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Show 652 SIR G. F. HAMPSON O N THE [June 1, upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with a slight glandular patch of scales beyond cell, which is extremely short; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. Type. (l)fSAMCOVA INCENSANA, Wlk. xxviii. 436. Brazil. (2)*SAMCOYA DAMIA, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 308, pl. 28. f. 4 ( 2 )• Centr. Am. Epiclella viridalis, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 101, pl. f. 8. Genus TOSALE. Tosale, Wlk. xxviii. 447 (1863). Fabatana, Wlk. xxxiv. 1265 (1865). Slparocera, Grote, Ann. N.T. Lye. 1876, p. 129. Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint short; frons with a slight tuft; antennae of male ciliated ; mid tibiae with large tufts of scales at base and extremity, the first joints of tarsi with large tufts. Fore wdng of male with a tympanic vesicle and the costa arched at base; a costal fold below ; the retinaculum annulate and fringed with hair; the frenulum thickened and flattened, and with a short lower fork ; the apex rounded; the outer angle hooked ; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked in male, in female 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; the discocellulars highly angled; 6, 7 stalked, 7 anastomosing slightly with 8. Fig. 15. Tosale pyralidoides, rf. i. SECT. I. Fore and hind wings of male without patches of velvety black scales on disk. (l)fT0SALE AUCTA, n. Sp. 3. Head, thorax, and abdomen brown with a slight red tinge ; palpi and legs deeper red-brown ; the extremities of tarsi white. Fore wing red-brown, suffused in parts with grey ; a semicircular chocolate band with slightly waved grey outer edge beyond the tympanic vesicle; diffused medial and submarginal olive-brown shades ; a grey postmedial line with black specks on its inner edge, excurved from vein 6 to 2, where it is bent inwards; the cilia blackish. Hind wing black-brown, with a pale sinuous line from |