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Show 1897.] CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHRYSAUGINEE. 641 wing with the costa nearly straight; the apex produced and the outer margin excurved at middle ; male with a fringe of hair from basal part of casta below met by a fringe of hair from median nervure; the retinaculum hairy; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8 stalked ; 9 absent; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 free. Fig. 2. Psectrodes abrasalis, Q*. \. Type. (l)fPsECTRODES ABRASALIS, Wlk. xvi. 39. Mexico ; Brazil. Tamyra splendens, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pl. 137. f. 15. Psectrodes hermlnialls, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 488. (2)tPsECTRODES ILLAPSALIS, Wlk. xvi. 50. Brazil. Genus ABEERA. Ahaira, Wlk. xvi. 76 (1858). Palpi porrect, straight, and extending about three times the length of head, fringed with long hair above and below; frons with a sharp tuft ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; tibias smooth. Fore wing with the costa usually arched at middle ; the apex rectangular; the outer margin excurved at middle ; male with a small tuft of hair at middle of costa above ; a glandular swelling in cell below covered by fringes of hair from subcostal and median nervures; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7 absent; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 free. Hind wing with the outer margin slightly angled at vein 2; 3 from near angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. Fig. 3. Abara mactalis, o* • 1 SECT. I. Hind wing with veins 4, 5 well separated at origin. (l)f ABEEBA MACTALIS, Wlk. xvi. 76. Brazil. |