. — White, black beneath. Head ochraceous. Thorax 

 with a slender black band in front, and with an ochraceous spot 

 on each shoulder. Abdomen black ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ment ochraceous. Wings with an exterior undulating line of 

 black points; fringe with black points. Fore-wings black along 

 the costa from the base to one-third of the length, where there is 

 an irregular line of black points. 



Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



United States. 



