NORAPIDIA; TOLYPE. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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M. nitida Btlr. (75 g) is in the male dark copper-coloured, towards the margin lighter greyish- nitida. 
white, with two black transverse lines, the distal one almost double, on the averted side more or less brightened, 
especially at the costal margin; a subterminal row of small blackish-brown spots. Hindwing copper-coloured. 
The $ is whitish, strewn with black and grey, marked as in dedecora-Q, but the markings are more hazy, the 
colour darker. Chile. 
M. catharina Dogn. (75 h) is on the fore wing monotonously chestnut-brown; a waved subterminal catharina. 
line, not darker than the ground, is distinctly prominent by a double row of small feeble whitish lunae. Hindwing 
somewhat lighter red-brown. In the body a few whitish hairs are intermixed, frons whitish. Sa. Catharina. 
Described from a <$. 
M. spadix sp. n. (75 h) is similarly coloured, but with a discal spot and 2 black transverse lines, the spadix. 
distal line on 2, 4 and 7 distally angled as in chilensis \ a subterminal line of black spots distally lighter by white 
scales, distal margin blackish before the fringe which is crossed by black. Hindwing without markings. According 
to a J from Valdivia. Type in the Berlin Museum. 
M. lojanensis Dogn. (79 a) initiates another small group of allied, somewhat more slender, grey species, lojanensis. 
Forewing whitish-grey, base, median area and marginal area darker, the median area edged by dark grey lines, 
with small indistinct discal spots; a subterminal row on the veins distally dentate, before it an indistinct curved 
nebulous line, behind it the margin is whitish; fringes on the veins crossed by light. Hindwing almost white 
with a brownish marginal line. Ecuador. 
M. deficiens Dogn. (79 a) is more slender, with a longer abdomen, a much duller colouring and marking, deficiens. 
the postmedian line more oblique, the antemarginal line quite indistinct. Hindwing not so white, at the hind- 
margin and anal angle very brown, with a very faint subterminal shadow. Colombia. 
M. canescens Dogn. (79a) in contrast with deficiens is stronger, larger, much more clearly and distinctly canescens. 
marked, the median area narrower, edged by blackish-brown lines, costal margin darkened by blackish-brown, 
fringe speckled black and white, ground-colour of a purer ashy grey, hindwing pure white. Colombia. — quin- quindien- 
diensis /. n. (79 a) is still much larger, the median band broader, more rectilinearly defined, fringe not speckled, sis 
hindwing at the hind-margin broad blackish. From the Quindiu Pass (Fassl). Type in the Mus. Senckenberg. 
12. Genus: JSforapitlia g. n. 
The genus contains 2 Lasiocampidae described as Norape (Megalopygidae ) by Dognin, allied to Om- 
phalia. They are distinguished by a more pointed, in divisata almost falcate apex of the forewing and a longer, 
more slender abdomen; the middle joint of the longer palpi is flatly compressed, wing-shaped. The cell of the 
hindwing is very short, the cross-vein very oblique, 4 and 5 rise from the same place; on the forewing 9 and 10 
terminate before the apex into the costal margin. Only 2 species: 
Type: N. divisata Dogn. 
N. divisata Dogn. (75 h). Forewing brown, in the basal % much darker, with a purple reflection, divisata. 
towards the light brown terminal area feebly defined in an S-shape, the apex of this border terminates into 
the apex; an antemarginal row of small blackish internerval spots. Hindwing light brown. From the Quindiu 
Pass (Colombia). 
N. subdelineata Dogn. (75 h) is larger than divisata , of a deeper purple brown, the marginal area subdelinea- 
hardly lighter, a submarginal curved row of white, black-centred spots, the 3 costal ones much larger than ia " 
the others. Hindwing lighter red-brown. From Mt. Tolima (Colombia). 
13. Genus: Tolype Hbn. 
Palpi feebly developed, mostly bent downward, forewing rather long, but generally broader than in 
Titya, the distal margin of the hindwing straighter, the abdomen of the $ very strong with a thick anal tuft. 
On the fore wing 6 and 7 are forked with 8, 9 and 10 rise on a very long stalk, generally bifurcating only right 
before the apex. On the hindwing 6 and 7 are distinctly separated, the cross-vein more or less angular, just 
like the lower cell-margin on 3, the upper one on 7; 9 entirely absent, basal loop very feebly developed. 4 and 5 
rise from the same place, 3 rather far before them. Rather numerous large and small species, sexes mostly of very 
different size, colouring, and marking. The few larvae that are known generally resemble the palearctic Taragama 
which the genus resembles in many ways; they are mostly clad with short and thin hairs, between them with 
hair-tufts on knobbed tubercles, larger fleshy cones on the first ring, flanking the head on both sides, and mostly 
