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Show 1895.] OF THE SCHCENOBIINCE AND CRAMBINCE. 955 Fig. 38. Chilo simplex, cf • SECT. I. Hind wing of male with no fold below subcostal nervure containing a tuft of hair. A. Fore wing of female with the apex slightly produced. a. (Donacoscaptes). Frons produced to a long sharp point. (1) CHILO VALIDUS, Zell. Hor. Ent. Ross. 1877, p. 16, pi. i. f. 4 a, b. Colombia; Amazons. b. Frons with a much shorter conical prominence. (2) CHILO DICHROMELLUS, Wlk. xxxv. 1707. Hab. unknown. (3)tCHILO VINOSELLUS, n. Sp. cf. Dark red-brown with a purplish tinge. Fore wing with purplish suffusion in cell and on outer area; a whitish mark at lower angle of cell; a series of whitish submarginal specks ; a marginal series of black specks and white specks at base of cilia. Hind wing paler except the outer area. Hab. British Honduras. Exp. 30 mm. (4)tCHILO INCANELLUS, n. sp. cf. Grey-brown ; vertex of head whitish ; palpi and frontal tuft blackish at sides ; shoulders blackish ; abdomen blackish, with pale rings and dark anal tuft. Fore wing irrorated with a few black scales and with faint traces of oblique postmedial and sub-marginal lines. Hind wing fuscous ; the inner area clothed with blackish hair; both wings with marginal series of black specks. Underside whitish ; both wings with indistinct curved submarginal line. Hab. Castro Parana, Brazil (Jones). Evp. 46 mm. (5)fCHILO NIGRISTIGMELLUS, n. Sp. 2 . Pale ochreous; the base of abdomen fulvous ; fore wdng thickly irrorated with black; a prominent black discocellular spot; an oblique line from beyond upper angle of cell to inner margin before middle ; traces of a submarginal line. Hind wing whitish, with blackish hair on inner area ; a diffused postmedial line; both wings with the marginal specks prominent; underside with black discocellular spot. Hab. Castro Parana, Brazil (Jones). Exp. cf 44, 2 60 mm. |