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MICROPHOBETRON; CLAPHIDIA; VENADICODIA. By H. G. Dyae |- 
anticlea. 
schevi. 
cacagamel ia. 
rosabella. 
unicolor. 
scludtzei. 
mclcinois. 
rebella. 
aenea. 
microstagma. 
ter sulci. 
albipuncta. 
ruthaea. 
V. ailticlea Drc. (166 k). Forewing dark red-brown with striped veins; an oblique line and a subterminal 
bent line meet at the costal margin before the apex, the interior line is connected with the base by a dark 
streak on the submedian fold. Hindwing blackish except the costal margin and fringe. Expanse of wings: 
$ 22—26 mm; £ not yet known. Mexico, Guatemala. 
V. schevi Schs. (166 k) is similar to anticlea, somewhat smaller and lighter, more yellowish, especially 
on the prothorax, the $ lighter than the 5- Hindwing yellowish, reddish pink along the inner margin, and 
with dark veins. Expanse of wings: 16 —18 mm; $ 23 mm. Mexico. Perhaps not to be separated specifically 
from anticlea. 
V. cacaganielia Dyar is larger than the $ of schevi, but similar; ground-colour of forewing lighter, 
not passing into yellowish at the costal margin. Expanse of wings: <$ 22—25 mm; $ not known. Mexico. It 
may be the p' of rosabella. 
V. rosabella Dyar (167 a). Thorax and forewing yellow, the veins only partly striped dark, the lines 
tine, light brown, filled with rosy between them. Hindwing yellow, the larger basal half dusted with pink. Ab¬ 
domen rosy red. Expanse of wings: $ 26—29 mm; $ unknown. Mexico; Guatemala. 
V. unicolor Dyar (167 a). The long porrect palpi are black, with red-brown scales outside and on the 
terminal joint. Wings black, forewing lustrous and wrinkled; both wings with a fine whitish line at the base 
of the fringe. Expanse of wings: $ 34—36 mm; unknown. Venezuela, Brazil (Santarem). 
V. schultzei Her. <£■ Hopp resembles the following melanois , but the forewing is more brownish, the inner 
margin and fringe pink, the legs rusty brown. Expanse of wings: $ 23 mm; $ unknown. It may be the $ of 
unicolor. Colombia. 
V. melanois Dyar (167 a). Black, semidiaphanous in the disc of both wings. Collar and anal tuft more 
or less yellow and pink, anterior hips yellow. Expanse of wings: $ 22—26 mm; $ unknown. Costa Rica, Panama. 
39. Genus: Micropliobetroii Dyar. 
Antennae of S plain, somewhat flattened; palpi of normal length, erect in both sexes, slender, smoothly 
scaled, with a small terminal joint. Wings long and narrow, pointed. 
Type: M. rebella Dyar. 
M. rebella Dyar (167 a). A small species with rather long wings. Black, with a faint copper reflection 
on the forewing. Expanse of wings: <3 11 mm; $ not known. Costa Rica. 
M. aenea Her. & Hopp. Forewing bright copper bronze, darker in the cell and in the basal inner-marginal 
area. Hindwing yellowish white, scantily strewn with black. Expanse of wings: $ 17 mm; £ unknown. Brazil. 
40. Genus: Oaplifdhi Dyar. 
Separated from the preceding genus by stouter palpi with a distinct terminal joint. Shape of wings 
triangular; vein 10 arises from the cell, very near to the stalk of 7—9. 
Type: C. microstagma Dyar. 
C. microstagma Dyar (167 a). Basal area of forewing black, with an irregularly roundish border, more 
yellowish towards the inner margin, strewn with black; distal part gi’ey, densely strewn with black in the 
shape of indistinct undulating lines; a round white spot in the dark basal area on the submedian fold. Hind¬ 
wing dusted black with darker veins. Expanse of wings: 3 23 mm; $ unknown. Bolivia (Buena Vista). 
C. tersula Drc., according to the description, resembles microstagma and may not be specifically dif¬ 
ferent, but considerably larger. Expanse of wings: $ 30 mm; $ not known. From Peru. 
41. Genus: Venariicoriia Dyar. 
Separated from Claphidia bv the different shape of the wings; forewing not triangular, but the costal 
and inner margins almost parallel; veins 7- 10 on the wing are stalked. 
Type. V. albipuncta Schs. 
V. albipuncta Schs. (167 a). Forewing brownish grey with a small dark spot at the apex, basal area 
dark from the costal margin to the submedian vein with a round white dot in it. Hindwing blackish brown. 
Expanse of wings: $ 14—15 mm; $ unknown. Mexico (Venadio, Sinaloa). 
V. ruthaea Dyar (167 b). Forewing brownish with a dark brown basal area, bordered by a darker 
oblique line from before the centre of the costal margin to the inner margin behind the middle, with somewhat 
whitish scales in the irregular exterior border; distal area light brown with a small brown apical spot which 
is narrowly continued along the margin. Hindwing blackish brown. Expanse of wings, q 18 mm; $ unknown. 
Habitat not mentioned. 
