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1o4 INSECTA SAUNDERSIANA. 
MORIMNA, n. g. 
Corpus densé pilosum: facies subproducta, setis longis hirsuta : alis 
areola 4a postica marginem versus clausa ; areola 1a inferior ad marginem 
clausa. F 
Body thickly clothed with short hairs: face prominent, beset with 
long bristles towards the epistoma: fourth posterior areolet of the wing 
closed near the border; first inferior areolet closed on the border where the 
wing is notched. 
Morimna Mattopnoripes, Plate 4, fig. 2. 
Mas. Atra, thorace antico scutello abdomineque flavo hirtis, abdomine 
apicem versus purpureo aut viridi nitente, antennis pedibusque nigris, 
tarsis piceis, alis nigro-purpureis. 
Body deep black, thickly clothed with short black hairs: head clothed 
with longer black hairs, adorned with a ferruginous covering, beset behind 
and beneath with black bristles ; face beset with long black bristles towards 
the epistoma: eyes bronzed; fore part flat, its facets much larger than 
those elsewhere: sucker black, clothed at the tip with short yellow hairs ; 
palpi black, thickly beset with black bristles: feelers black; first and 
second joints of equal length, beset with black bristles: chest beset on 
each side and behind with black bristles: abdomen slightly tapering from 
the base to the tip, shorter than the chest, fringed on each side, purple or 
metallic-green and shining from the middle to the tip, which is clothed 
with yellow hairs: legs black, fringed with black hairs, beset with black 
bristles; feet pitchy ; foot-cushions tawny ; hind shanks rather long ; tip- 
spines of the fore-shanks stout, curved: wings blackish, adorned with pur- 
ple reflections, wing-ribs, veins and poisers black. Length of the body 
8 lines; of the wings 18 lines. 
Columbia. 
