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HETEROCERA. 
MNESICHARA, gen. n. 
(urnoixapy=gaiety.) 
Type: Mnesichara dictyota Wlsm. (Tab. IV. fig. 16.) 

J. H. Durrant, del. 
28. Mnesichara dictyota Wism. @. 
Antennae long (1, or nearly), ciliate; basal joint enlarged, with pecten. Labial Palpi long, recurved, 
terminal joint scarcely shorter than median; median joint with appressed scales, slightly projecting 
towards apex. Maxillary Palpi distinct. Haustellum scaled. Head smooth, clothed with rather long — 
scales above. Thorax smooth. Forewings elongate, narrow at the base, slightly widening outward,: 
costa moderately straight, apex depressed, somewhat obtuse, termen oblique, tornus rounded: neuration 
12 veins; 7-8 stalked, 7 to apex (or slightly below); rest separate, 2 remote from angle of cell, 3 from 
angle ; 1 basally furcate. Hindwings 1+, costa straightened, apex slightly rounded, termen very oblique, 
convex, evenly rounded with the dorsum : neuration 7 veins, 3-4 coincident ; 5 approximated to (3+4); 
6 and 7 parallel. Abdomen somewhat flattened. Legs: hind tibiae with hair-scales above and beneath. 
_ Allied to Carcina Hb. and Filinota Busck, and agreeing with both in the tendency to 
long antennae and bright colouration; agreeing also with Filinota in the coincidence of 
HW: 3-4, but differing from both in FW: 3-4 being separate, not stalked. Endrosis 
Hb 
. 1s perhaps another ally. 
1. Mnesichara dictyota, sp. n. (Tab. IV. fig. 16.) 
Antennae bright ochreous, tinged with reddish towards the base, with a broad yellowish brown band before 
the apex. Palpi pale yellow, with a slender, longitudinal, rosy line along the middle of the median 
joint externally. Head and Thorax pale. yellow, mottled and streaked with red; the tegulae edged 
with dark brown on their outer sides. Forewings bright yellow, streaked throughout longitudinally 
and obliquely with bright rosy red, narrowly margined around the apex and termen with yellowish 
brown, which is continued along the costa to the middle, thence expanding and diverging obliquely to 
the dorsum at one-fourth, along which it is produced to the base; in crossing the cell this band is 
somewhat dilated into the form of a quadrate patch, resting on the middle of the fold and sending off a 
short branch from its inner and upper angle to the costa at one-third, where it is somewhat dilated, but 

