PODALIA. By Walter Hope. 
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the abdomen a light yellow anal tuft. Head light yellow. The legs are normally coloured, with long white hairs 
on one side, black tarsi, and white-haired claws. 
The following further species are allied to the xanthopasa- group. 
M. pyxidifera Abb. A Sm. (= subcitrina Wlcr.) (162 f). Completely brownish ochreous. The £ has curled pyxidifera. 
hair in the basal part of the forewing, the $ also along the costa. Hindwing somewhat lighter. Southern At¬ 
lantic States. 
M. crispata Pack. (162 f) is pale yellow in all its parts, except the blackish embedding of the head in crispata. 
the thorax and the marking of the forewing. Also the has black, brown and white curled hair along the costa. 
A black spot without the cell-end. Northern United States. — An aberration — a $ —• has been described 
— ab. grisea Barnes & McD., in which the forewing and hindwings above and beneath exhibit a grey ground- grisea. 
colour and white fringes, but otherwise the marking of the typical species. Newark, N. Jersey. 
M. lacyi Barn. A McD. £ completely yellowish creamy, except the black base of the forewing, the lacyi. 
last tarsal joint and a narrow fringe of hair around the eyes. Costal margin of forewing somewhat darker. A 
small brownish spot at the apex of the cell. Forewing covered with long curled hairs. The $ is more creamy 
white, otherwise similar to the <$. Texas. 
M. affinis Dcr. The q is completely creamy white, except a series of black scales along the costal margin affinis. 
of the forewing, fine blackish scales in the cell, and a black dot at the cell-end. $ unknown. Mexico, Yucatan. 
M. ravida Drc. (= Archylus loanus Schs.) (162 g). The has white legs, hindwings and abdomen, a ravida. 
slightly brownish thorax and head. Forewing more intensely marked brown in the basal area, especially in 
the cell, the exterior part of the wing marked feebly brownish. $ unknown. Mexico: Acapulco and Sinaloa. 
M. lapena Schs. (= cyrtota Dyar) (162 g). From brownish-white to creamy white. Basal part of fore- lapena. 
wing with a rusty brown or pale brown spot of curled hair, outside dark brown and interrupted by white. 
Mexico. — The Arizona-form of this species is — heteropuncta Barn. A; McD., in which the spot at the cell- heteropunc- 
encl and the preapical spot of the forewing are small, punctiform and black; this deviation, however, is also 
often found in Mexico and may be merely a variation of the species. 
Cyclara- group. 
Small, fragile species of which only scanty specimens are to be found in the collections. They must be 
ranged with Megalopyge, as the lacks the retinaculum. 
M. obscura Sells. (= Cyclara). Wings light greyish brown. Forewing with a broad, diffuse, dark brown dbscura. 
postmedian shadow partly edged with white. A black dot at the base, a subterminal black spot. French Guiana, 
also from Peru. 
M. brunneipennis Schs. Body and wings dark golden brown. Forewing with a dentate whitish post- brunnei- 
median line from vein 5 to the inner margin ; a subterminal dark brown dot. Rio de Janeiro. penms 
M. ovata Schs. (162 g). Thorax and abdomen greyish-brown, wings somewhat lighter. Forewing with ovata. 
a diffuse dark brown postmedian shadow, partly edged with undulate whitish lines; a black dot at the base; 
a subterminal black spot at vein 7. French Guiana. — The species resembles Pod. guaya Schs. in its marking 
and colouring, but it is much smaller. Mr. Carl Heinrich, Washington, calls our attention to a difference 
in the neuration: veins 7, 8, 9 of the forewing arise on a long stalk in ovata, on a short stalk in guaya. Future 
explorers will have to decide whether the genus Cyclara, Schs. can be founded in this way. 
2. Genus: Podalfa Wkr. 
P. orsilocha Cr. ( Bombyx orsilochus Cr. = vesta, dorsimacula Wkr.) (162 g). The species varies in size, orstlocha. 
colouring and contours of wings, also slightly in marking. The $$ exhibit a broad wedge-shaped white ex¬ 
cision on the hindwing. Widely distributed, Guiana, West Colombia, South-Eastern Brazil. — Beside this 
nomenclatural race there are others occurring stragglingly. — major Schs. <$ (163 a) shows the costal half ol major. 
the hindwing white, the other half brownish; the $$ are similarly marked. Venezuela, Central Colombia (Muzo), 
Peru (Chanchamayo). — misantla Dyar S (163 a) shows all the veins of the hindwing lined brown. Mexico, misantla. 
P. schadei Schs. (163 a) differs from orsilochus in both sexes in its shorter, more compact wings, the schadei. 
$ in completely brown hindwings containing only a small white zone before the dark brown edge of the distal 
margin. The <$<£ have brown hindwings which are sometimes a little lighter in the basal area. Paraguay. It 
