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DASIPPIA; TALMECA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
didugana. 
perplexa. 
remota. 
lunulata. 
dabuisa. 
agathosa. 
dubiosa. 
85. Genus: Dasippia gen. nov. 
Male antennae finely serrated with ciliary tufts, female antennae plain; palpi very long, the middle 
joint slender, with appressed scales, the very long terminal joint subuliform, straightly porrect; a short tuft 
on the vertex. Forewing broad with a sharp apex and a very slight concavity below it, distal margin slightly 
rounded. Vein 5 arises far above the centre of the cross-vein, 6 from the centre of the long and narrow areole; 
the 4 lower subcostal branches — the second and third lowest stalked — from the end of the areole; hindwing 
with the usual neuration, the costal vein branching 'off behind the centre of the cell. Only 1 species. 
Type of genus: D. didugana sp. n. 
D. didugana sp. n. (152 b). Forewing dark greyish-brown with finely black-striped veins, the distal 
half of the costal margin with red-brown internerval stripes bordered with light on both sides; in the lower 
half of the cell there is a somewhat reddish brown longitudinal stripe extending between the lower radials to 
the margin; anterior transverse line very indistinctly double below the cell, extending in the cell as a light 
oblique line far distally as far as the discal fold which is finely striped silvery wdiite, somewhat thickened behind 
the cell and bordered with black below, continued almost to the margin, after having despatched a short streak 
downwards on the cross-vein; of the postmedian line only a few dark vein-dots interrupted by light are visible. 
Hindwing dark greyish-brown with light fringe. Described from a couple from Sa. Cruz (South Brazil); types 
in the Coll. Seitz (Museum Senckenberg). 
86. Genus: Talmeca Schs. 
Male antennae pectinated almost to the tips, the second palpal joint long, the last joint short; legs 
long and slender, abdomen with a hair-tuft. Forewing long and narrow with the usual neuration; veins 3 and 4 
arise near together from the lower cell-angle, vein 5 above the centre of the cross-vein, 6 from-the centre of 
the areole, 7 and 8 stalked with 9 arise from the lower distal end of the areole. Hindwing: cellular nervules 
stalked in pairs, or also the two lower ones from the same place at the lower cell-angle; the costal vein arises 
shortly before the cell-end. Quite a number of species have been described, mostly of a Nonagria- like exterior. 
Type of genus: P. perplexa Schs. 
T. perplexa Schs. Forewing light reddish-yellow dusted with violet, with a darker cellular shadow 
towards the margin, a dark cellular dot, black postmeclian vein-dots and a row of internerval dots before them; 
veins of marginal area fine black with marginal dots between them. Hindwing lilac brown, whitish basally 
and at the inner margin, fringe white. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Known from French Guiana and Trinidad. 
T. remota Dogn. looks like perplexa , but instead of the two postmedian rows of dots it exhibits a more 
median, distantly separated double row of red-brown streaks. Expanse of wings: <$ 27, § 29 mm. French 
Guiana. 
T. lunulata resembles remota, but instead of the double brown streaks it has a postmedian brown 
dentate lunular line interrupted on the veins. The species is apparently somewhat larger on an average, but 
according to the author himself both may be only forms of perplexa. Expanse of wings: $ 30, 35 mm. French 
Guiana. 
T. dabuisa Schs. is reddish olive on the head, thorax and the last abdominal segments, the rest of 
the abdomen lighter and more yellowish. Forewing light yellowish-red, scantily strewn with brown, with a 
yellow stripe below the cell and vein 2 as far as the margin; base of cell shaded wdth brownish, a thick black 
spot at the cross-vein; a brown streak along vein 4 extends to a double row of black vein-dots; trans¬ 
verse lines composed of vein-dots, the anterior line double; greenish subterminal internerval shadow's and 
a row of dots. Hindwing brownish, fringe white. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. Panama (Canal Zone). 
T. agathosa Schs. Head and thorax reddish olive, abdomen brown, the two last segments yellowish, 
ventrum white. Forewing light reddish ochre, inner margin suffused with olive, a similarly coloured stripe 
extends above the median vein and vein 4 to the margin; transverse lines reddish-brown, the anterior one 
double, the posterior one also double, followed by a double row of black vein-dots with white between them; 
discal spot yellowish; marginal area narrowly white with reddish olive internerval shadows before it. Hindwing 
dark brownish with white fringe. Expanse of wings: 33 mm. Brazil, Rio Purus. 
T. dubiosa Dogn. is a larger species, the white forewing strewn with pink, more brownish in the inner- 
marginal half, with a brown longitudinal band through the cell as far as the margin, brownish veins and a 
double subterminal row of dots; a brown streak at the cell-end and a double row of dots below the cell as far 
as the inner margin, thick black internerval dots on the margin. Hindwing brownish, fringe speckled. Ex¬ 
panse of wings: 40 mm. Amazons (SKo Paulo de Oliveira). 
