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Pubi. is. V. 1937. HEPIALOPSIS; NAROSOPSIS. By H. G. Dyar f. 
wing were alternately traversed by light and dark lines. Expanse of wings: 33—38 mm; $ unknown. 
Colombia. 
P. monomania Dyar (166 e) has yellowish ochreous wings intensely strewn with rusty brown, an ir- monomania. 
regular line extends from below the cell to the dark-striped subapical veins; the exterior line extends from 
before the apex to the base and is undulately dentate. Hindwing brownish orange. Expanse of w ings: $ 43 mm; 
d unknown. Mexico. 
P. benedocta Dyar (166 e) is ochreous with dark-striped veins of the basal area, the sharply dentate benedoda. 
exterior line extends near the margin, followed behind by a faint, more curved submarginal line. Expanse of 
wings: $ 35 mm; § unknown. Argentina. 
P. paraguaicula Dyar resembles benedocta, but it is smaller and darker, more reddish on both wings; paraguai- 
the exterior line is more remote from the margin and bends more back towards the inner margin, forming an 
inward dent opposite the cell; the subterminal line is more distinct and dentate. Expanse of wings: $ 30 mm; 
$ unknown. Paraguay. 
P. affinis Dyar (166 e) is larger than 'paraguaicula, lighter and more with a silky gloss, with a large off inis. 
whitish spot at the inner margin below the cell; the exterior line bends in towards the cell with a dent, its other 
course being regular; submarginal line indistinct. Hindwing reddish ochreous, darker than the forewing. Ex¬ 
panse of wings: <§ 40 mm; $ unknown. French Guiana. 
P. petropolis Dyar (166 e) resembles affinis, the broad light glossy silken marginal area is confluent pdropolis. 
with the light basal inner-marginal area; exterior line remote from the margin, dentate, the veins inward of 
it striped brown. Expanse of wings: <$ 34 — 40 mm; $ unknown. Brazil. 
P. regina Dyar (166 e) is larger and lighter than petropolis, with greater contrasts, especially the light regina. 
glossy silken inner-marginal spot is extensive and very distinct. Expanse of wings: $ 42 mm; $ unknown. 
Ecuador, Peru. 
P. sericea Mschlr. (166f) shows the light marginal area widened and extending to the cell, the sub- sericea. 
marginal line more or less interrupted, often reduced to small spots; the basal area is narrow, dusted with 
brown in the <$, clear in the §, with striped veins. Expanse of wings: 35—45, $ 37—53 mm. Mexico, Central 
America, Panama, Guiana. 
P. degenerans Dyar looks like a small sericea, but without their contrasts; distal line spotted, but degenerans. 
connected by brown shading; marginal area not lighter. Expanse of wings: $ 40 mm; $ unknown. San Sal¬ 
vador. 
P. sibillanta Dyar (166 f) is dark rusty brown, lighter at the distal and inner margins, the submarginal sibillanta. 
line obliterated, shaded, the veins within it strongly ruled with lines. Expanse of wings: 35 mm; $ unknown. 
Brasil. 
P. platona Schs. (166 f) is much darker rusty brown than sibillanta, the marginal area also uniformly platona. 
darkened. Hindwing dark red-brown. Expanse of wings: 3 36—37 mm; $ unknown. Venezuela. 
P. invaria Wkr. Dark rusty brown, the wings of a narrower shape than in platona, somewhat lighter invaria. 
than platona, the ground-colour somewhat more yellowish, the exterior line distinctly prominent, spotted, 
the veins ruled with dark lines as far as the margin; hindwing more rusty brown. Expanse of wings: <$ 35 mm; 
$ unknown. Honduras. 
P. penumbra Dyar (166f) is distinguished from invaria by its quite chocolate brown colouring, dark, penumbra. 
the hindwing suffused with blackish, not reddish. Expanse of wings: 35—38 mm; $ unknown. San Salvador. 
24. Genus: Hepialopsis Dyar. 
Palpi projecting beyond the vertex; veins 2 and 3 of forewing separated. Hind tibiae without middle 
spurs. Only a single species: 
H. agemytha Drc. (166 f) is dark brown with a'few irregular, angular silvery markings, an undulated agemytha. 
one at the base, 2 submarginal ones, the upper one of which is nearer to the margin than the lower one, and 
a round discal spot. Hindwing somewhat lighter brown. Expanse of wings; $ 22 mm; $ unknown. Mexico 
(Guerrero). 
25. Genus: IJTarosopsis Dyar. 
The palpi do not reach the vertex, but project beyond the frons, obliquely erect, truncated. Vein 7 
of forewdng arises from the cell near the origin of 6. Hind tibiae with both the pairs of spurs. Only ohne species: 
N. leucospila Dyar (= vynia Schs.) (166 f). White or yellowish white with a light yellowish brown leucospila. 
subterminal band which is broadest towards the costal margin; a small black spot near the base, one in the 
cell and a subapical one in the dark band. Expanse of wings: <$ 13—15 mm; $ unknown. Guatemala, Costa 
Rica. 
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