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Palaeodoxa gen. nov. 



Forewing : shaped ranch as in Therapis; the apex blunt; the crater margin 

 indented below it and elbowed at vein 0, then faintly curved and passing into 

 inner margin without forming a real angle. 



Hindwing : with apex rounded ; outer margin slightly excised between veins 

 and 7 and deeply between 6 and 4, which are both bluntly toothed ; inner 

 margin and outer margin below 4 forming a single curve. 



Antennae of <5 strongly bipectinate almost to apex, the outer series of 

 pectinations longer than the inner; palpi upturned, second segment long and 

 heavily scaled, third quite short; tongue weak; frenulum present; hindtibiae 

 with four spurs. 



Neuration : forewing, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical, oblique 

 below ; first median nervule at four-fifths, second close to third ; lower radial 

 from a little above middle of discocellular, upper from upper end; 7, 8, 9 stalked 

 from a little before end ; 10 and 11 from cell, 11 anastomosing with 12 : hindwing, 

 discocellular biangnlate, the lower outer angle slight ; subcostal upcnrved from 

 base, approximating to costal shortly, before middle of cell; 7 and 3 from before 

 angles of cell ; radial from the slight outward angle. 



Type : Palaeodoxa subignea sp. nov. 



58. Palaeodoxa subignea spec. nov. and ab. suffusa nov. 



Forewing : olive ochreous, marked with strong dark striae, more or less 

 obscured by olive-brown suffusion ; the basal patch, a broad curved inner line at 

 one-third, and a broad postmedian fascia, edged inwardly by a sinuous median 

 line and outwardly acutely angled above vein 5 — all rich olive-brown ; an irregular 

 olive-green submarginal shade from a large praeapical blotch, containing a pale 

 spot on vein 6 ; a purplish brown shade on outer margin from apex to middle ; 

 a shade of similar colour edges the dark brown markings ; cell-spot vertical, 

 narrowly pale, with deep olive edging ; veins pale across the dark spaces, and 

 dark across the pale. 



Hindwing: blurred pink in costal half, fiery orange at anal angle, red-brown, 

 olive, and ochreous between, crossed by dark striae ; a dull pearly waved line 

 with dark edges across middle of wing to above anal angle, and traces of a 

 zigzag pale submarginal line ; inner margin, in basal two-thirds, ochreous with 

 darker reticulations and olive suffusion. 



Underside of forewing purple-grey to an oblique dark-edged pearly lustrous 

 postmedian line ; the cell yellow, crossed by a brown line ; marginal third yellow, 

 with dark brown striae, and fulvous at apex ; inner margin below vein 2 blurred 

 pearly grey : hindwing redder, with the same two lines, the outer angled before 

 iuner margin ; the broad marginal area reddish and grey. 



Collar, face, palpi, base of antennae, legs, and abdomen beneath deep orange- 

 red, the legs yellow-spotted ; thorax and patagia pinkish grey, the shoulders 

 darker ; abdomen dull reddish mixed with olive ; vertex and basal segment of 

 antennae in front white. 



Expanse of wings : 44 — 48 mm. 



3 c?cj. 



In the larger example, ab. sujfus a, the paler ochreous tints are hidden by a 



