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with lighter color; cheek with sharp tooth; prothorax longer 

 than broad, blackish brown, hastate groove same color; fe- 

 mora dusky, tibiae and tarsi yellowish; antennae slender, fllJ- 

 form, brownish yellow, blackish at tips, about equal to head 

 and thorax in length; appendages of male four, superior pair 

 thin, nearly flat, not angled at the end, shorter than the inferior 

 ones; wings dull brown with white dots in cells, and mostly 

 black on costal region of front pair, and white areas in stigma 

 and back of medius in middle of wing; cross veins mostly 

 dark, even in the costal region; mediums of fore wing with four 

 to five branches; cross veins between all branches of radius 

 about 18 or 19; Cui with three to four accessories. Length to 

 tip of wings 70 to 80 mm; alar expanse 105 to 145 mm. 

 Brazil. 



3 N. maeulipinnis Gray 



1832 Hermes maeulipinnis Gray, Griffith's ed. of Ouvier, 2:331, 



pl.72, fig.l 

 1842 Neuromus ruficollis Rambur, Hist. Nat. Neur. p. 443 

 1853 Hermes ruficollis .Wallicr, Oat. Brit. Mus. Neur. p. 202 

 1853 Hermes maculifera Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Neur. p.203 

 1861 Corydalls illota Hagen, Synopsis Neur. N. Am. p. 321 (nomen 



nudum) 

 1869 Hermes maeulipinnis Gray, McLaclilan, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist. (4), 4:39 



Nearly black; mandibles black; sides of head convex, toothed 

 angle wanting, only slightly angled on each side, back of head 

 with black or brown shining streaks and dots, two long streaks 

 in center, other smaller ones each side; prothorax narrower 

 than head, longer than broad, lurid, darker at each side of cen- 

 ter; legs and feet ferruginous; antennae longer than the thorax, 

 slender, slightly serrated in both sexes; wings ferruginous, 

 hyaline, white in basal part of both pairs, or in the front pair 

 the two colors are mixed toward the base; a white spot in radio- 

 medial region about three fourths the way out; other white 

 spots and blotches between these spots and the white areas; 

 media of fore wing with six branches; cross veins between 

 all tranches of radius, about 18 to 30; Cuj with two accessories 



