PUEIUS. MALLOCEPHALA. 



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blackish at sides ; fore coxjc crimson at sides, the knees and tarsal 



joints banded with black ; 

 abdomen with black and 

 crimson dorsal bands, the 

 ventral surface pale brown. 

 Fore wing pale brown 

 strongly irrorated with 

 black, series of black points 

 on the costa and veins ; 

 diffused blackish spots at 



Fig. 184. — Purius pilumnia, ^. 



angles 



of cell. Hind 

 wing semihyaline brownish white. 



$ . Much darker brown ; fore wing more evenly and finely 

 striated ; hind wing brown. 



Hah. Costa Rica; Panama, Chiriqui; Venezuela, 2 6 type 

 sordidus; Siteinam ; Cayenne ; Amazons, Manaos. Exj). 38 millim. 



Genus MALLOCEPHALA. 



Type. 



Mallocephala, Blanchard, Gay's Hist. Chile, Zool. vii. p. 68 (1852). . rubripes. 



Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, the 2nd joint reaching as far as frontal 

 tuft and clothed with long hair, the 3rd long and smoothly scaled ; antennae 

 of male bipectinate with long branches, of female biserrate ; head, thorax, and 

 abdomen clothed with long hair ; hind tibiae with the medial spurs absent. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 free. 

 Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. Female with the wings much aborted. 



A. Femora and abdomen above pinkish rubripes. 



B. Femora and abdomen above yellowish latior. 



0. Femora above grey deserticolor. 



*2025. Mallocephala rubripes. 



Mallocephala rubripes^ Blanchard, Gay's Hist. Chile, Zool, vii. p. 68, pi. 4, 

 f. 7 (1852). 



cJ . Reddish brown ; palpi and femora above pink ; abdomen 

 pinkish above with dark dorsal line. Fore wing uniform reddish 

 brown. Hind wing paler. 



Hah. Chile, Coquimbo. Exp. 34 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



2026. Mallocephala latior. (Plate XLIX. fig. 10.) 



Laora latior, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 5 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 275. 

 Laora tegulata, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 275. 

 Laora angustior, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 6 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 275. 

 Laora obscura, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1882, p. 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 275. 



cJ . Dark reddish-brown more or less strongly tinged with 

 fuscous ; femora fulvous above ; abdomen with diffused fulvous 



