THYROMOLIS. HYPERANDRA . 



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Striated with red-brown, with yellow spot at base of eosta and short 

 streak on vein 1 beyond middle, and with slight black marks at base 

 of vein 1 and on inner margrin before middle : the rest of the wing 



Fig. 52. — Thyromolis pijthia, (^ . }. 



yellow hyaline, with dark brown point at lower angle of cell and a 

 large round apical purplish-grey patch irrorated with brown and 

 with diffused black centre ; the grey area with yellow edges. 

 Hind wing yellow, with fuscous suffasion on costal area, the inner 

 area deep orange. 



Hah. Bolivia, Rio Songo {Garlepp), 2 J. Exp. 34 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Druce. 



Genus HYPERANDRA, nov. 



Type, H. appeiidiculata. 



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

 antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate ; tibiae with the spurs minute ; 

 abdomen dorsally clothed with hair towards base Fore wing with vein 2 

 curved ; 3 from close to angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 

 iO stalked, 10 from 8 just before 7 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 

 from close to angle of cell ; 3, 5 shortly stalked ; 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 from middle of cell ; the costa very strongly lobed at middle, covering 

 very large patches of androconia extending into cell on underside of fore wing 

 and to median nervure of hind wing ; the termen deeply indented below 

 vein 2 and its apical part thickly clothed with large scales above. 



*1310. Hyperandra appendiculata. 



Creatonotiis appendiculatus, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. ff. 475, 476 

 (1856) ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 171. 



S . Head brown, the vertex orange ; antennae whitish at tips ; 



thorax brown, the tegalaB 

 and base of patagia and 

 mesothorax pure white ; 

 abdomen orange, the ex- 

 tremity and ventral surface 

 pure white. Fore wing 

 brown, slightly purplish 

 towards the terminal yel- 

 low band extending from 

 Fig. b^.—Hyperandra appendiculata, ^ . \, \^q\q^^ apex to below vein 2. 



Hind wing yellow. 

 Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, Coll. Schaus. Exp. 34 millim. 



