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squamosus; 3ns parvus, longi-conicus. Antennae erassae, subpubes- 

 centes. Abdomen cristatim), alas posticas paullo superans ; fasci- 

 culus apicalis parvus. Pedes robusti, glabri, breviusculi ; calcaria 

 gracilia, iongissima. Alae antieae lataB, apice subrotundato, margine 

 exteriore convexo vix obliquo. 



Male. Body stout. Proboscis short. Palpi stout, obliquely 

 ascending, as long as the breadth of the head, not rising higher 

 than the vertex ; second joint densely squamous ; third elongate- 

 conical, not more than one-fourth of the length of the second. An- 

 tennae very stout, minutely pubescent. Abdomen crested, extending 

 a little beyoud the hind wings ; apical tuft small. Legs stout, 

 smooth, rather short ; spurs slender, very long. Wings broad. 

 Fore wings slightly rounded at the tips; exterior border convex, 

 hardly oblique ; second inferior vein as near to the third as to the 

 first; fourth moderately remote from the third. 



Chlumetia guttiventris. 



Mas. Cinereo-ferruginea ; abdomen nigra tricris latum, ventre 

 punctis albis trilineato ; alee anticce vix purpurascentes, lineis 

 duabus basalibus fuscis duplicalis, la abbreviata, lineis dua- 

 bus mediis fuscis subdenticulatis, 2a abbreviata, fascia post- 

 media ferruginea, tinea exteriore nigra snbdenticulata cinereo 

 margmata, fascia submarginali nigra indeterminata lineam 

 cineream angulosam includenle, lunulis marginalibus nigris, 

 maculis duabus disco pallide cinereis ; posticce obscure ci- 

 nerece. 



Male. Cinereous-ferruginous, more cinereous beneath. Ab- 

 domen blackish in the disk for half the length from the base; second 

 third and fourth segments with small black erect crests ; under side 

 with a stripe of white dots and with two lateral stripes of white 

 points. Fore wings with a slight purplish bloom ; two double dark 

 brown hardly oblique lines near the base ; the first abbreviated 

 hindward ; two middle slightly denticulated dark, brown lines, of 

 which the outer one hardly extends across half the breadth from the 

 costa ; a ferruginous postmedial band and a more exterior slightly 

 denticulated black line, the latter cinereous-bordered on the outer 

 side; a black very irregular submarginal band partly including a 

 cinereous zigzag line ; marginal lunules black ; a transversely oblong 

 pale cinereous spot between the second double line and the first 

 middle line, and another between the first and the second middle 



