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TIRACOLA; ADMETOVIS; LOPHOCERAMICA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
plogiata. 
nebulifera. 
mediosuj- 
fusa. 
magniplaga. 
lilacea. 
nonconfor- 
mens. 
oxyrnorus. 
similaris. 
artcga. 
and on both folds proximally angled. Hindwing brownish-grey with a feeble discal dot. Expanse of wings: 
29 mm. From Mexico. 
21. Genus: Tiracola Moore. 
Proboscis developed, palpi erect, the middle joint thickly scaled, the terminal joint shoit; frons smooth, 
without projections. The thorax is clad with hair and scales, it exhibits in front a triangular, keeled tuft, on 
the metathorax a loose tuft. Abdomen somewhat flattened, at. the base roughly haired, on the first rings above 
with small tufts. Beside the typical, almost cosmopolitan plogiata, two more, entirely different insects have 
been inserted here of late. 
T. plagiafa Wkr. lias already been briefly mentioned in the palearctic volume and dealt with at large 
and figured in the Indo-Australian volume (p. 73, 74; t. 9 h). In the neotropical region of Mexico it is distri¬ 
buted as far as Paraguay and common, and if possible still much more variable than in the Indian region. The 
forms mentioned from there: nebulifera Warr. (Vol. II, t. 9 h, i) and uniformis Warr. (Vol. XI, t. 9 i) also 
occur in America, likewise with a reddish under surface. —- Particularly common is a type with a chestnut- 
brown median and marginal area and an ochreous-yellowish basal and subterminal area, which I denominate 
mediosuffusa form. nov. (18 i), and an almost unmarked reddish-brown type with a large purple-brown post- 
discal spot showing light veins: magniplaga form. nov. (18 i). —• It is of no use to denominate other forms, though 
there might be 20 or more exhibiting all stages of transition without a distinct delimitation. — The dull violet- 
tish-brown larva with triangular grey dorsal spots and a light olive-brownish sublateral stripe lives on Emilia. 
T. lilacea Dogn. Forewing light violet, scantily strewn with dark atoms, with oblique black costal- 
marginal streaks from which the transverse lines proceed which, however, are scarcely prominent in the ground¬ 
colour, the two middle streaks being situate above a large reniform spot, the first obliquely extending to the 
lower cell-angle, behind the second a white costal-marginal spot; reniform macula black and olive; the posterior 
transverse line consists of a row of double black dots on the veins with one white dot each between them; 
also the white undulate line being in the centre distally angular is in front and behind shaded with a blackish 
and olive colour; fringes distally speckled black and white. Forewing brownish, towards the base and at the 
proximal margin whitish. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. Described according to 1 G from the Quindiu Pass 
(Colombia, Rio Toche). 
T. nonconformens Dyar. Forewing dark brown, finely strewn with white, all the markings extinct 
except the small round yellowish-brown reniform macula and the light undulate line being removed close to 
the margin and being distally bordered with a darker colour and subcostally expanded; of the posterior trans¬ 
verse line there appears a dark brown arcuate line between the proximal-marginal vein and the lower median 
branch. Hindwing dark brown, as dark as the forewing, only towards the base and on the fringes somewhat 
lighter. Expanse of wings: 31 mm. Mexico. 
22. Genus: Adinetovis Grt. 
Two species recalling the palearctic species of Phalera in their colouring and marking, with oblong 
forewings exhibiting a dentate distal margin. In the structure they agree rather well with Tiracola , but the 
prothorax is without the keeled tuft and the abdomen exhibits but one tuft on the first segment. 
A. oxyrnorus Grt. (18 i) is an easily recognizable species, the forewing in the proximal half dark grey, 
dusted with white, with rather indistinct markings, behind the reniform macula yellowish-white with 2 dark 
triangular marginal spots; coniform macula distinct. Hindwing densely dusted with yellowish-brown. From 
Arizona and Southern California. 
A. similaris Barnes (18 k) is very similar, but at once recognizable by its entirely white, semi-dia¬ 
phanous hindwings; the ground-colour of the forewing is a uniform iron-grey without the whitish dusting, 
with more distinct black transverse lines, without the coniform macula; the posterior transverse line is behind 
the cell more distally bent, at the proximal edge of the anterior line more approximated than in oxyrnorus ; 
the lower marginal triangular spot extends farther towards the base. Arizona, California. 
23. Genus : Xjopliorcramica Dyar. 
Allied to the genus Ceramica from which it differs by the admixture of scales on the thorax, the $ 
antennae being doubly combed, and the $ exhibiting a large, woolly anal tuft; the palpi are somewhat longer. 
L. artega Barnes (= pallicauda Sm.) (18 k) has red-brown forewings powdered with whitish, with 
rather inconspicuous markings except the reniform macula being distally spotted white, which, however, may 
in the $ also be marked without white; transverse lines double, dentate, filled up with a somewhat lighter colour, 
between them a brownish-red median shade; the light undulate line is faded, proximally shaded somewhat 
darker, the veins in the marginal half marked darker; fringes at the base yellowish-white, distally darker, the 
ring-macula is a round, small, yellowish spot. Hindwing brownish-grey with light fringes. The anal tuft 
