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1917, B. & McD., Check List, p. 57, #2095, Pseudanarta ; 

 1921, Dyar, Ins. Insc. Menst, IX, 40, Rhizotype. 



The placing of this insect in collections appears to be somewhat in 

 dispute. Examination of a series of twenty-five specimens, including 

 the types, in the Barnes Collection shows weakly lashed eyes, with an 

 almost hood-like crest on the prothorax, and a spreading crest on the 

 metathorax. Vestiture mainly of narrow seales, and some hair, rough ; 

 abdomen with at least two dorsal crests in fresh specimens, but ap- 

 parently easily lost. The outer margin of the primaries are crenulate, 

 the tip falcate. The secondaries are not always a uniform brown but 

 are sometimes lighter and tinged with faint yellowish basally. The 

 insect while unique in the genus Pseudanarta because of the brown 

 secondaries, and crenulate outer margins of the primaries is never- 

 theless closely related to falcata, Neum, which also possesses fal- 

 cate tips to the primaries. The crenulate outer margins are vestigial 

 in falcata and the species of the genus Pseudanarta. The almost 

 hooded prothorax shown by fresh specimens of peralto is nearly dupli- 

 cated in falcata, which however, sometimes shows this crest bifurcate 

 at the tip whereas in members of the genus Pseudanarta the crest is not 

 so greatly produced, but is a normal, spreading, somewhat divided, 

 crest. The vestiture is more ''hairy" in these two species, the scales 

 also being narrower, than in species of Pseudanarta. 



The authors cannot agree with the placing of peralto in Rhizo- 

 type, the genotype of which it matches in neither structure nor 

 habitus ; viz. — palpi, vestiture, tuftings and shape of the primaries. 



In Entomologica Americana, V, Dr. Smith called attention to the 

 fact that falcata probably deserved a new genus ; and as a proper 

 genus for peralto appears to be in dispute the authors erect the genus 

 Homoanarta, genotype peralto for falcata and peralto; distinguished 

 from Pseudanarta mainly by the falcate tips of the primaries, but also 

 by the vestiture and tuftings mentioned above. Notwithstanding the 

 crenulate outer margins of the primaries of peralto and the lack of 

 the yellow and black banding of the secondaries in peralto present in 

 falcata, the authors do not feel that these two species should be sepa- 

 rated generically. Attention is called to a similar yellow and black 

 condition vs. fuscous on the secondaries of the species of the genu3 

 Lampra. 



