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Abdomen tawny along the hind borders of the segments and at the 

 tip beneath ; a broad tawny stripe along each side. Femora with 

 tawny stripes. Fore wings slightly tawny about the interior border 

 towards the base, and with two black spots, one at the base, the 

 other across the tip of the discal areolet; a dark brown subapical 

 band almost parallel to the exterior border ; hairs of the fringe 

 blackish, whitish towards their tips. Hind wings a little darker 

 than the fore wings. Length of the body 8 — 9 lines ; of the wings 

 20— 22 lines. 



Kio Janeiro. In Mr. Fry's collection. 



Genus POEELA. 



Tibiae subnudse. — Sciathos. 

 Tibiae dense pilosae. — Porela. 



Corpus pilosum, valde robustum. Proboscis non conspicua. 

 Palpi breves, porrecti, valde pilosi, caput paullo superantes ; articu- 

 lus lus brevis; 3us acuto-conicus. Antenna; thorace vix longiores. 

 Abdomen alas posticas non superans. Pedes validi, pilosi ; tibiae 

 postica; calcaribus apicalibus minimis. Alas mediocriter lata;. 

 Mas. — Antenna; sat late pectinata;. Fcem. — Antenna; subpectinata;. 



Body pilose, very stout. Proboscis very short, not visible, 

 Palpi short, porrect, very pilose, extending a little beyond the head ; 

 first joint short; third acute-conical. Antennae hardly longer than 

 the thorax. x\bdomen extending as far as the hind wings. Legs 

 stout, pilose ; hind tibiae with very minute apical spurs. Wings 

 moderately broad. Fore wings straight along the costa till near the 

 tips, where they are very slightly convex, hardly angular at the tips, 

 oblique along the exterior border; interior angle obtuse and some- 

 what rounded ; first and second inferior veins contiguous at the 

 base; third much further from the fourth than from the second. 

 Male. — Antennae rather deeply pectinated. Female. — Autenna; 

 minutely pectinated. 



I. Porela vetusta. 



Nigra, albo varia ; caput antice palpi et antennce lutea ; abdomen 

 apice album ; pedes lutei, nigro fasciati ; alee albo maculatce, 

 anticce apud marginem exteriorem cinerascentes. 



Black. Head partly clothed with white hairs, luteous on each 

 side and in front, and at the base of the antennae. Palpi and an- 

 tenna; luteous. Thorax whitish in front. Abdomen white at the 

 tip. Legs luteous, with black bands ; fore femora and fore tibiae 



