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P. quinquemacula Skinner is above blackish-brown with 3 white subapical dots and 2 postdiscal spots, quinque- 

 Beneath as above, hindwing with 2 large, white spots near the costal margin and 8 small white postdiscal dots. macula. 

 Expanse of wings: 21 mm. New Mexico. 



Group B. 



The antennae of this group are of a very different shape, but never flawed: the club is either not curved or only slightly. 

 Palpal terminal joint either long and slender, bent across the vertex, or very short. The cell of the forewing is always 

 shorter than Ya of the costal naargin: the middle radial rises nearer at the lower than at the upper, and at its base it is 

 mostly bent somewhat downward. Hindwing at the anal angle often somewhat prolonged, but never extended like a 

 tooth or even into a tail. The ^ never shows a costal fold, but very often a scent-scale stripe or several mostly below the median. 

 The doubly spurred posterior tibiae do not bear a hair-tuft. Characteristic is the way the wings are kept: while at rest 

 and in the sun the forewings are upwardly tucked over, the hindwings expanded horizontally, the latter also upwardly tucked 

 over only when entirely at rest. This group comprises the lepidoptera being by far the most difficult to deternrine, often 

 exhibiting a most remarkable homogeneousness in their exterior. 



71. Genus: Apaustus Hbn. 



Antennae very short with a moderately strong, straight club, palpal terminal joint long and slender. 

 Distinguished by the verj^ long, slender abdomen projecting far beyond the hindwing. No scent-scales. 



A. menes Cr. (180 b). Blackish-brown with 3 yellowish subapical dots and a narrow yellow base of menes. 

 the costal margin. Beneath the same, though lighter, at the apex of the forewing veined yellow, also the hind- 

 wing. Abdomen beneath whitish. Panama to Colombia, Guiana, Amazon. BraziL 



72. Genus: Oarisnia Scddr. 



The antennae have only the length of y^ of the costal margin, but the obtuse club itself is very long. 

 The 2nd palpal joint is long-haired, the 3rd long and slender. Forewing at the apex a little stunted; abdomen 

 also here very long. 



0. powesheik Pack. (180 b) is lustrous dark yellowish-brown, fringes and costal margin of hindwing poireshelk. 

 dark brown. Forewing beneath reddish-yellow, at the proximal margin blackish-brown, hindwing greyish- 

 yellow, proximal margin broadly yellow, fringes at the anal angle white. North America to Mexico. — Specimens 

 from these southern habitats exhibit the hindwing in the distal-marginal half more or less reddish-yellow: 

 f. isidorUS Plotz (180 b). imdorus. 



0. garita Beak. (= hylax Ediv.) (180c) is smaller, with shorter wings of a darker colour. Colorado, garita. 

 Mexico. 



0. edwardsii Barnes. The description of this species was unfortunately not accessible to us. edward-rd. 



73. Genus: A<lopaeoides G. u. S. 



Distinguished from the preceding genera by the shorter antennal club. 



A. simplex G. <& S. {= prittwitzi Plotz) (180 c) is above reddish-yellow with a blackish margin, a blackish simple.v. 

 margin of the hindwing and a darkened base and proximal margin. Beneath plainly yellow with a black proxi- 

 mal margin of the forewing. Mexico. 



A. bistriata G. cfc S. (180 c) resembles 0. poivesheik, but beneath on the hindwing it shows 2 white longi- bisirioia. 

 tudinal stripes, the fringes are not white. Above the forewing exhibits a dark cell-end streak. Described from 

 Mexico. 



A. boeta Heic. (= bilineata Dogn.). We were unfortunately not able to find the description of this boefa. 

 species. 



74. Genus : Aiicyloxyplia Fldr. 



Antennae as in Oarism%. Palpi long, the 2nd joint loosely haired, the 3rd slender, somewhat upturned. 

 The slender abdomen projects somewhat beyond the anal angle. 



A. numitor F. (= puer Hbn., marginatus Harr.) (180 c). The (J is above on the forewmgs dark brown, mimUor. 

 on the hindwings being bordered with black it is reddish-yellow ; in the $ also the forewing is reddish-yellow 

 with a broad black distal margin. Beneath yellow with a black disc and proximal margin. Atlantic States. 



A. longleyi French is more strongly built than numitor, the costal margin of the forewing is straighter, longhyi. 

 the apex more pointed, the terminal joint of the palp somewhat longer. Above monotonously dark brown 

 with a slight blue reflection; hindwing yellow, margined with brown. Beneath almost as numitor, but a little 

 darker, hindwings uni-coloured yellow. From Chicago. 



