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Amphigonia, Guen. 

 FociLLA (part) Guen. 

 Amphigonia recurva. 



Focilla recurva, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1530, n. 5 (1858). 



F. consurgens, Walker, Z. c, p. 1531, n. 6 (1858). 



Espiritu Sancto, Western Coast of America, Venezuela. Types 

 in Coll. B. M. 



Walker's so-called variety of his F. recurva is simply the 

 male. The species is nearly allied to A. centuriaUs of Hiibner 

 (Zutr. figs. 295, 296). 



M. Guenee says of his genus Amphigonia that it is based upon 

 three species, which he has not been able to examine at the same 

 time. Probably, if he had, it would have struck him that several 

 of his species of Focilla (placed in the preceding family Focillidae) 

 were congeneric with Amphigonia, and that there was no family 

 distinction between the types of the two genera. 



Ephyrodes, Guen. 



Liviana, Leida and Maltana, Walker ; Zethes and Ephyrodes 

 (part), Walker. 



Ephyrodes cacata. 



Ephyrodes cacata, Guenee, Noct. 3, p. 366, n. 1844 (1852). 



E. omicron, Guenee, I.e., n. 1845 (1852). 



Zethes quatiens. Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1523, n. 2 (1858). 



Ephyrodes implens. Walker, I.e., p. 1588, n. 3 (1858). 



E. exprimens. Walker, I.e., p. 1589, n. 4 (1858). 



E.jurgiosa, Walker, I.e., p. 1590, n. 5 (1858). 



E. scitilinea. Walker, I. c, n. 6 (1858). 



E. comprimens. Walker, I.e., p. 1591, n. 7 (1858). 



Liviana pallescens, W^alker, I. c, Suppl. 3, p. 1035 (1865). 



Leida pallida, Walker, I.e., p. 1036 (1865). 



Maltana thermisioides, Walker, /. c, 5, p. 1975 (1866). 



Para, Bahia, Venezuela, St. Domingo, Chiriqui. In Coll. 

 B. M. 



Galapha, Walk. 

 Thyridospila, Walk, (not Guen.). 



That this is not M. Guenee's genus is evident, for he says 

 that, in Thyridospila, the thorax is narrow, the abdomen long 

 and extending beyond the lower wings, flexuous at the extremity, 

 terminated by a tuft of bifid hairs, which conceal two little 

 smooth and recurved hooks (which remind one somewhat of 

 those of the Forjiculce) ; the intermediate tibise cleft, and bearing 

 a silky membrane covered with scales. The secondaries of the 

 sole species are also said to have two angles. None of the above 

 characters are found in the Thyridospila of Walker, one of the 

 species of which genus appears to be Guenee's Amphigonia isoa. 



