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Oxychora gen. nov. 



Foreiri/tf/s : witli costa liiinilv cnrvcd tlironirliont : ajicx lilniitly rimndcil : 

 liiiulmargin oliliqnoly rouiideil. 



[lindiritiijs : with both angles anil tlir liiii(liiiai-i;iii roiiiulcd, tlie latter with a 

 slight elbow at end of vein 4. 



Antennae of i bii)ectinated for three-fifths. Palpi slender, terminal joint 

 drooping, nearly as long as second ; tongue and frenulum present ; hindtibiae with 

 four short spurs, the tarsi quite short. 



Neurafion : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular with the upper 

 third oblique inwards, the lower two-thirds forming a very acute inangulation in 

 middle of cell, the lower end of cell narrowly produced ; first median nervule at 

 two-thirds, second at seven-eigliths ; lower radial from upper tliird of discocolluhir ; 

 U])per radial stalked with the five subcostals ; H) and 11 annstomosing close before 

 costal edge. Hindwings, with veins 3, 4, and 0, 7, stalked ; discocellular shaped as 

 in forewings. 



Scaling very thin and hairlike ; tlie wings ^emitransparent. 



Type : Oxychora tenuis sp. nov. 



So. Oxychora tenuis sp. nov. 



Forewings: semitransparent pale sea-green; the costal edge pale; the two 

 lines represented by white vein-spots obscurely united by a i)ale thread ; first at 

 one-third, curved, with an additional spot on submcdian fold farther from the base ; 

 second from costa at five-sixths to two-thirds of inner margin, sinuous, the spots on 

 the lower radial and submedian fold being nearer the base ; cell-spot white ; a series 

 of small white dots at ends of veins before the green fringe. 



IlindwitKjs : without first line, the cell-spot silvery white. 



Underside paler, without markings. Head, thorax, and abdomen green, the 

 last with a row of white dorsal dots ; fillet snow-white ; palpi and forelegs tinged 

 above with fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



One S from Kayeli, Burn, March 1897 (Doherty). 



30. Rhomborista ustipennis sp. nov. 



Forewings: pale green, dappled with darker; the costa whitish; cell-spot red, 

 preceded closely by an outwardly oblique somewhat curved darker lino to middle of 

 inner margin, marked by brown dashes on the subcostal, median, and submedian 

 veins ; basal patch as in 7?. pallinfa Warr., but dark black-brown, with only the 

 margin reddish ; a large roundish blackish blotch on hindmargin, extending from 

 veins 7 to 2, edged with red and the green ontside it yellow-tinged, and containing 

 on the margin between veins 3 and 4 a patch of briglit crimson and yellow scales ; 

 fringe jiinkish grey, with dark brown mottlings beyond the veins. 



Hindwings : with similar nnii'kings to those of R. prilliata Warr., but blaclv- 

 brown instead of red, striated with deep black, and edgeil with red ; twice as broad 

 as in palliata, the inner edge with a sinus in middle ; near the base a bar of yellow 

 crimson-edged spots ; traces of a postmedian dentate line, marked in the green costal 

 urea by dark brown dashes on veins ; cell-spot velvety black, jilaced on tiie margin 

 of the basal patch. 



