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forming an apical border to all the lobes. Abdomen normal in shape, 

 bearing ventral medium tufts of long clavate scales. Wing cells short, 

 and the scales suggesting Tae?iiorhynchus ; ungues uniserrate in the 

 male. This evidently lies between Finlaya^ Theob., and Macleaya, Theob. 

 The genus is named in honour of Lt.-Col. B. F. Pope, Deputy Surg. 

 Gen. U.S.A., under whose authority, as Chief Surgeon Division of the P. I., 

 this investigation was originally begun in connection with the work of the 

 Board of Health, Manila. 



Popea hitea, n. sp. — ,$ . Head covered on median line with 

 curved white scales, the remainder of the head with flat and a few 

 forked scales, a narrow stripe of yellow flat scales next to the median line 

 of curved ones, then a broader stripe of brown flat scales, followed by 

 white flat scales; brown and yellow forked scales on the occiput, white 

 ones near the vertex, a few light hairs projecting forward ; antennae 

 plumose, light brown, light bands on each joint, a few dark flat scales on 

 the first joint, basal joint brown, a few white flat scales on the 

 median side ; palpi light, long and slender, irregularly mottled with 

 yellow, white and brown scales, the tuft is small and light coloured, tip 

 dark; proboscis rather heavily scaled, mottled yellow and brown, the 

 basal part brown, followed very irregularly by deep ochraceous yellow, 

 so that it amounts to a broad irregularly shaped band, the apex narrowly 

 brown, (tip missing) ; eyes brown ; clypeus brown. 



Thorax brown, prothoracic lobes brown scaled, with yellow and 

 white flat scales ; mesonotum brown, covered with yellow, white and 

 brown curved scales arranged in indefinite groups, yellow, flat scales 

 at the nape ; pleura dark brown, with patches of white clavate flat scales; 

 scutellum testaceous, the median portion of each lobe with flat, the inter- 

 lobular parts and caudal edge with rather closely placed slender curved 

 scales; the flat scales on the median lobe are brown, with a line of yellow 

 at each side, those on the lateral lobes are brown, the curved scales are 

 light sulphur yellow, fine bristles on median lobe; metanotum brown, bare. 



Abdomen light, covered with dark brown and yellow scales, mostly 

 yellow; a broken median line of dark brown irregularly-placed spots — /. <?., 

 sometimes apical, sometimes basal — extends the whole length of the 

 abdomen, and the ultimate segment has an apical brown band, the 

 broad lateral yellow stripe is occasionally broken by a few brown scales, 

 but the eflect is distinctly yellow: yellow apical, lateral and ventral hairs; 

 venter yellow, white and brown, there are well-marked tufts of long 



