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1433. Opharus astur. 



Noctiia astur, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 120, B (1779) ; Draco, Biol. Centr.- 



Am., Ilet. i. p. 99 ; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 207. 

 Camles albicans, Wlk. iii. 7^0 (1855). 



Carales maculicollis, Wlk. iii. 730 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 207. 

 Halisidota pustulata. Pack. Rep. Peabody Acad. i. p. 63 (1869) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 211. 



Head and thorax white ; palpi with black patches on the joints and 

 some orange at extremity of 2nd, antennae brown, black points on 

 vertex of head, on tegulae, and two on patagia, shoulders with black 

 streaks, the patagia and thorax tinged with brown ; legs orange and 

 white with some fuscous spots ; abdomen orange with dorsal, two 

 lateral, and sometimes a ventral series of black spots. Fore wing 

 white, with pairs of irregular dentate brown lines with brown suffu- 

 sion between them ; a subbasal pair from costa to submedian fold ; a 

 curved antemedial pair, conjoined in cell and submedian fold to 

 the medial pair, which are angled inwards to meet them ; a similar 

 band at end of cell from costa to median nervure, where it is joined 

 to the medial and postmedial pairs of lines ; a similar terminal band, 

 narrowing at vein 2 and ending at vein 1 ; short black streaks in 

 and below middle of cell and on the base of veins arising from its 

 angles. Hind wing semihyaline whitish ; a terminal brown band 

 with irregular inner edges narrowing to a point at vein 1, and with 

 some obscure whitish spots on it between veins 5 and 2. 



Hah. Mexico (Salle), 2 J , Jalapa (ffoege), 3 c? , 1 5 , Coatepec 

 (Brooks), 2 2 } ^era Cruz, 2 (^ , Jalisco (Schumann), 1 2 ? Misantla 

 (Trujillo), 2 (5; Guatemala (Rodriguez, Champion), 3 $; Costa 

 EiCA (Underwood), 1 $ ; Panama (Ohampion), 3 5 ; Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. ; Colombia (Dohrn), 1 cT ; Venezuela, 1 d* type albicans : 

 Brazil, 1 $ type maculicollis, Up. Amazons. Exjy. 50-66 millim. 



1434. Opharus polystrigata, n. sp. (Plate XL. fig. 1.) 



9 . Whitish ; palpi yellow, black at sides towards base ; frons 

 and vertex of head with black patches edged with yellow; antennae 

 yellow ; tegula? and patagia edged with yellow, the former with 

 black patch, the latter irrorated with black ; metathorax edged 

 with yellow and with a black spot ; pectus and legs orange tinged 

 with brown ; abdomen orange with dorsal, lateral, and ventral series 

 of black patches. Fore wing thinly sealed, thickly spotted and 

 striated with fuscous brown ; a very obscure subterminal diffused 

 whitish line ; the termen pale brown with a series of minute striae 

 across the veins. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, the veins brown; 

 the terminal area suffused with brown. 



Hab. Bolivia, Chaco (Garlepp), 1 9 type. Exp, 52 millim. 



Genus HEMIHYALEA, nov. 



Type, H. cornea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with hair, the 3rd moderate, naked, porrect ; antennae long, with moderate 

 branches in male, with short branches in female ; tibiae with the spurs moderate ; 



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