128 AECTIADJE. 



Genus PH^OSIA, nov. 



Type, P. lutea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond frons, which is 

 rounded ; antennae of male with bristles and cilia; tibise with the spurs niodei-ate ; 

 abdomen clothed wiLh rough hair. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa 

 arched towards apes, the termen short ; vein 2 from middle of cell, curved near 

 base ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 absent ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole, 7 from end of areole, 11 anastomosing with 12. 

 Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3, 4 on a long stalk ; 5 absent ; 6, 

 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell. 



249. Phseosia lutea. 



Lithosia lutea, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 131 (1885) ; Kirby, Cat 

 Het. p. 338. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with fuscous. Fore 



wing pale fuscous, whiter 

 towards costa, on which 

 there is a fuscous streak 

 towards base. Hind 

 vring fuscous, the cilia 

 whitish. 



Hah. Guatemala, S. 

 Gerommo {Champion), 2 

 Tig. 7-i.—Phceosia lutea, (S- \- c? , type, Godman-Salvin 



Coll. £^1,73. 26-30 millim. 



Subsp. 1. intermedia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 131 (1885); Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 338. 



Fore wing paler : hind wing white tinged with fuscous. 

 Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), Cordova (liumeli), type, Yera 

 Cruz (H. H. Smith), Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 28 millim. 



\ Genus SOZUSA. 



Type. 



Sozusa, WUgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 146 (1863) scutellata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi short, porrect, not reaching beyond frons and 

 roughly scaled; antennas of male with long bristles and cilia; tibiffi with the 

 spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed with rough hair. Fore wing long and very 

 narrow, the costa straight, the apex rounded, the termen short, the inner margin 

 arched near base ; vein 2 from towards angle of cell, oblique ; 3, 4 coincident ; 

 5 absent ; 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 11 anastomosing with 12 and either stalked with 

 10 or from cell ; male with a fringe of scales on costal nervure below. Hind 

 wino- with vein 2 from long before angle of cell ; 3, 4 on along stalk ; 5 absent ; 

 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from middle of cell ; male with an elliptical patch of black 

 androconia below middle of costa. 



250. Sozusa scutellata. 



Lithosia scutellata, WUgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 45 (1860) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 318. 

 JAihosla donogla.uca, Wlk. xxxi. 225 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 327. 

 Lithosia naialica, Moechl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxiii. p. 354 (1872) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 32if. 



