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19. DlOPTIS .EQUINOCTIALIS. 



Nigro-cyanea, nigro-hirla ; prothorax utrinque subtusque luteo- 

 hirtus ; thorax albo bistrigatus ; pedes antici subtus albi, 

 coxis luteo-hirtis ; alee nigra, discis plerumque limpidis nigra 

 unifasciatis, anticce gutta basali alba. 



Gnophaela aequinoctialis, MSS. 



Blackish blue, clothed with black hairs. Prothorax clothed on 

 each side and beneath with luteous hairs. Thorax with a slight 

 white streak on each side. Fore legs mostly white beneath ; fore 

 coxas clothed with luteous hairs. Wings black. Fore wings with 

 a white dot on each at the base, and with two limpid upright broad 

 black-veined bands ; the first united to a limpid stripe which widens 

 from near the base and is parallel to the hind border and nearer to 

 it than to the fore border; the second near the tip. Hind wings 

 with two large limpid black-veined spots, the first in two divisions, 

 of which the fore one is partly beyond the hind one; the second 

 transverse, and forming a short band. Length of the body 5 lines; 

 of the wings 16 lines. 



a. South America. From M. Becker's collection. 



Group 10. HYRMINA. 



Corpus cylindricum, lineare, gracillimum, longiusculum. Palpi 

 ascendentes, arcuati, capite breviores ; articulus 3us acuminatus, 2i 

 quadrario brevior. Antennae maris sat late pectinatae, fcemina? sub- 

 pectinatae. Abdomen maris alas posticas paullo superans, fozmincB 

 brevius. Pedes graciles ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor parvis. 

 Alae longitudine mediocre?, sat latae ; anticae venis tribus inferiori- 

 bus. 



Body cylindrical, linear, very slender, rather long. Palpi as- 

 cending, curved, shorter than the head ; third joint pointed, not 

 one-fourth of the length of the second. Antennae of the male rather 

 deeply, of the female minutely, pectinated. Abdomen extending a 

 little beyond the hind wings in the male, and nearly as far as them 

 in the female. Legs slender; fore tibiae of the male slightly 

 channelled and not dentated beneath; hind tibiae with four small 

 spurs. Wings moderately long, rather broad ; fore wings with three 

 inferior veins. 



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