THYPaODES. 87 



Sect. II. Mid tibiffi of male without fold .and fringes of scales; antenna of 

 female ciliated. 



*6299. Thyriodes dissimilis. 



Thyriodes flahellum, Dnice, Biol. CenLr.-Am., Het. i. p. 408 (part), nee 



Guen. 

 Marathyssa dissimilis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (8) viii. p. 149 (1911). 



Head and thorax reddish brown, the tips of tegulse, upper 

 edge of patagia and tip of metathoracic crest blackish ; palpi 

 and sides of frontal tuft dark-brown ; pectus grey-brown ; fore 

 coxae black-browii ; legs dark brown with the spurs, the extremities 

 of tibae and the tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen grey- 

 brown with the crests blackish at tips and a white ring before 

 anal tuft. Fore wing grey-brown with slight dark irroration ; a 

 slight sinaous dark subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line black, excurved to below cell, then strongly 

 incurved and bent outwards and sinuous just above inner margin, 

 with triangular chocolate-brown patches beyond it from costa and 

 in the sinus above inner margin; a dark medial shade; reniform 



Fig. i52. — Thyriodes dissimilis, (^ . \. 



large and defined by blackish ; postmedial line black, sinuous, very 

 oblique and defined on outer side by white from costa to vein 6, 

 below vein 3 bent inwards to lower edge of reniform, then incurved, 

 a semi-elliptical patch beyond it on costal area, defined by 

 black, with dentate black mark on its outer edge and some 

 whitish points on costa; traces of an oblique waved subtermiual 

 line with blackish points on it above and below vein 5 and at sub- 

 median fold ; a fine crenulate blackish terminal line. Hind wing 

 fuscous-brown with the basal area whitish ; a whitish and black 

 striga above tornus and fine whitish line at base of cilia. Underside 

 of fore wing with the postmedial line defined on outer side by small 

 white spots, the postmedial points on costa white, a white striga 

 from costa before apex ; hind wing dark brown with the inner area 

 white, whitish points at end of cell, on middle of costa, and in 

 discal fold beyond the cell, a slight oblique line towards tornus and 

 some white on termen near tornus. 



Hah. Costa Eica ; Panama, Qhuiqui {Champion, Bibbe), 2 c5' , 2 5 , 

 Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Colombia, Minca {E. H, Smith), 2 cJ . Exp. 

 32 millim. Type f J in Coll. Druce. 



