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L. tranquilla Grt. (= sambuci Behr ) (46 h) has yellowish-white forewings powdered with red-brown, iranquilla. 
with red-brown transverse lines and median shadow, in the latter the olive-green reniform macula. Hindwing viridula. 
reddish-brown. — ab. viridula Grt. exhibits instead of the red-brown colouring of the body a yellowish-green 
colour. Canada to California. — The larva is above olive-grey with a yellow dorsal stripe divided into spots, 
white black-edged sidxlorsal lines, above a broad yellow lateral stripe narrowly black, above it bluish-grey. 
It is stout, tapering towards both the ends; it lives on Sambucus; it pupates in a thick silky web. 
197. Genus: JXarthecopliora Sm. 
This genus has a stunted proboscis and very short palpi, on the frons a large tricuspidate horny projection, 
the central dent being very long, above with a keel; below the whole there is a horny transverse plate. The 
thorax is clad with scales intermixed with hair, without tufts. Anterior tibiae with a short claw. 
N. pulverea Sm. (46 h) is an insignificant grey insect with somewhat darker transverse stripes and pulverea. 
a whitish reniform macula. Hindwing whitish. Erom Arizona. 
198. Genus: Chasm ina Wkr. 
This genus is otherwise purely Indian (cf. Vol. XI, p. 193) and very closely allied to Ommatostola from 
which it only differs in a basal tuft on the first abdominal ring and the scaled thorax. One species was described 
from Central America; we are able to add a Mexican species. 
C. alcidamea Drc. (46 h) is purely white, only the abdomen somewhat yellowish, palpi and antennae alcidamea. 
brownish and the anterior femora above blackish-brown. Mexico and Guatemala. 
C. mexicana spec. nov. (46 h) differs from alcidamea in its much larger size, ochreous-brown frons, mexicana. 
palpi and costal margin, and very fine black marginal dots, the largest of which is below the apex; abdomen 
purely white. Mexico (Colima) in July. Type in the Coll. Draudt. 
199. Genus: ©xytlires Drc. 
Distinguished from the preceding genus by the hairy, tuftless abdomen not being scaled, and a small 
roundish projection on the frons; abdomen tuftless, shape of the wings long and narrow. 
0. splendens Drc. (46 i). This peculiar insect with its long narrow pinkish-white forewings on which splendens. 
the chestnut-brown powdering is divided into many minute spots by the light veins and numerous undulate 
transverse lines, with a larger dark triangular spot at the costal margin near the apex is quite unmistakable. 
Colombia and Peru. 
200. Genus: Dipinacia Hmps. 
Characterized by the developed proboscis, erect palpi with a porrect terminal joint, a bilobate horny 
plate in the centre of the frons with a bent plate below it; the thorax is clad with scales and hair and exhibits 
behind a small loose tuft; the abdomen is tuftless. Only 2 species from Southern America are known: 
D. schiniodes Dogn. (= zothecaea Dyar) (46 i). Forewing yellowish-white, powdered with olive, schiniodes. 
particularly in the marginal area, in the basal half of the hind-margin feebly tinted with reddish-brown, with 
2 whitish postmedian transverse lines, the proximal one of which is proximad bordered with red-brown. Hindwing 
light brownish with 2 darker postmedian bands. Argentina. 
D. athetica Dogn. Forewing light yellowish-brown, the only marking are two postcellular lines formed athcticci , 
by black scales, obliquely extending distally and being roundedly united above the middle radial branch, 
whereby the approximate figure of a very large reniform macula is produced. Hindwing of a diaphanous purely 
white colour, at the margin brownish. Expanse of wings: 27 mm. Argentina. 
201. Genus: Azenia Grt. 
Separated from Narthecophora by a different frontal appendage consisting of a rounded projection 
with a tricuspidate horny plate in the centre and a horny plate below it, the tibial claw being absent besides. 
The genus is also known from Australia and Africa. 
