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obscure maculate postmedial line incurved below vein 3. Hind 

 wing whitish ; the veins, costal and terminal areas suffused with 

 brown, the last broadly suffused at apex, narrowly towards tornus. 

 Underside of fore wing with the diseal area whitish. 



Jlah. Amazons, R. Jurua {Trail), 1 6 type. Exp. 30 millim. 



1691. Maenas azollaB. (Plate XLIII. fig. 18.) 



Palustra azollcs, Berg, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxviii. p. 258 (1877) ; id. Ann, Soc. 

 Ent. Fr. (5) vii. p. 191 ; Burm. Desc. E-ep. Arg. y. p. 454 ; Kirbj, Cat. 

 llet. p. 224. 



(^ . Black-brown ; abdomen dorsally fulvous-yellow except at base. 

 Fore wing with discoidal spot and traces of a curved subterminal 

 line. Hind wing ochreous whitish, the inner area tinged with 

 fulvous-yellow ; the veins darker ; a discoidal lunule; the costal and 

 terminal areas black-brown, with subterminal black spots on veins 

 5 and 2. 



2 . Hind wing black-brown, with some fulvous-yell bw at base of 

 inner area. 



Ilab. Argentina, Buenos Ayres (Leech), 1 d , 4 $ . Exp.^ J 34, 

 $ 46 millim. 



*1692. Maenas breveti. 



Trichosoma breveti,. Oberth. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. p. clxxiv (1882); 

 id. Et. Ent. ix. p. 36, pi. 3. f. 14; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 246. 



S . Pale red-brown ; palpi and frons blackish, the former pale at 

 tips ; antennae black, the shaft crimson above ; femora crimson 

 above ; abdomen ochreous, tinged with crimson at sides, a dorsal 

 fascia of diffused blackish hair and a lateral series of spots. Fore 

 wing rather deeper red-brown, with series of pale-edged black spots; 

 subbasal spots on costa and below cell ; antemedial conjoined spots 

 from costa to submedian fold and above and below vein 1 ; medial 

 spots on costa, median nervure, and inner area ; a discoidal bar ; 

 postmedial spots on costa, beyond lower angle of cell, on vein 2 and 

 inner margin ; a subterminal series of pairs of spots below costa and 

 on veins 5 and 2. Hind wing crimson, the costa ochreous ; an ante- 

 medial black spot on costa and a discoidal spot with another above 

 it on costa ; a broad terminal band narrowing somewhat to tornus ; 

 the inner area slightly streaked with black. 



Hab. Algeria, Oran, type f cj' in Coll. Oberthur. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus PSEUDALUS. 



Type. 

 Tseudalus, Schaiis, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 135 (1896) limonia. 



Proboscis slight ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond frons ; antennae of male 

 bipectinate to apex with short branches, of female serrate ; tibiiB with the spurs 

 short ; abdomen of female with large woolly anal tuft. Fore wing with veins 

 /3,4 from angle of cell; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 

 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4 absent; 

 8 stalked with 6, 7, which are coincident. 



