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so much, that the wings are nearly wholly suffused 

 with a dark colour. App. sup. of the male stout, not 

 exserted, truncated. Neochauliodes, n. g. (Asia, Mai. Arch.). 



Forewings nearly black, with some pale creamwhite 

 spots in the middle. App. sup. of the male very short 

 and inconspicuous. Penis very long, deposed in a long 

 oval cavity of the last segment. Genitalvalve very small. 

 Antennae serrate to pectinate in the male, subserrate in 

 the female. . , . , Nigronia Banks (N. America). 



Archichauliodes, nov. gen. 



For the characters of the genus compare the key. The 

 type is Ch. dubitatus Wlk. from New Zealand, which is 

 the most primitive species. Moreover belong to this genus 

 Ch. guttiferus Wlk. from Australia, and Ch. pusillus Mc. 

 Lachl. from South Africa. 



ProtochaidiodeSy nov. gen. 



The type of this primitive genus is Ch. cinerascens Blanch., 

 from Chile. Another Chilean species is Neohermes hume- 

 ralis Banks. The genus is the precursor of Neohermes Banks. 



Neohermes Banks (1908). 



Banks, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. X, p. 29 (1908). 



Banks gives in the description of his N. humeralis p. 27, 

 no description of the genus. Further, on pp. 28 and 29, he 

 gives its characters and mentions as the type Ch. filicornis 

 Banks, which is a synonym of Ch. californicus Wlk. I accept 

 the genus for this type, mentioned on p. 29, where the 

 full description of the genus is given. As other species 

 belonging to it he mentions: californicus Wlk., angusti- 

 collis Hagen (also a synonym of californicus Wlk.), cineras- 

 cens Blanchard and N. humeralis Banks. Though the cha- 

 racters given are only concerning the nervature and are to 



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