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GALGULA; MICRATHETIS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
niindara. 
nigrijrons. 
aculipennis. 
subajncalis. 
■partita. 
Jiejpara. 
castra. 
canifim- 
bria. 
triplex. 
pallidegri- 
sea. 
subaquila. 
obscure- 
brunnea. 
benjamini. 
P. miridara B. & McD. (37 1) is lighter than mirancla and distinctly marked. Forewing blackish- 
brown and not so lustrous, the veins of the marginal area darker striped, the anterior transverse line entirely 
absent, the row of vein-dots of the posterior line is distally accompanied by a somewhat lighter colour; the 
reniform macula is a small black luna in a whitish ring. California. 
P. nigrifrons Dgn. Forewing sand-coloured grey, scantily strewn with black, and with intense black 
transverse lines, the posterior line feebly undulate, without maculae, and with a deep black frons. Hindwing 
lustrous white, the outermost margin grey. Expanse of wings: 25 mm. Argentina. 
P. acutiperuiis Dgn. is larger than nigrifrons, lilac-grey, a little strewn with white, with faint traces 
of darker transverse lines, of a median line, and of the maculae. Hindwing yellowish-white, at the margin smoky. 
Forewing somewhat more pointed at the apex than in the other species. Described from Argentina. 
88. Genus: Oalgula Gn. 
Proboscis developed, palpus somewhat longer than in the preceding species, with a porrect terminal 
joint, the smooth frons exhibits a hair-tuft, the thorax and abdomen are smoothly scaled, the former tuftless, 
the latter with a tuft on the first ring. The apex of the forewing is somewhat pointedly produced. 
G. subapicalis Hm<ps. (37 1) has bright red-brown forewings with fine black transverse lines being 
broken up into dots, on the averted sides scaled somewhat whitish, behind the distal line with a black costal- 
marginal spot; the reniform macula is marked by 2 black, distally somewhat white-pupilled dots; undulate 
line indistinctly darker. Hindwing blackish-brown. Jamaica. 
G. partita Gn. (= subpartita Gn., ferruginea Wkr., vesca Morr., bias Drc., mandane Drc., externa 
Wkr., sorex Mschlr.) (38 a) is the well-known little species the range of which extends into the palearctic region 
(cf. Vol. Ill, p. 217) and which is reddish greyish-brown, in the female deep blackish red-brown; the transverse 
lines are bordered with whitish, the maculae surrounded with whitish, with a thick blackish-brown costal- 
marginal spot between both. -— The form faepara Gn. (= interna Wkr., hippotamada Drc.) (38 a) originally 
denotes the dark female form, but it may also refer to occasionally occurring dark males. Canada to Guatemala, 
in the West Indies, as far as the Canary Is. and Madeira. 
G. casfra Schs. (38 a) is very much like 'partita from which it only differs in the posterior transverse 
line not being distally bordered with white and exhibiting close in front of it an oblicpie red-brown median 
line, the whitish, finely dentate undulate line being proximally bordered with red-brown. Hindwing much 
lighter yellowish-white. Brazil. 
89. Genus: Micratlietis limps. 
Very similar to the preceding genus, with still longer palpi, an entirely smooth frons, quite tuftless 
thorax and abdomen. Structure on the whole more slender. Exclusively from America. 
M. canifimbria Wkr. (= novarae Fldr.) (38 b) is a small dark coppery brown species with a reddish- 
yellow costal margin, with indistinct transverse lines, the posterior line forming a double row of dots, and a 
dark spot between the quite indistinct maculae, the marginal area is more darkened, with traces of a subterminal 
ine; fringes orange. Hindwing greyish-brown with whitish fringes. Brazil. 
M. triplex Wkr. (= spilomela Wkr., contraria H.-Schaff., conviva Harv.) (38 a) is much larger, yellowish 
white, feebly strewn with red-brown, both the transverse lines indicated by double rows of dots, the ring-macula 
by a black dot, the reniform macula by a small black, lighter ringed luna with a faded darker median line before 
it; the undulate line begins at the apex and is proximally shaded with blackish. Hindwing diaphanous white 
with a dark marginal line. Texas to Paraguay. A very variable species. •—In pallidegrisea Strd. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) 
the ground-colour is light grey, also the hindwing is grey, at the margin brownish. — subaquila Harv. (38 a) 
is on the anterior body and forewing much more intensely suffused with red-brown, whilst in obscurebrunnea 
Strd. (= ab. 3 Hmps.) this colour is a blackish-brown. 
M. benjamini sp. n. (38 b) differs from the preceding in its somewhat broader forewing with a less 
oblique distal margin, a grey ground-colour with a more intense silky lustre than in the allied forms, and 
irrorated with yellowish, purple grey or red-brown of a very variable intensity; the transverse lines are of a 
course somewhat similar to triplex, but in correspondence with the less oblique distal margin steeper, particularly 
the posterior line which is composed of a double row of dots, the distal row of which is much thicker and, in 
several specimens, shows traces of fine acute-angular lines of connection with the proximal line; the antemedian 
line is irregular, a blackish shadow; the ring-macula is a fine black circle or dot, the reniform macula is very 
