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AECTIADiE. 



Sect. II. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. 



A. Antennse of male bipectinate, the branches ending in a bristle, the apical 

 part serrate. 



754. Prepiella pexicera. 



Frepiella pexicera, Schaus, J. -N. Y. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 215 (1899). 



Head and thorax ochreous ; antennae blackish ; abdomen ochreous, 



the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface ochreous. Fore wing 

 ochreous ; two black points 

 at base ; the veins and cell 

 streaked with black from 

 near base to the medial line, 

 which is acutely angled on 

 median nervure and con- 

 nected by a streak with the 

 postmedial line, which is acutely dentate just above this point and 

 ends at tornus ; a crimson discoidal spot : the veins of terminal area 

 streaked with black to near termen ; a fine terminal line. Hind 

 wing crimson, with small black apical patch, 



Eah. Venezuela, Aroa, 1 ^ • Exp. 14 millim. Type f in Coll. 

 Schaus. 



Fig. 271. — Prepiella j)exicera, (^ . 



B. Antennae of male with bristles and cilia. 



a. Fore wing with the antemedial line evenly curved aurea. 



b. Fore wing with the antemedial line highly waved sesapina. 



755. Prepiella aurea. 



Meepha aurea, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 54; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 291. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange-yellow; antennae blackish ; 



fore tibiae banded with blue-black ; abdomen with black ventral 



bands. Fore wing golden yellow ; a curved blue-black antemedial 



line ; a streak ou costa from 

 base to the antemedial line 

 and streaks in and below cell 

 and on vein 1, not reaching 

 the base or line ; a crimson 

 spot in end of cell ; a blue- 

 black postmedial line pro- 

 duced outwards to a long 

 tooth on vein 5 and with 



short black streaks on the veins beyond it; a terminal black line. 



Hind wing crimson, with small black apical patch. 



$ . Hind wing with a black line on termen from the apical patch 



to vein 2. 



Hah. Venezuela, Aroa, 1 5 in Coll. Schaus; Amazons, R. Manhes 



(Trail), 1 c? type, Eontcboa, 1 $ . Exj). 14 millim. 



Fig. 272. — Frejjielia aurea, cJ , 



