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P. melanotricha Hmps. has much broader wings and much shorter palpi. Body white, mixed with melano- 
ochreous-yellow, forewings white, watered with a golden brown, with long black haired scales before, in and 
behind the middle; before and behind the middle one dark brown transverse line each, and before the margin 
a white undulate line. Hindwings white, on the veins and margin brownish. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. 
Jamaica. 
21. Genus: IG^rinaa Wkr. 
The genus contains only one animal entirely Arctiicl-like, with a stunted proboscis, long haired 
palpi, and doubly combed antennae. Body shaggily haired. On the forewings the venation is almost like in 
the preceding genus, but the upper median vein rises unpetioled before the lower cell-angle; on the hindwings 
likewise; the two lower radial veins from the lower cell-angle, the upper one with the subcostal from the upper 
angle or on a short pedicle. The larva also entirely resembles an Arctiid by its habitus. Only 1 species: 
L. incarnata Wkr. (= robinsonii Bsd.) (34 a) is jet-black, with a bronze green reflection on the incarnata. 
wings; head, collar and shoulder-covers, and the abdominal end deep carmine, the latter with small black dorsal 
spots. Expanse of wings: 46 mm. — The larva is yellowish-white with long hair of a reddish fawn tint on black 
warts, head light red-brownish. It lives on Asclepias pumila. Mexico. 
22. Genus: ITeoialaiui Hmps. 
Very closely allied to the following genus and distinguished almost only by the uppermost radial vein 
on the forewing being petioled with the 3 lower subcostals. Only 1 species: 
N. metamelaena Hmps. (34 h). Body greyish-white mixed with brownish. Forewings greyish-white, metame- 
strewn with brown, except the light marginal area, at the base of the costal margin and at the proximal margin 
more densely; brown postmedian transverse shades. Hindwings black, at the base, proximal and distal margin 
greyish-brown. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. Ecuador. 
23. Genus: Talara Wkr. 
Proboscis developed; the porrect palpi project yet beyond the forehead; antennae ciliated, abdomen 
roughly haired. On the long, narrow forewings the upper radial vein rises below the lower cell-angle, the 3 
lower subcostal veins are petioled, the 4th is separated, the uppermost anastomoses with the costal vein. On 
the hindwings the upper median vein rises with the lower radial from the same spot or petioled, the middle 
radial is absent, the upper one coalesces with the subcostal vein. Numerous, mostly variegated, yellow 
and red, small species. 
T. ditis Btlr. (34a) is orange, anterior body and veins of the forewing coloured red; small stripes ditis. 
at the base of the costal margin; 2 dentate transverse lines and minute spots before and behind them are black. 
Hindwings dusted carmine. Expanse of wings: 14 to 16 mm. Brazil. 
T. esperanza Schs. (32 n) is very similar, on the wings much paler, the whole body light scarlet, esperanza. 
the black transverse lines finer, the whole space in front of the anterior transverse line thickly strewn with 
black. Expanse of wings: 14 to 16 mm. Costa Rica. 
T. subcoccinea Schs. (34 a) is larger than the preceding; pale reddish-brown, strewn darker with subcocci- 
2 indistinct dark transverse lines in the inner-marginal half. Hindwings and abdomen light carmine. Expanse nC( 
cf wings: 20 mm. French Guiana. 
T. ornata Schs. (34 a). Thorax blackish, spotted white; head and collar are like the forewings whitish, omata. 
dusted brown;'abdomen carmine, with a black apex, beneath whitish. At the proximal margin of the forewing 
there is before the middle a white, oblong spot and a red-brown spot behind the middle of the costal margin; 
at the cell-end a black dot and in the lower marginal half a faded, blackish band. Hindwings red with a black 
margin. Expanse of Wings: 18 mm. French Guiana. 
T. lepida Schs. (32 n) is brown on the anterior body and forewings, strewn with greyish-white lepida. 
scales, in the marginal area lighter. Abdomen and hindwings carmine, the latter with a red-brown marginal 
band. Expanse of wings: 14 mm. Costa Rica. 
T. barema Schs. (34a) is whitish, densely dusted brown, and on the forewings strewn with black; barema. 
in and below the cell-end a small black spot, behind it another, still more indistinct spot. Hindwings and abdomen 
light yellow. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Brazil (Sao Paulo). 
T. leucocera Drc. (34 a) is yellowish-white on the anterior body and forewings, dusted red-brownish leucocera. 
with a small dark median spot on the latter. Abdomen and hindwings light red. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Brazil 
(Espiritu Santo). 
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