MESKEA; ENDOLOPHIA; HEPIALOPSIS; ORNEOSTOMA. By M. Gaede. 
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extend inwards, both thickened at the inner margin. Narrowly brownish at the distal margin. Hindwing with 
all the transverse bands and lines somewhat connected longitudinally. 1 $ 22 mm. Upper Amazon R. 
D. jenestralis C. d. Lima has unfortunately remained unknown to us, since there was no access to the 
original discription. 
23. Genus: Mcskea Grt. 
Similar to Zeuzerodes Pagst. in the shape of the wings, hut veins 8 + 9 of the forewing are stalked. 
There is also a specimen at hand, in which veins 9 + 10 are stalked. For a long time the type dyspteraria Grt. 
was the only species of the genus. Two more species have become known only very much later. 
M. dyspteraria Grt. (175 h) resembles Z. leuco?iotula Pagst. (p. 1203) so much that Pagenstecher has dyspteraria. 
partly confounded them. Ground-colour of forewing greyish brown, the median vein more intensely white than 
in leuconotula, but the same white apical spot with a black dot. Hindwing more blackish than in leuconotula. 
The broad white submarginal band reaches the costal margin and extends sowewhat basad in the submedian 
fold, it may contain fine black dots. 28—34 mm. Florida, Texas. 
M. horror Dyar. Forewing reddish yellow, blackish in the cell, greyer at the margin, with black dots horror. 
which are only absent at the costal margin and more densely arranged in the marginal area. Thus it only differs 
from dyspteraria in the absence of the apical spot. Hindwing also similar to that of dyspteraria , but the margin 
grey with dark dots. In dyspteraria it is brown, and the black dots are on the white band. 30—43 mm. Mexico. 
M. subapicula Dyar. Greyish yellow. Forewing dusted grey, forming indistinct curved bands in the subapicula. 
distal part. A black longitudinal streak below the exterior part of the cell. Hindwing with a long apex, striated 
and dusted grey, forming broad bands through the centre and at the distal margin. 19—21 mm. Mexico. The 
larva does much harm to cotton. 
24. Genus: Elndolopliia Pimps. 
Palpi long, erect. Abdomen long. All the veins of the forewing free, vein 8 absent. Veins 6 and 7 of 
the hindwing separated, long hairs beneath at the inner margin. Only 1 species. 
0. hypohaemia Pimps. Body and wings glaringly red-brown, somewhat grey and brownish ochreous in hypohaemia. 
some places, striated darker red. Forewing with a dark spot at the cross-vein. Both wings with a bent greyish- 
ochreous exterior band and a narrow submarginal band. Under surface intensely reddened. $ 16 mm. Surinam. 
25. Genus: Hcplalopsis Warr. 
Forewing very long, straight at the costal margin, slightly excurved at the inner margin at the base. 
No veins stalked. Hindwing smaller, oblong, its inner margin very short. Veins 6 and 7 from the same base. 
Abdomen of $ long, legs short and strong. Only 1 species, characterized by its name. 
H. sphingipennis Warr. (175 h). Forewing yellowish grey, dusted darker. These scales form rows of sphingipen- 
indistinct spots, which are larger and more distinct in and below the cell. Less dusted and more yellow at the ms - 
distal margin. Hindwing dark grey with a reddish reflection. A thick red-brown submarginal line proceeds 
from the anal angle, with 2 parallel lines or a broad band above it. The hindwing is said to be somewhat similar 
to that of Sphinx ligustri. 60 mm. 1 $ from Peru. 
26. Genus: ©rneostoma Wan. 
Forewing with an undulated costal margin, projecting in the middle, cut off before the apex. Distal 
margin bent, incised above the lobate anal angle. Inner margin lobate at the base, then bent inwards. Veins 
9 + 10 stalked, 5 and 6 from the angles of the cross-vein. Hindwing bent forward at the base at the costal 
margin, the distal margin straight. Type: subpulchra Warr. 
D. subpulchra Warr. (175 h). The forewing with a pale brown subcostal stripe, quite straight from the base to subpulchra. 
the apex. Whitish below this stripe with dark reticular lines. A dark band at + of the length of the wing, slightly 
strangulated in the middle. A dark grey triangular postcellular cloud, connected at the apex with a quadrangular 
spot at the middle of the inner margin. The marginal area is broadly dark greyish brown, bordered by a white 
area inside, which bends narrowly round to the apex and is broad at the inner margin. Hindwing entirely dark 
brown, indistinctly darker between the veins. The description is not quite correct. 1 $ 35 mm. From Peru. 
D. albitessellata Pimps, is somewhat more marked. Body and wings grey with dark brown little streaks, albitessel- 
Forewing with a reddish brown stripe with dark brown streaks below the base of the cell and in the upper cell- 
end. An oblique triangular white spot with red-brown streaks from the base of vein 2 to the inner margin. A 
small spot at the middle of the inner margin, an exterior spot from vein 4 to the inner margin and a white 
