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Fam. 3. OECOPHORIDAE. 
THAUMATOLITA, gen. n. 
(Qavya=a wonder ; Airds=unadorned.) 
Type: Thaumatolita hamifera Wlsm. (Tab. IV. fig. 6.) 



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26. Thaumatolita hamifera Wism. 6. 
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Antennae biciliate (4); basal joint without pecten. Labial Palpi with the median joint very long, straight, 
laterally compressed, closely clothed, projecting more than twice the length of the head beyond it; 
terminal joint shorter than the median, suberect, slender, acuminate. Mawillary Palpi minute. 
Haustellum well-developed, clothed. Ocellt present. Head rough-scaled. Thorax smooth. Forewings 
with the costa and dorsum nearly straight, apex somewhat produced, pointed ; termen very oblique, 
subsinuate below apex: neuration 12 veins ; 7-8 stalked, enclosing the apex; 2-3 stalked; 4-5 some- 
what approximate towards base ; 1 basally furcate. Hindwings 1, termen slightly sinuate beneath apex, 
thence evenly rounded: neuration 8 veins ; 6—7 separate and parallel; 3-4 connate ; 5 parallel with 4, 
but slightly approximate toward base. Abdomen not flattened. Legs: anterior rather long; posterior 
rather short, hind tibiae hairy above, spurs short. 
Apparently a development of Cryptolechia Z., with FW: 2-3 stalked, and modified 
palpi. 
1. Thaumatolita hamifera, sp.n. (Tab. IV. fig. 6.) 
Antennae stone-brownish. Palpi stone-whitish, the median joint shaded with dark umber-brown along its 
lower half. Head and Thorax stone-white. Forewings stone-whitish, with a slight brownish ochreous 
suffusion leaving two paler patches, the first, somewhat triangular, from the cell to the dorsum, the 
second, oblique, parallel with the termen beyond the cell; the first of these is outwardly margined by a 
dark brown streak, extending obliquely from the middle of the dorsum to the upper angle of the cell ; 
the second, by a slender broken angular line of the same colour, crossing the terminal veins ; near the 
base, below the costa, is a small dark brown spot, followed by a similar one on the cell, a little below 

