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Genus SCODIONYX. 

 Scodionyx, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 397 (1899) 



Type. 

 mystica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, the 2nd joint fringed with hair 

 in front, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; ejes large, rounded ; antennee of 

 male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair only and without crests; fore tibiae short with strong curved claw on 

 inner side ; mid tibiae spined ; hind tibiae with a few spines between medial 

 and terminal spurs ; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without 

 crests. Fore wing broad, the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 6 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



*8091. Scodionyx mystica. 



Scodionyx mysticus, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 397, pi. 5. f. 2 (1899) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 355. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing ochreous 

 slightly tinged with rufous ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 brown striga from costa ; antemedial line represented by a brown 

 striga from costa, then ahnost obsolete, curved and slightly waved ; 



Fig. €9. — Scodionyx mystica, c?. \. 



claviform and orbicular absent; reniform pale brownish, rather 

 quadrate and with its lower extremity produced ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, brownish, very minutely waved, excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, then slightly incurved ; subterminal line pale slightly 

 defined by brown on each side, minutely waved, excurved from 

 costa to vein 4, then oblique, the costal area beyond it with a slight 

 brownish tinge ; a slight waved red-brown terminal line. Hind 

 wing ochreous white, the terminal area very faintly tinged with 



