ROBINSONIA. NEIDALIA. 13! 



above vein 4 and wedge-shaped patches above veins 2 and 3 ; a 

 white streak on middle of inner margin. Hind wing white with 

 fuscous streaks on veins 2 and 1, the former expanding into a patch 

 on termen ; veins 3 and 5 shortly stalked. 



Hah. Brazil, K-io Janeiro, type t c? in Coll. Schaus. Exp. 46' 

 millim. 



Sect. II. Fore wing short and broad. 



*1202. Robinsonia formula. 



BoUnsonia formula. Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. v. p. 241, pi. 4. f. 3 

 (1865) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 235. 



(S . Head and thorax brown ; vertex of head, tegulae, and patagia 

 with large white patches ; back of head and throat with orange 

 spots ; legs fuscous striped with white ; abdomen orange-red. Fore 

 wing brown, with large fusiform white patch below the cell almost 

 conjoined to a small similar spot above tornus ; an oblique band 

 from apex to vein 3 conjoined to a large triangular patch arising 

 in end of cell. Hind wing white ; the tornus yellowish ; cilia 

 fuscous. 



Hah. Cuba, in Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus NEIDALIA, nov. 



Type, N. villacresi. 



Proboscis absent; palpi obliquely upturned, not reaching vertex of head; 

 antennee of male serrate and fasciculate; head, thorax, abdomen, and legs 

 clothed with rough hair ; tibiae with the spurs short. Fore wing with vein 3 

 from before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 

 10, 11 stalked, 10 from beyond 7. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle 

 of cell ; 4 absent ; 6, 7 coincident and 8 strongly stalked with them. 



*1203. Neidalia villacresi. 



Idalus villacresi, Dognin, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxviii. p. 238 (1894) ; id. 

 Lep. Loja, p. 103, pi. 11. f. 2. 



<S . Orange-red ; palpi, fore femora above, the femoro-tibial 

 joints and tarsi black; ventral surface of abdomen with diffused 



blackish bands. Fore wing with very oblique black line from 

 below costa beyond middle to above inner margin before middle, 

 crossing an ochreous white streak on median nervure, expanding 

 in end of cell and with a patch on it below the cell, the veins 

 beyond it black. Hind wing with a slight crimson tinge. 



Hab. Ecuador, Zamora, typef (^ in Coll. Dognin. Exi?. 4(> 

 millim. 



