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Show 1897.] CLASSIFICATION O F T H E OHRYSAUGINEE. 657 purplish-black, and ochreous scales. Fore wing purplish fuscous irrorated with greyish ochreous; a very oblique diffused greyish line with ridge on its inner side from costa near base to inner margin beyond middle, the costal area beyond it suffused with grey; an ill-defined submarginal grey line excurved below costa; a reddish patch above outer angle. Hind wing dark fuscous brown. Underside greyer, with dark ante- and postmedial marks on costa of each wing. Hab. Sao Eaulo (Jones). Exp. S 26, $ 30 m m. Genus STHENOBEEA. Sthenobcea, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 541. Palpi upturned, short, smoothly scaled, and not reaching vertex of head; frons smooth ; antennae ciliated; tibiae smoothly scaled. Fore wing short and broad; the costa slightly arched; the apex rectangular; the outer margin obliquely rounded ; vein 2 much curved at origin; lower angle of cell greatly produced by vein 5 running along median nervure; 3, 4, 5 from angle, 4, 5 approxi mated for some distance; upper angle of cell produced ; 6 from well below upper angle; 7 from upper angle ; 8, 9 very shortly stalked; 10 from cell; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 3 and 5 from angle; 4 absent; 6, 7 stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. Fig. 21. Sthenobcea abnormalis, rf. §. *STHENOBEEA A B N O R M A L I S , Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 641. Ecuador. Genus H Y P O C O S M I A. Hypocosmla, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 70. Palpi upturned, slender, and hardly reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint minute ; frons smooth ; antennae of male thickened ; mid tibiae fringed with long hair, a large tuft on 1st joint of tarsus; hind tibiae fringed with long hair, the tarsal joints with tufts diminishing distally. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight; the apex rectangular; male with a small tympanic vesicle at base above; the costal thickening slightly fringed with hair below; a fringe of hair from above base of inner margin ; the frenulum rather thickened ; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell; 4, 5 stalked ; the discocellulars obliquely curved ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. |