114 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAB XXV'I. 1919. 



Gen. Paradozecia nov. 

 Type, P. gravis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, hardly reaching to vertex of 

 head and moderately scaled ; frons smooth ; eyes rather small, round ; antennae 

 of female with the shaft fringed with long scales above on medial third, then 

 tapering to apex, minutely ciUated, without tuft of hair at extremity ; thorax 

 and abdomen smoothly scaled, the latter tapering to extremity ; the fore and 

 mid tibiae at extremity, and the hind tibiae at middle and extremity with tufts 

 of spinous hair above, the tarsi with some spinous hair at the joints. Fore- 

 wing very long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen oblique ; veins 2 and 

 3 stalked ; 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 all from the cell and well separated except 7 

 and 8 which are from a point. Hindwing with vein 3 from well before angle 

 of cell but nearer 5 than 2, 4 absent ; 6 and 7 from upper angle of cell ; 

 8 concealed in a fold. 



Paradoxecia gravis. 



t Aegeria gravis Wlk., xxsi. 12 (18&1). 

 C. China. 



Gen. Similipepsis. 



Type. 



Similipepsis Le Cerf, Bull. Mtis, Hist. Nat. Paris, xvii. p. 304 (1911) ■ . . violacea 



Vespaegeria Strand, Arch. Nat. Ixxviii. A. 12. p. 70 (1912) typica 



(1) t Similipepsis lasiocera n. sp. 



(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen black with a purple-blue gloss ; palpi with 

 some white in front ; abdomen with white segmental line on 2nd segment, 

 the ventral surface white to just beyond the 2nd segment ; hind tibiae with 

 a few spinous hairs near base and at extremity, the tarsi mostly white except 

 the 1st joint ; (hindlegs wanting). Fore\ving hyaline, the veins and margins 

 narrowly black ; a moderately broad black costal fascia with a purple-blue 

 gloss, expanding somewhat towards apex. Hindwing hyaline, the veins and 

 margins narrowly black. 



Hab. Assam, Shillong (R. Turner), 1 S type ; Siam. Exp. 18 miU. 



(2) Similipepsis typica. 



Vespaegeria It/pica Strand, Arch. Nat. Ixxvii. A. 12, p. 71 (1912). 

 Sierra Leone ; Cameroons ; IT. Rhodesia. 



(3) * Similipepsis violacea. 



Similipepsis violaceus Le Cerf, Bidl, Mus, Hist. Nat. Paris, xvii. p. 304. pi, v. f. 5 (1911). 

 Gaboon. 



Gen. Tyrictaca. 



Type. 

 Tyrictaca Wlk., Journ. Linn, Soe. Zool, vi. p. 83 (1862) ..... apiealis 



* Tyrictaca apiealis. 

 t Tyrictaca apiealis Wlk., Journ, Linn. Soc. Zool. vi. p. 84 (1862), , 



Borneo, Sarawak. 



