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Show 1897.] CLASSIFICATION OF THE CHRYSAUG1N/E. 665 small tuft of scales on discocellulars ; a dark marginal line; cilia pure white. Hind wing pale ochreous; the apical area suffused with pink. Underside of fore wing with pink suffusion in and beyond cell to outer margin. Hab. Eio Janeiro. Exp. 28 mm. Genus PARIDNEA. Parldnea, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 602. Palpi upturned, extending far in front of frons and reaching vertex of head, roughly scaled on outer side, 3rd joint with the scales directed downwards ; frons nearly smooth ; antennae strongly ciliated; tibiae nearly smooth. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight, the apex rectangular ; male with a large tuft of scales on costa beyond middle ; a glandular swelling at base of costa below fringed with long hair, met by a fringe from median nervure; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; male with veins 6, 7, 8 free from close to upper angle; 9, 10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; the discocellulars highly angled; 6, 7 shortly stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. Fig. 33. Paridnea holophcsalis, <$. \. Type. PARIDNEA HOLOPHEEALIS, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Er. 1891, p. 603. Centr. & S. Am. Stemmatophora demonica, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 200, pl. 60. f. 9. Genus DERBETA. Derbeta, Wlk. xxxiv. 1147 (1865). Palpi upturned and reaching halfway to vertex of head, thickly scaled, and the 3rd joint minute ; frons with a tuft of hair; antennae of male bipectinate (mid and hind legs wanting). Fore wing long and narrow; the costa evenly arched; the apex rectangular ; the outer margin obliquely curved ; the inner margin evenly arched; a small glandular swelling at base of costa below; the retinaculum tufted with hair; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 7, 8 stalked; 9, 10 absent; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; the discocellulars highly angled ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing slightly with 8. |
