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Loxiorhiza gen. nov. 



(?. Forewing : very long ami narrow ; costa convex at base and beyond 

 middle, sballowly incurved between ; apex prominent, blnnt ; hindmargin very 

 obliqne, sinuons, longer than inner margin ; inner margin rather convex ; anal 

 angle hardly evident. 



Ilindirimj : triangnlar ; inner margin very short, half as long as outer margin ; 

 anal angle rectangnlar ; apical angle acute ; costa convex towards base. 



Thorax and abdomen stout ; head broad, the forehead bulged ; antennae quite 

 simple ; palpi quite short, not reaching to forehead ; tongue slight ; frenulum 

 large and strong ; legs short and stout, with thick spars. 



JS'earation : forewing, cell longer than half of wing, widening much outwardly ; 

 discocellular long, oblique outwards ])arallel to hindmargin, upper angle of cell 

 reaching two-thirds of wing ; the cell-membrane puckered and swollen ; vein 2 

 at two-thirds, 3 from end of cell, 4 from discocellular shortly above end, 5 from 

 some way above it, 6, 7, 8, 9 all from upper part of discocellular, being from 

 the upper end; lU just before end; 11 near base, from one-quarter of cell : 

 hindwing, cell broad at end, discocellular -less oblique ; vein 7 before end, 6 from 

 end of cell ; the rest as in forewing ; a fold within inner margin, containing a 

 tuft of hair. 



Type : Loxiorhiza cervinalis Pag. {Zeuzerodes). 



The neuration is anomalous : the genus seems (juite distinct from Zeuzerodes. 



Family UR.LSniDAE. 



Subfamily EPIPLEMINAE. 



3. Epiplema lucisquamata .spec. nov. 



ForewiiKj : purplish brown, with darker striae, thickly dusted with fine bluish 

 scales ; the lines darker brown ; first from costa at one-fourth, very strongly 

 curved outwards above middle, incurved on submedian fold, to inner margin 

 nearly at middle ; outer line from three-fourths of costa oblique inwards to 

 three-fourths of inner margin, with a sinus inwards between vein 4 and the 

 submedian fold ; the inner line is edged inwardly, the outer outwardly with a 

 line of blue scales ; a brown submarginal line from apex curved jiarallel to 

 hindmargin, almost angled at vein 5, to hindmargin at vein 3 ; a dark IJotch, 

 sometimes ferruginous tinged, at anal angle ; fringe dark. 



Iliiidwinff : with the two lines nearly parallel, from about one-fourth and 

 three-fourths, the outer blnntly angled on vein 4 ; a small black spot, edged 

 with ferruginous scales, below lower tooth ; area between veins 1 and 2 blurred, 

 greyish fuscous, the usual scales and lines obsolete. 



Underside rust-coloured, with coarse transverse brown striae and towards 

 inner margins more or less tinged with brown ; a dark diffuse oblique outer 

 shade in forewing. Face and palpi brown-black ; vertex, thorax, and dorsum 

 like wings ; rest of abdomen cinereous. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



3 it? from Santo Domingo, ('arabaya, S.E. Peru, 60Uit ft., November 1902, 

 wet season (Ockendcn). 



Costa of forewing arched at base and apex ; hindmargin at apex obliquely 

 truncate to below vein 7, strongly excised to 4, then oblique ; anal angle lobed ; 



