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Meg'atheca gen. imv. 



A development of Cklorocl>/Mis, from which it differs in having the hindwings 

 of the S very naiTOW, the whole of the inner-marginal area being folded over 

 beneath from base to anal angle; the hindtibiae of S have one very long median 

 sjmr before the terminal pair. 



Type : Megalheca purpurea sp. uov. 



101. Megatheca purpurea sp. nov. 



Forctcings ; pale yellowisli green, dnsted with jiurple scales and with dnll 

 purple fasciae, the edges waved and lined with jialer; an antemedian passing round 

 the dark cell-spot: a postmedian diffuse and broad, and a narrower submarginal. 



Hinchcings: with postmedian and submarginal fasciae onlj'. 



Underside gilded yellowish, with the disc broadly and a narrow submarginal 

 fascia deep purple ; hindwings with only the marginal area purple. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen dnll green. 



Expanse of wings : 16 mm. 



One S from Penang, 1806 (Curtis). 



102. Tephroclystia ruficorpus sp. nov. 



Foreuings : pale grey, suffused with ]iale vinous red ; the costa darker, with 

 large brown blotches representing the origin of the lines ; disc crossed by numerous 

 waved and oblique obscurely darker lines, marked often with dots on the veins, and 

 all angled below the subcostal vein; median vein red-brown from base to end of cell; 

 submarginal line finely denticulate, pale grey, preceded by a ruftjus brown fascia, 

 containing three darker blotches, at costa, beyond cell, and above anal angle, 

 separated from central fascia by a pale space through the centre of which a dark 

 line is distinct; marginal area dark grey, with the veins rufous; marginal line finely 

 black, interrupted by the paler veins ; fringe dark grey, with deeper midtOe shade ; 

 cell-spot obsolete. 



Hiixhchigs : pale grey, with darker curved lines and shades ; inner margin 

 faintly tinged with vinous. 



Underside pale grey, with the markings darker, esjiecially the broadish grey 

 submarginal fascia ; cell-spots marked, but small. Face and palpi brown ; vertex, 

 thorax, and basal segment of abdomen grey, with faint reddish tint; abdomen bright 

 vinous red. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



One ? from the Khasias, October 1896. 



Very near to T. rubripicta Hmpsn. ; distinguished by the absence ol' large 

 cell-spots on upper surface, and by the wholly grey hindwings and bright red 

 abdomen. 



Subfamily TRICHOPTERYGINAE. 

 103. Goniopteroloba conjuncta s]]. nov. (I'l. V. fig. 9, c?). 



Forewings : ochreons yellow, with an olive tinge in places, and especially along 

 costa, and with some scattered black scales ; a black dot at base of costa and sub- 

 mediau vein ; the lines black ; first from one-third of costa to one-third of inner 



