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CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Body slender. Head with two porrect acute very long- 

 gonial tufts, which project far beyond the face. Proboscis short. 

 Falpi slender, squamous, obliquely ascending, not rising higher than 

 the vertex; third joint lanceolate, about half the length of the 

 second. Antennae setose. Abdomen extending much beyond the 

 hand wings; apical tuft small. Legs smooth, slender; spurs 

 slender VVings elongate, rather broad. Fore wings slightly 

 rounded at the tips; costa slightly convex, with a recumbent squa- 

 mous tuft 111 the middle ; exterior border slightly convex, rather 

 oblique. ° J * 



Candisa aubiflavalis. 

 Mas. Aurato-flava; caput et thorax cupreo-fusca ; al& antica 

 basi, costa, fascia lata obliqna margineque exteriore cuprea- 

 fuscis; posticce cupreo-fusco marginata. 

 Male. Gilded yellow. Head, palpi, antenna and thorax 

 cupreous-brown. Fore wings cupreous-brown at the base, along the 

 cosia, about the tips and along the exterior border, and with a broad 

 cupreous-brown band which extends from the middle of the costa 

 to near the end of the interior border. Hind wings cupreous-brown 

 along the exterior border. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 

 9 lines. ° 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



Genus DEBA. 

 Teem. .Corpus robustum. Proboscis longa, gracilis. Palpi 

 robusti, squamosi, erecti, apice subfasciculati, verticem paullo 

 superantes; articulus 2us subarcuatus; 3us brevissimus. Antennae 

 robustae, serratae, basi contortae et late pectinate. Abdomen alas 

 posticas sat superans. Pedes graciles; calcaria longa, gracilia. 

 Ala3 auticae elongates, angustae, margine exteriore subconvexo per- 

 obliquo. 



Female. Body stout. Proboscis long, slender. Palpi stout, 

 squamous, erect, rising a little higher than the vertex, slightly tufted 

 at the tips ; second joint slightly curved ; third very short. Antenna? 

 stout, seriated, much contorted and broadly pectinated near the 

 base. Abdomen extending somewhat beyond' the hind wings. Legs 

 smooth, slender; spurs long, slender. Fore wings elongate, acute, 

 much longer and narrower than the hind wings; exterior border 

 slightly convex, very oblique; first, second and third inferior veins 

 nearly contiguous at the base; fourth moderatelv remote from the 

 third. 



