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example in Z. noctuina (Bull.) from Japan, the third joint of the paljii is very long; 

 in the ? of Z. trmisiens (Wlk.) it is at least four times as long as broad, and can, 

 therefore, hy no means be called short. The second character, if its meaning is 

 " tibiae without spurs," is stated by mistake, I think ; all the species of Zulissa which 

 we have possess the usual spurs to the tibiae. The position of vein 7 to the fore- 

 wings, which Hampson has incorrectly made use of in the key to the Indian genera 

 of Aguristidcte, is variable in Zalissa ; it originates either from tlie apex of the 

 areole, or, in specimens of the same species—/, e. trtaisiens (Wlk.) — is stalked with 8 

 and 9. K. J. 



Longicella .Tord. gen. no\'. 



6 ?. forehead with a short conical truncate processus; diameter of subcircular 

 ridge one-third or less tlie breadth of forehead. Antennae feebly thickened towards 

 apex in (J, almost filiform in ?, with the tip very slender. Second joint of palpi 

 with the hairs not longer than the third joint ; the latter naked, longer than the 

 forehead is broad, about four times as long as liroad. Jliddle and hind tibiae not 

 clothed with long hairs. 



Neuratiou : vein 3 of forewings from before angle of cell ; second partition of 

 median nervure longer than the respective portion of the outer margin. Hindwiugs 

 with vein o also from before angle of cell ; second partition of median nervure longer 

 than the lower discocellular veinlet ; vein 5 shorter than the cell is long. 



Type: Lo-mjicdla mollis (Walker), Lep. lid. B. M. VI [. p. 1774 (1856) (East 

 Indies and Malacca). 



Diflers from all allies in vein 3 of either wing arising from before the apex of the 

 cell, and in vein o to the hindwings being shorter than the median cell is lono- 

 (measured along the middle fold). 



L. decipiens (Butl.), Ann. Mwj. X. H. (5). XIV. p. 34 (1884) (Nias), is only 

 a subspecies of L. mollis (Wlk.) and occm-s in Nias and Sumatra; the extent of the 

 black spots is so variable that mollis and decipiens run into one anothei-. 



L. ladifera (Boisd.), Spec. Gen. I. t. 14. f. 4 (1836) (Java), belongs in this new 

 genus ; it has at first sight a different appearance, but the markings correspond in 

 position very well with those oi' luollis (Wlk.). K. .1. 



Hecatesia Hoisd., Mon. Zijij. p. 11 (1829). 



The figures which ^\'estwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. (2). I. p. 199. t. 33. f . 1 e 

 (1877), and Hampson, P. Z. S. 1892. p. 190. f. 2, give of the peculiar neuration of 

 the male of H. fenestrata Boisd. do not agree with one another. I have compared 

 our eighteen male specimens of fenestrata Boisd. and thjiridion Boisd., and find that 

 both figures are incon-ect, and that Westwood's figure comes nearer the truth than 

 Hampson's does. In Hampsou's figui-e H. fenestrata Boisd. has no areole, veins 6, 7, 

 8, and 9 are stalked together, and 10 is free; Westwood's figure shows correctly the 

 long areole, but the position of veins 6, 7, and 8, and that of fhe upi)er discocellular 

 veinlet, are erroneous. According lo our s[)ecimens, the males of feaestrata and 

 tkyridion have a very long and narrow areole, reaching from close to the origin of 

 vein 11 to beyond the apex of the cell; vein 11 arises much nearer the base of the 

 wing than is shown in Westwood's figure. Veins 7 and 8 come from the apex of the 

 areole, 9 and 10 are stalked together (not with 8); vein 6 arises from apex of cell, 



