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bent outwards to tornus. Hind wing fuscous, the veins darker ; 

 an indistinct curved dark postmedial band. 



Hah. Ecuador, 1 5^ ; Brazil, Casa Branca, Rio Janeiro (C. BogJc)^ 

 Sao Paulo (D. Jones), 2 $ , N. Friburgo, 1 J type, 1 $ . E.vp, 

 52 millim. 



1441. Hemihyaiea diminuta. (Plate XXXYIII. fig. 19.) 

 Halesidota diminuta, Wlk. iii. 741 (1855) ; Kirbj, Cat. Het. p. 212. 



<5 . Head and thorax brown ; basal joint of antennae, back of 

 head, and patagia with small orange spots ; coxa) orange ; abdomen 

 orange, with dorsal series of black spots, the ventral surface brown, 

 with the anal tuft orange. Fore wing brown, an orange point at 

 base ; antemedial, postmedial, and subterminal minutely waved 

 dark lines with series of orange spots on them, the 1st angled in 

 cell and with a double spot on vein 1 only, the 2nd excurved 

 beyond lower angle of cell, and the spots obsolescent towards costa, 

 the last with some of the spots often obsolete. Hind wing paler 

 brown. 



Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 S type. Exp. 44 millim. 



1442. Hemihyaiea hyalina. 



Phcsgoptera hyalina, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) iv. p. 87 (1889) ; id. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 375, pi. 74. f. 16 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 212. 



2 . Head and thorax yellowish white ; antennae ochreous ; 

 abdomen white, the hair on dorsum pale orange. Wings hyaline ; 

 fore wing with the costal and inner areas clothed with white scales ; 

 both wings with the cilia white. 



Hah. Mexico, Guerrero {H. H. Smith), 1 $ type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Exp. 62 millim. 



1443. Hemihyaiea alha. 



Phcsgoptera alha, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 95, pi. 10. f. 9 (1884) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 214. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen dirty white ; antennae orange. 

 Fore wing semihyaline white, the veins and margins with some- 

 what silky white streaks. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and 

 termen clothed with white scales. 



Hah. Mexico, Hidalgo {TrvjiUo), 1 $, Orizaba; Guatemala 

 (^Rodriguez), 1 5 , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Panama, Chiriqui, type t 

 in Coll. Staudinger. 



Genus PSEUDOPHARUS, nov. 



Type, P. amata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex oi" bead, the 

 8rd joint short, porrect ; antenna; of female with short branches ; head and 

 thorax clothed with rough hair ; tibiae with the spurs short ; abdomen dorsally 

 clothed with hair at base. Fore wing with vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 

 5 from just above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell ; 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 from near angle of cell. 



