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QUENTALIA. By Dr. W. Schaus. 
crcnulosci. Q. crenulosa Dyar. (89 e). Male: Similar to lapana. Forewing: the patch hevond cell very small, 
sayal brown; outer edge of subterminal towards costa cinnamon, narrow; the postmedial at costa orange 
cinnamon. Hindwing orange cinnamon; costal margin and hairs along inner margin light buff: lines faint except 
near inner margin where they are suffused into a fuscous patch. Forewing below tawny; inner margin whitish; 
costa light buff, not reaching apex with a postmedial and a subterminal small tawny patch. Hindwing below 
uniform clay colour; the lines black, distinct, connected by a black spot near inner margin; the subterminal 
faintly edged outwardly with light buff, near inner margin with white. Expanse: 24 mm. Zacualpan, Mexico. 
coarya. Q. coarya sp. nov. (89 e). Male: Body above vinaceous fawn. Forewing vinaceous buff, suffused on 
basal third and along inner margin with vinaceous fawn; lines all fawn colour; antemedial and medial lines 
outbent from costa, slightly inbent below cell, both wavy; a fuscous line on discocellular; postmedial forming 
a triangular spot on costa, below vein 4, smooth, slightly incurved, the patch between veins 4 and 6 small; 
subterminal line inbent from costa, fine and lunular below vein 4. Hindwing brownish vinaceous, the outer 
margin from apex to vein 2 broadly hair brown on interspaces; lines barely visible. Forewing below benzo- 
brown, the basal third, inner margin, and subterminal line light russet vinaceous; costal margin light pinkish 
buff. Hindwing below coral pink to medial line; a black line on discocellular; medial line black, well marked, 
downbent near inner margin; outer half dark brownish vinaceous with some white scales; outer line fine, black, 
slightly lunular. Expanse: 30 mm. Coary, Amazons, Brazil. Type in U.S. Nat. Museum. 
drepanoides. Q. drepanoides Wkr. Male: Thorax and forewing vinaceous fawn. Abdomen fawn colour. Forewing 
with paler suffusions below and beyond cell to postmedial; lines fawn colour; antemedial line bluntly outangled; 
medial line outcurved; a black line and point on discocellular; postmedial very oblique to vein 4, forming with 
the incurved white postmedial a large triangle from costa filled in at its apex with chestnut brown, below vein 
4 the postmedial is incurved, the subterminal lunular faintly defined by white; the outer edge of subterminal 
towards costa bordered with chestnut brown. Hindwing ochraceous tawny, darkest on termen; postmedial 
line faint; subterminal fine, fuscous outwardly edged with white. Hindwing below etruscan red, the lines as 
above, but connected below vein 2 by a black patch. Expanse: 30 mm. Mexico to Southern Brazil. The above 
description is made from a Bogota specimen, the locality of Walkers type, which also has an expanse of 30 mm. 
surynorta. The type of - surynorta Schs. (89 f) is from Mexico and has the fore wing greyer. There are 35 males in the 
National Museum, and they may represent several species when the genitalia are examined. As yet only a slide 
has been made of a Mexican typical specimen of surynorta. 
numalia. Q. numalia sp. nov. (89 f). Male: Similar to the greyish form ( surynorta ) of drepanoides, but larger, and 
the genitalia very different. Expanse: 38 mm. Juan Vihas, Costa Rica. Type in U.S. Nat. Museum. 
The genitalia differ markedly from those of drepanoides in details of the harpe, aedoeagus, and in the 
shape of the sternite and tergite of the eighth abdominal segment. (In the Bombycidae the eighth abdominal 
segment is highly chitinized, strikingly modified and involved with the genitalia proper.) In drepanoides the 
harpe (or what also might be interpreted as the ventral arm of the harpe) has a long thorn like projection from 
costa near apex, marking the apex two pronged; while in numalia the harpe is simple and bluntly pointed. The 
aedoeagus is similarly shaped in both species, but in numalia the apex is considerably more enlarged. In numalia 
the heavy plate of the sternite is produced caudally into a pair of widely separated, long, slender horns; while 
in drepanoides this part has a central projection whichis roughly T shaped, with the base of the T broadened. 
The tergal plate in numalia is produced into a strong, short, broad central hook; in drepanoides its caudal 
margin contains four very stout, evenly spaced spine-like projections. (C. Heinrich.) 
Viridans. Q. viridans Dogn. (89 f). Male: Head and collar honey yellow; tegulae and abdomen dorsally mottled 
hair brown and glaucous grey, the abdomen otherwise honey yellow. Forewing: base dark olive buff; end of 
cell and beyond to postmedial honey yellow, also the inner margin before postmedial; antemedial line hair 
brown, wavy, and outangled below cell, partly suffusing with a dark olive buff medial line; fuscous points on 
discocellular; some glaucous grey mottling on basal half of inner margin and medially below cell; postmedial 
line chestnut brown at costa, vertical to vein 8 well outcurved and inbent to vein 4, then vertical lighter brown 
to inner margin, followed above vein 6 by a large glaucous grey patch; between 4 and 6 a fawn colour shade; 
subterminal line lunular from costa to vein 4 outwardly edged with light buff, below vein 4 fine, buffv brown, 
lunular; space between lines from below vein 4 dark olive buff with glaucous grey irrorations between veins 3 
and 4; similar irrorations on the terminal space. Hindwing honey yellow; inner margin chestnut brown crossed 
by white lines; costa paler; lines barely visible, very fine. Forewing below ecru olive; lines fine, fuscous; a line 
on discocellular; postmedial slightly outcurved from costa; subterminal slightly lunular. Hindwing below 
chamois; a black line on discocellular with some white on edge; lines olive brown, the postmedial faint, the 
subterminal lunular well marked, outwardly edged with white. Expanse: 32 mm. Rio Songo, Bolivia. 
pallida. Q. pallida Maass. Male: Body and wings light buff. Forewing: subbasal and medial lines light ochraceous 
buff, diffuse, outcurved. Antemedial line, fine, more distinct, angled at median; postmedial outbent, fuscous, 
