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44. Genus: Daseuplexia Hmps. 
In this otherwise purely Indian genus (cf. Vol. XI, p. 110) also a tropical American species has been 
inserted; the broad quadrangular scaled thorax exhibits in front a bipartite tuft, behind loose tufts; the abdomen 
exhibits a row of tufts on the first rings, whilst on the last rings it is laterally set with hair. The apex of the 
forewing is somewhat produced, the margin is crenulate. Otherwise entirely as in the preceding genera. 
D. lichenifera Drc. (33 h). Head, palpi, and collar green, the collar with a black transverse line, thorax lichenifera. 
grey intermixed with green and brown hairs, the first 3 abdominal tufts green. Forewing grey, at the costal 
margin and apex darkest, strewn with small black dots, and with 2 broken green transverse bands in the centre; 
distal margin and hind-margin and an extrabasal line light green. Hindwing brownish-white, at the margin 
darkened, with a black discal spot and with an antemarginal row of brown spots. The $ is darker, otherwise 
marked the same. Expanse of wings: 35 to 37 mm. South East Peru. 
45. Genus: Meganephria Hbn. 
In the structure entirely like the preceding genus, but the prothorax exhibits no bipartite, but a plain 
loose tuft. The genus otherwise contains only a series of palearctic i. e. oriental species. Cf. Vol. Ill, p. 128. 
M. araucanica Hmps. has lilac-white forewings, which are in some places, particularly much in the araucanica. 
median area in the disc and analwards, irrorated with red-brown, with a black, golden-scaled and above white- 
edged basal ray, black transverse lines bordered with white on the averted sides; all the 3 maculae are large, 
surrounded by black, the reniform macula distally white-spotted; the white crenulate undulate line is on both 
sides shaded somewhat with red-brown, the veins behind it and some internerval rays are black. Hindwing 
yellowish-brown with a large central spot, an undulate line behind it, and 2 extinct crenulate antemarginal 
bands. Expanse of wings: 46 mm. Southern Chile. 
46. Genus: Paeliypolia Grt. 
Distinguished by a parted keel-shaped tuft on the scaled prothorax, otherwise like the preceding. J 
antennae with rather long double pectinations. Only 1 species: 
P. atricornis Grt. (29 a) has grey forewings irrorated with brown and strewn with black, with a darker atricornis. 
central area, a black basal ray above bordered with white, double crenulate transverse stripes being filled up 
with whitish and connected by a black prolongation of the coniform macula, the whitish maculae being surrounded 
with black; undulate line whitish with small sagittary spots before it. Hindwing greyish-brown. Illinois. 
47. Genus: Pleromella Dyar. 
Proboscis developed, palpi short. Collar not keel-shaped, frons smooth. Anterior tibia with a long 
claw at the end. Thorax only clad with hair, without tufts; $ antennae with rather long pectinations. 
P. opter Dyar. Forewing light grey warming into whitish, costal margin and hindmargin darker, op ter. 
with black veins; anterior transverse line with long teeth, the posterior line running from the apex to the centre 
of the hindmargin, blackish, the latter line towards the hindmargin distally edged with white, behind it on 
the submedian fold a white stripe; no maculae. Hindwing diaphanous whitish, veins and margin with a grey 
hue. The $ is darker grey with less prominent markings. Expanse of wings: 34 mm. California. 
48. Genus: Eumiclitis Hbn. 
Very closely allied to the preceding genera, but the thorax is almost only covered with scales and exhibits 
loose tufts in front and behind, the abdomen also exhibits a series of tufts and is laterally set with hair; the 
tibiae are hairy. This genus, from which the species of brino only differ in the very feebly serrate $ antennae, 
and which we therefore combine with it as a subdivision, contains more than fifty well-known forms distributed 
almost over the whole globe, from Greenland to Chile and on the whole northern hemisphere, and even in the 
Atlantic islands there occur some species. As to further particulars on non-American species, cf. Vol. Ill, 
p. 130 to 132. 
