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18. Genus: Gymnelia Wkr.
It contains mostly robust species with a stout, round abdomen. The thorax is woolly-haired, the wings are broad. The shafts of the antennae are not thickened, in contrast with the genus Homoeocera which is other¬ wise very much like it. On the forewing the upper subcostal vein rises freely from the cell, whilst on the hindwing the lower median vein and the lower radial rise from a common pedicle. We quote the 3 species cocho, pitthea and chimaera, which are otherwise reckoned to this genus, though they look very differently, in the genus Pseudosphenoptera, since P. basalis seems to be the $ of pitthea; both have several times been found in copula.