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hindwings a lobular appendage. Anterior body and forewings purple brown; ends of the shoulder-covers, 
abdomen, and the base and proximal margin of the hindwing carmine. The lateral hair-tufts on the abdomen 
orange, the venter is blackish. — In the form reducta form. nov. (= ab. 1 limps.) only the proximal margin of reduda. 
the hindwing is red; — in ochreivitta form. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) (34 k) there is an ochreous-yellow, diffuse ochreiviUa. 
spot in the cell-end of the forewing. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. From Brazil (Ega). 
0. obscura Schs. (34 k) is without the hair on the posterior tibiae, the forewings and hindwings obscura. 
are of a normal shape. Anterior body and forewings black, suffused with a deep green, with a purple reflection; 
abdomen and hindwings black; the anal hairing in the is whitish. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Brazil (Rio de 
Janeiro). 
0. methaemata Hmps. (= floccosa Drc. nec Wicr.) (34 k) looks almost exactly like floccosa Wkr., methaema- 
but the A is without the tibial hairing, the wings being normal. The thorax is more extensively carmine, all ia - 
the rest like there. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Panama. 
0. sixola Schs. (34 1) resembles the preceding. Head and collar black, thorax and abdomen above sixola. 
red, beneath black. Forewings blackish-brown, with fine iridescent stripes. Hindwing black, at the proximal 
margin carmine. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Costa Rica. 
0. roseiceps Rothsch. (34 1) is very similar. Forehead and palpi pink, the latter at the ends brown; roseiceps. 
vertex carmine, like the collar, shoulder-covers and abdomen; thorax and ventral side red-brown. Forewings 
red-brown; hindwings carmine with a red-brown marginal band. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Peru. 
0. patagiata Dogn. (34 1) is brown on the body with a metallic lustre; shoulder-covers and lateral patagiata. 
stripes at the base of the abdomen scarlet. Forewings golden brown, hindwings scarlet with a narrow, blackish- 
brown marginal band. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Bolivia. 
0. inconspicua Schs. (34 1) is dark brown on the head, collar, and wings; the forewings with fine iridescent inconspi- 
stripes. Thorax and the hair-tufts at the base of the abdomen carmine. Abdomen otherwise black. Expanse 
of wings: 17 mm. Costa Rica. 
0. decepta Schs. (341). Head and collar bluish-black. Thorax and forewings dark brown, with hides- decepta. 
cent stripes. Abdomen above carmine, at the base brown, beneath black. Hindwings dull dark brown. Expanse 
of wings: 19 mm. Costa Rica. 
0. unica Schs. (34 1). Head and thorax dark brownish-grey. Abdomen above red, beneath brownish- unica. 
grey. Forewings brownish-grey, at the base and proximal margin darkened. Hindwings red, at the apex and 
distal margin brownish-grey. Expanse of wings: 17 mm. Mexico (Cordoba). 
0. cocciniceps Jones (34 1). Head brilliant rosy, on the vertex spotted dark, collar anteriorly likewise cocdniceps. 
rosy, posteriorly black; thorax, abdomen and legs sooty black; so are the forewings. Hindwings rosy, bordered 
with black. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Castro (Parana). 
0. margina Schs. (341), like the following species, has no hair-tufts at the base of the abdomen. Head margina. 
blackish-brown, behind the antennae striped carmine. Palpi orange. Thorax black. Collar and borders of 
the shoulder-covers striped carmine, chest and legs the same. Abdomen carmine. Forewings purple blackish, 
with a yellow inner-marginal stripe. Hindwings carmine, with a black marginal band. — In lutescens form. nov. lutescens. 
(= ab. 1 Hmps.) from Peru and Bolivia the stripes on the head, collar, borders of the shoulder-covers, and 
legs are yellow. The type flies in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia. Expanse of wings: 16 mm. 
0. endoxantha Jones has a dull yellow body; terminal joints of the palpi, and forehead black, endoxantha. 
Forewing sooty brown, with a broad, yellow inner-marginal stripe, opposite at the cell-end a yellow costal- 
marginal spot. Hindwings yellow, bordered with black, at the apex more broadly so. Expanse of wings: 22 mm. 
Castro (Parana). 
0. leucota Hmps. (34 1) is quite differently coloured: white, on the body with a slight yellowish-red leucota. 
tint. The forewings exhibit at the proximal angle a scaled tooth, and are likewise for the greatest part tinted 
reddish-yellow. An antemedian, indistinct, dark line, on the veins distally angled; in the lower cell-angle there 
is a black dot; a postmedian, somewhat dentate, curved line with reddish-yellow spots behind it. Margin and 
fringes spotted dark. Hindwings brownish-grey with white fringes. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Panama. 
0. domfna Schs. (34 1) is brownish-grey, on the head and thorax with a rosy collar. Palpi and legs domina. 
orange-yellow. Abdomen carmiDe, with an orange anal tuft. Forewings brownish-grey, hindwings darker, 
the latter at the proximal margin pink. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Brazil. 
47. Genus; Ascaptesyle Dyar. 
Proboscis developed; the porrect palpi project beyond the forehead. On the forewings the upper median 
vein rises before the lower cell-angle, the two lower radial veins are petioled, the upper one comes from below 
the upper cell-angle; the uppermost subcostal vein is strongly bent towards the costal, though it does not anasto¬ 
mose with it. On the hindwing the ripper median anastomoses with the lower radial vein, the middle radial 
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