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mark forming a black, pale-bordered point ; sub-marginal line 

 blackish, zigzag; marginal lunules black. Hind-wings cinereous 

 brown. 



Length of the body 6 lines; of the wings 12 lines. 



Brazil. 



Genus Gammace, n. g. 



il/fl*.'-r Corpus robustum. Proboscis longiuscula. Palpi por- 



recti, longissimi ; articulus 3us linearis, acuminatus, 2i dimi- 



dio longior. Antennae ciliatae. Abdomen alas posticas sat 



superans. Pedes longiusculi, sat graciles, calcaribus qua- 



tuor longis. Alse latiusculae, non longae ; anticae sub-rotun- 



datae. 



Male. — Body stout. Proboscis rather long. Palpi porrect, 



very long, extending very far beyond the head ; 3rd joint linear, 



acuminated at the tip, more slender than the 2nd, and more than 



half its length. Antennae ciliated. Abdomen elongate-conical, 



extending rather beyond the hind-wings. Legs rather long and 



slender ; hind-tibiae with four long spurs. Wings rather broad, 



not long. Fore-wings slightly rounded at the tips ; exterior 



border slightly convex and oblique. 



Allied to Baniana. 



Gammace magniplaga. 



Mas. — Cinereo-cervina, capite fusco, thoracis tegulis nigricante 

 fuscis, fasciculo apicali nigricante aeneo, alis linea exteriore 

 fuscescente lunulata, linea sub-rnarginali e punctis nigris, 

 alarum anticarum plaga costali magna sub-apicali nigricante 

 fusca albido-marginata, orbiculari parva fused, reniformi 

 magna elongata albido-marginata. 

 Male. — Cinereous fawn-colour, more cinereous beneath. Head 

 brown. Thorax with blackish-brown tegulse, and with an apical 

 tuft of blackish aeneous plumes. Wings with the exterior line 

 brownish, composed of lunules, more distinct on the underside ; 

 a sub-marginal line of black points ; marginal points also black. 

 Fore-wings with a large costal, sub-apical, blackish-brown, whitish- 

 bordered patch ; orbicular mark brown, punctiform ; reniform 

 mark large, elongated, whitish-bordered, adjoining the patch. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 

 Brazil. 



