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marginal black spots distinct ; a broAA-n-edgcd tridentate lunular mark at end of each cell. 

 Tip of palpi and fore tibia) cinereous-brown. 



Expanse 1 f ,7 incli. 



Sab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Family M U;1U).\ li IKE. 



Gciiiis ACllOPTEKIS. 



Acropteris, Hubuerj Gcyer, Zutragc, iv. p. 3(i, tig. 7(»1 (1832). 

 Micronia (part), Gucn., Walker. 



Male. Fore wing triangular, costa slightly arched, apex acnte, exterior margin straight; 

 cell one third the length, fusiform ; first subcostal at one third before the end, second at 

 one sixth, trifid towards the end ; fifth from the end, bifid near its base ; discocellular 

 slender, bent inward near up])er end, the lower end much lengthened and extending inward 

 to one fourth from base of the cell ; radial from angle near upper cud ; median \ fin very 

 short, inflated, the three branches recurved and starting from the end, the second forked 

 near its base ; snbmcdian much recurved from the base, with a slender short lower branch ; 

 slender folds between tlie veins prominent. Cell in female of normal shape ; the median 

 branches also in their normal positions : hind wing short, quadrate, anterior margin lobate 

 at the base ; exterior margin obtusely angular in the midille ; cell two thirds the length ; 

 first subcostal near end of cell ; discocellular extremely slender, scarcely perceptible, bent 

 near upper end, radial from the angle ; middle median very close to end, lower at one half. 

 Body slender, shorter than the hind wings ; pal[)i very slender, obliquely porrect, second 

 joint short, third joint very long, linear ; antennae flattened, with short, stout, broad, barely 

 separated sinuations ; legs rather short, stout ; middle tibitB clothed with long fine silky 

 hairs above, spurs long ; hind tibiie short, inflated, hairy above, wdth two pairs of spurs, the 

 outer short, tarsi short, thick. 



Type A. (jrammearia, Iliibn. 



ACROPTERIS STRIATARIA. 



Phal. Geoin. strialaria, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 1, p. 859 (1~G") ; Clcrck, Icones, pi. 55. f. 4, ^ . 



Phal<ena striataria, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 131. 



Micronia striataria, Gut'u. Phal. ii. p. 28; Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. 13. M. xxiii. p. 819. 



Hah. Darjiling. 



Genus PSEUDOMICliONIA. 

 Pseudomicronia, Jloore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. IGl. 



PSEUDOMICRONIA CiELATA, n. sp. 

 Mio'onia caudata, Walker, Catal. Lep. llct. B. M. x.\iii. p. 817 [nee Fabricius). 



White. Fore wing crossed by ti\e pale cinereous-brown slender strigose bands, of 

 which the three outer are duplex, and narrower at the costal end than in 1\ fratcrna - 



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