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]. Emarginea GRAMMOPHORA. 



Alba; thorax niger ; abdomen supra nigrum; alee anlicce pluga 

 maxima exteriore lituram costalem album includente strigisque 

 duabus basalibus ad is, basi, angulo interiore margineque exte- 

 riore apud apicem flavo-ochraceis ; posticce margine cine* 

 rascente. 



Emarginea grammopbora, Guen. Noct. ii. 289, 1091. 



Monte Video. 



Genns 2. COSMODES. 



Corpus sat gracile. Proboscis brevis. Palpi porrecti, caput 

 vix superantes ; articulus 3us minimus. Antennae corporis dimidio 

 vix longiores. Abdomen alas posticas vix superans. Pedes sat 

 graciles ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor lon<ds. Alae latiuscula? ; 

 antics apud costam rectae, apice subrotundatae, margine exteriore 

 mediocriter obliquo, apud medium subangulato. Mas. — Antenna? 

 vix ciliatae. 



Cos modes, Guen. Noct. ii. 289. 



Body ratber slender. Proboscis short. Palpi porrect, extending 

 very little beyond tbe head ; third joint very minute, not more than 

 one-sixth of tbe length of the second. Antennae hardly more than 

 half the length of tbe body. Abdomen extending very little beyond 

 tbe hind wings. Legs rather slender; hind tibiae with four long 

 spurs. Wings rather broad. Fore wings straight in front, some- 

 what rounded at the tips, moderately oblique along the exterior 

 border, which is slightly angular in tbe middle; first, second and 

 third inferior veins approximate ; fourth moderately remote. Male. 

 — Antennae very minutely ciliated. 



1. COSMODES ELEGANS. 



Ferruginosa ; abdomen cinereum, cristis ferrugineis ; al& anticce 

 vitta brevi arena ta maculisque tribus trigonis discalibus viri- 

 dibus argenteo marginatis, fascia testacea lineaque alba exte- 

 rioribus abbreviates conjunctis ; posticce cinerece, margine 

 fuscescente. 



Phalaena elegans, Donov. Epil. Ins. New HolL 



Piusia? elegans, Boisd. Von. de I' Astrolabe, Pt. 1, Lep. 242. 



Cotfinodes elegans, Guen. Noct. ii. 290, 1092. 



