CHALEN-ATA. 363 



Genus CHALENATA. 



Type. 



Chalenata, Wlk. xxx. 1001 (1864) micaccella. 



Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd small ; Irons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without 

 crests; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the 

 apes rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate, 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 very shortly 

 stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from well above angle of cell ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apex 

 serrate. 



A. Fore wing with the medial area below and beyond the cell 



suffused with black mesonephele. 



B. Fore wing with the whole medial area suffused with black, ustata. 



5553. Chalenata mesonephele, n. sp. 



(5' . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreoiis white .mixed with some 

 black-brown ; palpi blackish at sides ; fore and mid tibiae and the 

 tarsi blackish, the latter with slight pale rings. Pore wing 

 ochreous white with slight fuscous irroration, the medial area 

 suffused with blackish below and beyond the cell ; a blackish mark 



Fig. 111. — Chalenata mesonephele, cJ. |. 



at base of costa; antemedial line rather diffused, black, angled 

 inwards in cell and on vein 1 ; a small black discoidal spot ; post- 

 medial line rather diffused, black, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 6 and excurved beyond lower angle of cell, then strongly 

 incurved, some slight black striae beyond it from costa ; traces of 

 a dark subterminal line excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of slight dark striae ; cilia ochreous white mixed 

 with brown. Hind wing creamy white ; the underside slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal point and brownish 

 spot on costa towards apex. 



Hub. Aegenxina, Sta. Fe, Ocampo ( Wagner), 1 J type. Exjp. 

 20 millim. 



