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B. rimosa Grt. has yellowish-white forewings hued with a pinkish brown and scantily strewn with rimosa. 
black, with the same white stripes as the preceding; in the lower cell-angle there is a black dot and above the 
lower radial branch a small black stripe; a postmedian bent row of dots on the veins. Hindwing white, at the 
margin light brownish. From New York. 
B. flabilis Grt. F brewing light ochreous yellowish, with a slight reddish-brown tint and scantily flabilis. 
strewn with black, with the same white stripes as the preceding; in the lower cell-angle there is a minute 
black spot; the postmedian row of dots is only traceable, on the margin internerval dots. The white hindwing 
is slightly smoky towards the apex. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. United States. 
B. amygdalina Harv. (— punctata Strd.) has on the ochreous yellowish foiewing also a pinkish-brown amyydali- 
tinge, scantily strewn with black, with white, brown-striped veins and in the marginal area- brown internerval 
streaks; in and behind the cell-end there are single black dots; behind them follows a row of black dots on 
the veins; the apex is parted by an oblique nebulous patch. Hindwing white, at the margin yellowish 
brown. United States (Maine). 
B. linita Gn. (24 k) is very similar, but without the reddish tint on the forewing and with an entirely inula. 
extinct post-median row of dots on the veins. Eastern States, Florida. 
B. steniptera Hmps. (24 k) has reddish-white forewings strewn with brown, with brown-striped veins stenipteru. 
and internerval streaks at the margin, and the median on both sides shaded with a faded brown colour, this 
shade being continued obliquely to the apex; in the lower cell-angle there is a black dot and behind it the usual 
row of dots. Hindwing diaphanous white with yellowish veins and margin. Paraguay. 
B. sarcostriga Hmps. (= extincta Drc. p. p.) (24 k) is larger than the preceding and darker, browner, sarcostriga 
coarsely strewn with brown, with an ochreous-yellowish lighter part along the discal fold and from there obliquely 
upwards to the apex; below the median a faded, greyish-brown nebulous stripe and in the cell-end 2 dark brown 
dots; there are traces of black postmedian dots. Hindwing diaphanous white. From Mexico to Brazil. — 
pallidior Strd. is paler, in the cell-end only the lower dot and the end of the median are white. pallidior. 
B. rhodoptera Hmps. (24 k). Forewing pink with a white costal margin and white veins edged with rhodoptera. 
a darker pink, below the cell a faded yellowish-white patch and a more distinct one along the discal fold to 
the margin and above it another narrower and shorter one; the usual post-median row of black dots on the 
veins is bent. Hindwing diaphanous purely white. Colombia. 
49. Genus: Nelcucanfa Sm. 
This genus is better known by the name of Melina which name, however, cannot be used here, because 
Curtis, its author, has denoted sociella, the type of the genus, to be a Galleriina. Very closely allied to the 
preceding genus, from which it differs by a rounded slight frontal projection with a horny plate below it; all 
the rest rather similar, except the tibiae exhibiting longer hair. 
N. rubripennis G. 6a R. (24 1) exhibits very much hair on both sides of all the three tibiae. Forewing rubripen- 
ochreous-yellowish with broad purple pink longitudinal stripes, the broadest below the median, filling up half 
the submedian area as far as the margin, a wedge-shaped one behind the cell and one in the apical third of 
the costal margin. Hindwing yellowish. Texas. 
N. atrifera Hmps. (24 1) like all the following species exhibits the tibiae covered with hair only atrifera. 
outside. Forewing yellowish white, strewn with brown, with a black basal ray; in the black and brown striped 
cell the maculae are marked as light spots; the apex is parted by a light patch before and behind which the 
cell-spaces are dusted with brown, with black internerval stripes therein ; the veins in the marginal area are 
whitish. Hindwing yellowish-white, slightly dusted with brown, at the margin darker. Chile. 
N. albilinea Hbyi. (= moderat-a Wkr., harveyi Grt., chilensis Btlr.) (24 k). On the ochreous-yellowish albilinea. 
forewing the costal area is purple grey, the veins are striped brown; above the median a fine white stripe, below 
it a grey and brown one, with fine black stripes below its base and below the end; the long coniform macula 
is marked black, behind the centre of the transverse vein a black dot; on the margin there are small purple 
grey wedges, a very large one extends with its apex to the lower cell-angle. Hindwing yellowish-white, 
except the base smoky. — The form diffusa Wkr. has the purple grey colour more facledly expanded across diffusa. 
the whole wing. — In obscurior Sm. on the hindwing only the veins and margin are smoky, and in neptis Sm. obscurior. 
only the veins are somewhat darkened. — f. limitata Sm. has entirely white hindwings and darker edged veins 
in the marginal area of the forewing. Canada to Argentina. — The larva is green with white, brown-edged 
longitudinal lines. 
N. tetera Sm. is similar to albilinea (24 k), more ochreous-yellow, the costal-marginal area towards Ictera. 
the apex tinted pink, and from the black discal dot a black stripe extends to the margin. Arizona. 
