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1370. Tricypha furcata. 



Tricypha furcata, Moschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 655, pi. 9. 



f. 23 (1S77) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 319. 

 M(snoleneura anomala, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1878, p. 57 ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 319. 



Grey-brown ; 1st joint of palpi, back of head, throat, and coxos 

 orange ; abdomen with lateral orange stripes expanding dorsally 

 and reducing the grey-brown to spots on terminal segments. Fore 

 wing with obscure dark-brown waved antemedial, medial, post- 

 medial, and subterminal bands interrupted at the thinly-scaled area. 

 $ . Fore wing with the bands extending to subcostal nervure. 



Hah. Suetnam; Amazons, Eio Purus (Trail), 1 d", 1 $, type 

 anomala. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus PELOCHYTA. 



Type. 



Felochyta, Hiibn. Verz. p. 172 (1827) arontes. 



Sontia, Wlk. vii. 1641 (1856) arontes. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 

 3rd joint well developed ; antenna; of male bipectinate with moderate branches, 

 of female with short branches ; tibias veith the spurs moderate ; abdomen 

 dorsally clothed with rough hair at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 

 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 shortly slalked ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle; 8 from beyond middle of cell. 



A. Abdomen crimson, with black bands nigrescens. 



P. Abdomen orange or yellowish, with black bands. 



a. Head and tegulae orange. 



a^. Frons with pair of black points. 



a^. Fore wing with the veins streaked with black cervina. 



b^. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with black ... cinerea. 



b^. Frons without pair of black points arjntes. 



b. Head and thorax dark brown umbrata. 



1371. Pelochyta nigrescens. 



Eucereon nigrescens, Dognin, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ix. p. clxxv (1891) ; id. 

 Lep. Loja, pi. 8. f. 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 905. 



S . Dark brown ; vertex of head with two crimson spots ; neck 

 with broad crimson ring except above ; metathorax with crimson 

 patch ; abdomen crimson above, with triangular brown dorsal 

 patch on basal segment reduced to spots on terminal, the ventral 

 surface brown. Fore wing with the area in and below middle of 

 cell thinly scaled. Hind wing with the interspaces thinly scaled 

 except towards termen. 



Bah. Ecuador, Loja, type f in Coll. Dognin ; Bolivia, Songo 

 (Garlepp), 1 S; Peru, Chanchamayo. Exp. 44 millim. 



1372. Pelochyta cervina. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 7.) 



Eukalisidota cervina, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 77 (1884); Druce, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 94 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 209. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange ; palpi with black lateral 



