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9. Phakellura Dardusalis. 



Mas. Cinereo-fusca, subtus alba ; antenna apud medium incras- 

 satce ; thorax postice flavescens ; abdomen flavescens, longissi- 

 mum, alas posticas plus dimidio superans, fasciculo parvo 

 subapicali flavescente fasciculoque patulo apicali nigro et fla- 

 vescente ; alee flavescentes, semihyalince ; anticce costa mar- 

 gineque exteriore late cyaneo-fuscis, vitta postica Icete flava, 

 lituris duabus subcostalibus nigricantibus, punctis duobus 

 subapicalibus flavescentibus ; posticce apice fuscescentes, puncto 

 discali nigro, 



Male. Cinereous-brown, white beneath. Head white about 

 the eyes. Antennae incrassated in the middle. Thorax yellowish 

 hindward. Abdomen yellowish, much attenuated, very long, ex- 

 tending for more than half its length beyond the hind wings, with a 

 small subapical tuft of yellowish hairs, and with a wide-spreading 

 apical tuft of black and yellowish hairs. Wings yellowish, semi- 

 hyaline. Fore wings brown and tinged with metallic-blue along 

 the costa, broadly but irregularly of the same hue along the exte- 

 rior border and on the apical part of the interior border, of which 

 the remaining part is occupied by a bright pale yellow stripe ; two 

 blackish discal marks half enclosed in the costal stripe; two yel- 

 lowish subapical points. Hind wings brownish about the tips and 

 with a black discal point. Length of the body 9 lines ; of the 

 wings 14 lines. 



Rio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



10. Phakellura Eumeusalis. 



Mas. Cinereo-fusca, subtus alba ; thorax postice flavescens ; ab- 

 domen alas posticas sat superans, fasciculo apicali mediocri 

 cervino apice nigricante ; tibice anticce fuscce ; alee flaves- 

 centes, semihyalince ; anticce costa margineque exteriore late 

 fuscis, plaga fusca apud angulum interiorem ; posticce apice 

 fuscce. 



Male. Cinereous-brown, white beneath. Thorax yellowish 

 hindward. Abdomen extending somewhat beyond the hind wings, 

 whitish at the tip, with a moderate-sized fawn-coloured blackish 

 tipped apical tuft. Fore tibiae brown. Wings yellowish, semi- 

 hyaline. Fore wings broadly brown along the costa and about the 



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