EPISILIA. — NTSSOCNEMIS. 513 



a black discoidal point; a curved postmedial series of black points 

 on the veins ; a terminal series of points ; an oblique brown shade 

 from termen below apex, and another above tornus. Hind wing 

 semihyaline white, with terminal series of fuscous points ; the 

 underside with the costal area sparsely irrorated with black, a black 

 discoidal point and terminal series. 



c? . Ground-colour of fore wing straw- yellow ; the veins slightly 

 defined ; a rufous streak in lower end of cell ; the brown patches 

 on termen more prominent, 



Hab. Ecuador, Loja, 1 5 type f, 1 (5 type f sarjltta, in Coll. 

 Dognin. Exji. 32 millim, 



*892. Episilia aniina. (Plate LXXIII. fig. 29.) 

 Leucania amina, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xli. p. 246 (1897). 



5 . Head pale reddish brown ; thorax brownish grey ; abdomen 

 grey dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing grey, suffused with 

 pale reddish brown except the costal area ; the veins except on 

 inner area defined by slight whitish streaks ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, the veins, costal and 

 inner areas tinged with brown ; a terminal series of brown striae. 

 Underside of fore wing with the disk suffused with ferruginous; 

 hind wing with the costal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Ecuador, Loja, type t $ in Coll. Dognin. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus NYSSOCNEMIS. 



Type. 



-R^A'socwewn's, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 117 (1857) ohcsa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 2nd 

 and 3rd joints clothed with long hair in front ; frons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; antenna; of male bipectinate with rather long branches to apex, of 

 female with short branches ending in a bristle ; head and thorax clothed with 

 thick hair and scales, the pro- and mesothorax with spreading crests ; all the 

 tibiiE with fine spines ; abdomen with lateral tufts of hair towards extremity. 

 Fore wing short and broad ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 froai cell. 

 ■ Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



893, Nyssocnemis obesa. 



Koctua ohesa, Ev. Bull. Soc. Imp. Mose. iii. p. 86, pi. 2. f. 2 (1816) ; 



Stand. Cat. Iicp. pal. p. 185. 

 Hadena eiiersmanni, Led. Zool.-bot. Ver. 1853, pi. 3. f. 1. 

 Hadena ledereri, H.-S. Eur. Schmett. ii. Index, p. 31 (1856). 

 Valeria spilogramma, Rambr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1871, p. 321; Staud.Cat. 



Lep. pal. pp. 168, 255. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown, some of the scales tipped with 

 grey and black ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown tinged 

 with fuscous. Eore wing red-brown with a purplish tinge ; a 

 waved subbasal black line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique 

 antemedial line angled outwards below costa and excurved above 

 inner margin ; claviform more or less prominently defined by black 



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