HOMtEOCERA. NEOTRICHTJEA. 



169 



fore coxa3 with small white points ; 



abdomen black, with narrow 

 yellow segmental bands ; 

 small white subdorsal 

 points on 1st two segments : 

 a white spot on the ventral 

 valve of male; wings hya- 

 line, the veins and margins 

 narrowly black. Fore wing 

 with the base black, witli 

 two minute white points 



on it. Hind wing with the terminal band expanding widely 



between veins 1 and 2. 



Hah. Costa Riga {Underwood)^ Godman-Salvin Coll. Eocp. 



40 millim. 



Fig. 81. — Homa'occra crassa, cf. 



Genus NEOTRICHURA. 



Neotrichura, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 350 (1897). 



Type. 



penatefi. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head ; 

 antennae with the shaft dilated at middle, especially in female, bipectinate, with 

 short branches dilated at extremity ; tibiae with the spurs moderate; thorax 

 clothed with woolly hair ; abdomen with subdorsal tufts of hair on first two 

 segments. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 

 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing of female 

 with the cell very long, vein 2 from near angle ; 3 and 5 absent ; H, 7 froni 

 upper angle; male with vein 2 from angle of cell; the whole apical part oi' 

 costal area bent over, forming a fold on under surface containing flocculent 

 white hair. 



)i38. Neotrichura penates. 



Neotrichura penates, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 350, pi. 72. f. 10 



(1897). 

 Cosmosoma duJc infield ia, Schaus, Journ. New York Eut. Soc. iv. p. 132 



(1897). 



Black ; antenna) white at tips ; frons with blue-green patch : 



patagia with whitish point ; abdomen shot with blue, diffused 



wings 

 hyaline, the veins and 

 margins broadly black. Fore 

 w^ing with discoidal black 

 bar conjoined to costal fascia ; 

 two oblique pale brown isli 

 streaks on middle of inner 

 margin and a short streak 

 on costa beyond middle : 

 the terminal band with 

 crenulate inner edge and 



expanding at tornus and towards apex. Hind wing with the 



terminal band expanding slightly towards apex. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui, Coll. Staudinger, type t ; Brazil, Castro 



Parana, Rio Janeiro (Schaus), 1 cj" 1 $ . Eiy. 46 millim. 



blue-green at base and lateral and sublateral series of spots 



Fig. 82. — Neotrichura penafc 



