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9. Zeuzerodes argentistriata sp. nov. 



Foreivings : pale wood-colonr, slightly reddish tinged ; costa and hindmargia 

 paler, passing into ochreons ; these latter areas with coarse black atoms ; the daller 

 redder portion with obscnre and irregnlar blackish striae ; the dark markings 

 forming an oblique cloud from be3-ond middle of inner margin to beyond cell ; an 

 apical spot with black centre ; fringe with basal half darker than apical half, which 

 is chequered with black scales. 



Hindwings : with the reticulations and markings much blacker, forming a 

 central blackish baud angled externally ; apical area dark ; a slight rufous streak 

 along hindmargin between the middle and anal lobes. 



Underside of forewings with the subcostal and submedian areas dull reddish ; 

 the costal and hiudmargins ochreons, all alike speckled with black, the ajncal 

 spot whitish ; all the veins beyond cell finely marked with silvery scales ; hindwings 

 as above. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face below pale ochreons with a 

 black bar in middle ; shoulders and front of thorax brown-black ; anal segments of 

 abdomen with brown-black dorsal and lateral lines. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



One ? from Ciadad Bolivar, Venezuela, November 1898 (S. Klages). 



The hindwings in this ? may be called three-lobed : the apex forming a blunt 

 prominence, the hindmargin below middle being produced into a broad almost 

 angular tooth, and the inner margin which is quite short forming a smaller lobe ; 

 the hindmargin between the middle projection and apex being concave and crenulate. 



Whether these ? ? of Zeuzerodes with more or less sinuous hindwings have in 

 all cases c?<? with straight hiudmargins does not seem as yet by any means certain. 



In the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1897, p. 631, a figure with the 

 venation of Meskea dijsjjteraria Grote is given by Sir G. Hampson ; from this it is 

 evident that my suggestion in Nov. Zool. IV., p. 410, as regards the identity of 

 Pagenstecher's genus Zeuzerodes aud Grote's Meskea, was wrong, and the two 

 genera must be kept separate. 



Family EPIPLEMIDAE. 

 Antiplecta gen. nov. 



Forewings : shaped as in Dirades Wlk. 



Hindivings : with hindmargin bluntly bent at veins and 7, without any 

 tooth ; the costa strongly convex, without emargination or tufts of hair. 



Palpi shortly jsorrect, jiointed. Antennae flattened, lamellate. 



JSeuration : forewings much as in Dirades ; but vein 11 anastomoses with 12 ; 

 veins 6 and 7 are short-stalked, and 5 rises nearly from centre of discocellnlar. 

 In hindwings the costal is strongly curved away from subcostal from base, and 7 

 from top angle of cell ; the median and all its branches hidden beneath the fold ; 

 the wing is folded over beneath with a tuft of hair on the under surface. 



Type : Antiplecta jnisilla sp. nov. 



10. Antiplecta pusilla sp. nov. 



Forewings : greyish brown ; the costa darker ; basal two-thirds, as far as outer 

 line, darker than marginal area beyond ; outer line strongly outcnrved above middle, 

 incurved to vem 2, then vertical to inner margin ; inner line very obscure, at 



