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*1530. Halisidota humosa. 



Lophocampa humosa, Dognm, Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxvii. p. 424 (1893) ; 

 id. Lep. Loja, pi. 11. f. 3. 



$ . Head and thorax orange ; palpi and antennae black ; legs 

 black, the femora fringed with orange hair ; abdomen with the 1st 

 segment orange, the next four black, the terminal three orange ; 

 ventral surface black except terminal segment, on which the black 

 runs to a medial point ; wings whitish, suffused with dull smoky- 

 brown, all the veins black. Pore wing with the base and costa 

 whiter. 



Hah. EcFADOR, Loja. Exjp. 68 millim. Typet in Coll. Dognia. 



*1531. Halisidota triphylia. 



Phregoptera triphylia, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 40 (1896) ; id. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 376, pi. 74. f. 18. 



5 . Head and thorax orange ; palpi and antennae black ; tegulse 

 with the extremity and outer edge brown ; pectus and legs black ; 

 abdomen deep black except the four terminal segments dorsaliy, a 

 lateral series of orange spots ; wings smoky brown, the veins black. 



Hah. Panama, Chiriqui (Trbtsch),. type $ in Coll. Staudingec. 

 Ea-j). 72 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



Genus METAXANTHIA, nov. 



Type, M. vespiformis. 



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

 antenuae of female with short branches ; tibiae with the spurs moderate ; wings 

 semihyaline. Fore wing long and narrow ; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 

 3 from before angle ; 5 from just above angle; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 

 9, 10 stalked ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 

 3 from before angle ; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 from 

 towards end of cell. 



*153'2. Metaxanthia vespiformis. 



Metaxanthia vespiformis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) iii. p. 465 (1899). 



Fig, 94. — Metaxanthia vespiformis, ^ ► \^ 



2 . Head, thorax, and basal half of abdomen black, the last with 

 the terminal half orange, the anal tuft pale yellow. Pore wing semi- 

 hyaline, sparsely clothed with small fuscous scales ; the veins and 

 margins black. Hind wing hyaline, the veins and margins black. 



Hah. Amazons, Villa Nova (Bates), 1 $ type f in Mus. Oxon. ; 

 Peeu, Surumaya. Ea^^. 34 millim. 



