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Show 1897.] CLASSIFICATION OF TUE CHRYSAUGINEE. 647 tarsus above fringed with hair. Fore wing broad, the costa nearly straight in female, excised beyond middle in male aud with a small triangular fold; two postmedial tufts of raised scales between veins 2 and 4 and a glandular swelling at base of costa below; the apex slightly produced and acute ; the outer margin very much excurved at middle; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked in female, in male 7 from angle and 8, 9, 10 free from before the angle; 11 anastomosing with 12, in female free. Hind wing with the cell short; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle; the discocellulars curved; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing slightly with 8. Type. (1)*TAMYRA PENICILLANA, Herr.-Schiiff. Samml. aussereur. Schmett. p. 76, f. 453. Brazil. (2)fTAMYRA CDPRINA, n. Sp. 2 . Differs from penicillana in the fore wdng having a diffused red patch below the cell before the antemedial pale line; no discocellular spot; the postmedial oblique line straighter, arising from the costa before the apex and with the whole area beyond it bright chestnut-red. Hind wing with the marginal area reddish. Hab. Guadaloupe. Exp. 54 m m . (3)fTAMYRA IGNITALIS, Wlk. xvi. 77. Brazil. Auctorum. Tamyrodes papulalls, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 475, pl. 7. f. 4. Cayenne. Genus CASUARIA. Casuaria, Wlk. xxxv. 1807 (1866). Palpi upturned, 4 or 5 times the length of head and reaching far above it, the 2nd and 3rd joints roughly scaled and fringed with long hair below; antennae of male almost simple; tibiae and 1st joint of hind tarsi fringed with hair above. Fore wing with Fig. 10. Casuaria armata, 6". \- tympanic vesicle at base of costa above with ridged membrane across it; the costa highly arched at middle, excised beyond middle; the apex produced upwards and acute; the outer margin |