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ACONTIINAE. 

 34. Dipthera kebeae ^pei'. nov. 



S. Frons pinkish, slightly tiugecl with green, with three horizontal dark 

 spots ; palpi reddish brown, palely ringed at each segment, end of third segment 

 pale. Head and thorax pale yellowish green, patagiae darkly tipjied and darkly 

 spotted behind the collar, tuft darkly tipjiod ; abdomen pale greyish brown with 

 slight dorsal tnfts darkly tijiped, anal tnf't jjale ; legs dark reddish brown palely 

 spotted at all the joints, tarsi ])alely ringed. Primaries yellowish green with a 

 short very dark irregnlar dash from tlic base along the lower margin of the cell, 

 three dark small costal spots near the base and funr nearer the apex ; between the 

 two series of spots is a large dark mark extending across the end of the cell, 

 in front of the apex a short diagonal dark line on the costa ; between veins 4 and (5 

 are two whitish spots ontwardly edged with dark brown followed by a similar pair 

 nearer the termen ; between the lower margin of the cell and the turnns is a dark 

 brown irregnlar mark liisectcd and edged ontwardly with whitish, witli a whitish line 

 between it and the basal dash ; inner margin darkly dotted. Fringes intersected 

 greenish and dark brown. Secondaries creamy white, more or less snft'used with 

 pale pinkish brown for the terminal half. 



Undersurlace, both wings creamy white. Primaries snlFnsed with pinkish 

 brown along the costa and in the medial area, whitish along the inner margin ; 

 secondaries snfFnsed with pinkish brown broadly along the costa and in the apical 

 area, with a dark costal patch towards the base and a cnrved dark interrnpted 

 postmedial band. 



Expanse : 39 — 40 mm. 



Ifnb. The type is in my collection from the Kcbea IJange ; tlie insect flies 

 in March and April. 



Diptheroides gen. nov. 



Palpi nptnrned, first and second segments thickly clothed with longish hair, end 

 segment moderately long, slightly deflexed ; antennae very minntely ciliated, collar 

 erect, large ; thorax with large central metathoracic tnft ; abdomen with small 

 tnfts on proximal segments. Nenration : Primary with vein Obehuv the njiper angle 

 of cell, 7 anastomosing with lO to i'orm the arcole, which is most minnte, 8 given 

 oif from 9 near the apex, 9 given olT fmm 10 well beyond the areole. Secondary 

 normal. 



Ty|ie : JUpthcroidcs henricki B-B. 



35. Diptheroides kenricki spec. nov. 



c?. Head pale greenish bine, jialpi cream-coloured, dark above, collar dark 

 grey at base with ochreons centre and green tip ; thorax blnish green, with a black 

 stripe below the collar on the patagia, which arc also tijjpod with black ; meta- 

 thoracic tuft with black stripe at base and almost bluish tip ; abdomen creamy 

 grey, with green dorsal spot next to thorax lollowed by two black spots and another 

 black spot on anal segment. Primary blnish green, with a black costal jiatch 

 at base, followed by a white dash, another larger black costal patch and another 

 short white dash ; subbasal blacdc line irregnlar and interrnpted, the median black 

 line rising in a large black costal patch forms a black spot at the end of the cell and 

 recedes beneath it, whence it is irrcgiihir and has a second Mack interrupted line 



