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ORMLSCODES; HIDRIPA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
cinnamo¬ 
mea. 
cognata. 
rusche¬ 
weyhi. 
gschwand- 
neri. 
weymeri 
ring stellarly arranged tufts of nettling spines, being longest on the 2nd and 3rd rings. On C'ryptocarya peumus. 
Often in great numbers though not gregariously. Pupa in a loose cocoon beneath shrubs or in the ground. 
16. Genus : Ormiscotfes Blch. 
Only 2 species, of the same structure as the preceding ones, but much larger, and the distal margin of 
the fore wing usually feebly concave, especially in the 
Type: 0. cinnamomea Feisth. 
0. cirmamotnea Feisth. (= crinita Blch., plana Wkr.) (117 C b). Forewing cinnamon-brown, intensely 
strewn with greyish-white, with 2 almost straight dark brown transverse lines, the anterior one somewhat 
excurved below the costal margin, both on the inverted sides bordered with white; between them a broad 
cinnamon-red median shadow which is connected with the antemedian line at the inner margin and contains, 
at the cell-end, a large white, centrally somewhat strangulated or bipartite spot. Hindwing light brown with 
a whitish discal streak and a grey nebulous line behind it. Abdomen black with bare ochreous ring-indentations 
and brownish-pink basal hair. Larva black with interrupted yellow transverse bands and long tufts of brown 
spines with a severely burning effect. On Muhlenbeckia, poplars, pepper-tree, roses, and many other trees 
and shrubs. Pupa in a loose cocoon between leaves on the ground. Chile. 
0. cognata Phil. (= alanus Pack. & Gkll.) (117 C b, c) is allied to cinnamomea, of a purer brown without 
the greyish-white strewing, the sometimes deep blackish-brown, also yellowish-brown; more variable than 
cinnamomea-, the transverse lines not bordered with white, the anterior line much less distinct; the white discal 
spot is much smaller, mostly only punctiform. Hindwing with more intense postmedian bands, often also the 
submarginal line very broad and black, whilst in cinnamomea it is almost absent. Abdomen blacker, basally 
not brownish-pink, but rusty yellow like the ventrum and anus. It is probably a distinct species; in the the 
ventrally reverted, deep black chitinized tip of the uncus is more deeply and pointedly bidentate, the harps 
are broader and divided into 2 more unequal lobes than in cinnamomea. 
17. Genus: Miflrigta gen.nov. 
The few species belonging to this genus are chiefly distinguished by the peculiar hairiness of the $ 
abdomen forming at the end an anal tuft which is predominantly developed laterally and beneath and extends 
laterally in long woolly locks, like a coat, to the base of the abdomen. Neuration not quite constant, but on the 
hindwing 5 and G almost invariably arise from the same place or at least very close together. Moreover, the 
species hitherto known are distinguished by a narrow yellow ring around the eye-like discal spot of the hindwing. 
Type: H. ruscheweyhi Berg. 
H. ruscheweyhi Berg (117 C c) is on both wings sooty brownish or blackish; forewing with a darkened 
basal area, the antemedian line on each side bordered with whitish and twice distally sinuate, the similar post¬ 
median line being undulately dentate, between them a large jet-black angular spot at the cross-vein and median 
vein, scaled white and finely bordered with yellow; subterminal line feeble and interrupted. Hindwing without 
an antemedian line, with 2 irregularly notched postmedian bands, the subterminal line broader and less distinct, 
the thick black discal spot with a whitish central streak and a yellow ring. Abdomen sooty black. The 7 
with silvery grey ventral lateral wool. Paraguay and Argentina. 
H. gschwandneri sp.n. (117 Cc) is more than twice as large; ground-colour lighter brownish, basal 
area very dark, antemedian line almost straight, not arched, and in an oblique distal direction to the costal 
margin, outside bordered with yellowish; the V at the cell-end is more slanting and more acute-angled; post¬ 
median line less dentate. Hindwing almost as in ruscheweyhi. Abdomen brown, anus brownish-pink. Type: 
1 from the Chaco (La Paz), Bolivia, in the Berlin Museum. A similar specimen in the Coll. Gschwaxdner. 
H. weymeri sp. n. (117 Cc). Forewing greyish-brown, with a feeble reddish tint, basal area like the 
thorax dark brown, the former subcostally projecting pointedly towards the margin, behind it a broad area 
of lilac grey dusting, distally gradually passing into the median area, without an antemedian line; the angular 
streak at the cell-end finer than in the two preceding species; the feebly notched postmedian line is outside 
narrowly bordered with whitish lilac; the narrow dark subterminal line is distally round-arched between 2 and 4. 
Discal eye of hindwing small and narrow, with a hardly noticeable yellowish border, the two anteterminal lines 
outside intensely bordered with lilac white. Patagia with long lilac white hair. Abdomen basally and at the 
anus copper pink. Type: 1 <$ from Joinville e Coll. Weymer in the Berlin Museum, co-type from Passa Quatro 
(Minas) in the Coll. Hopp-Charlottenburg. 
