APAMIIDJ;. 2:-, 



THALPOPHILA DELINEATA (Platk 146, Fio. 5,?). 



Female: forewing dark purple-brown; with two small black wluto-bordererl 

 spots at the base, placed one above the other, a subbasal slender white line curving 

 outward from the subcostal to posterior margin, a similar line extending from the 

 costa to median vein, enclosing the orbicular and reniform marks, and thence upward 

 to the costa above end of the cell, a white discal line also curving outward from the 

 costa, and a submarginal denticulated line ending in grey speckles at the costa, the 

 lines mostly with black borders ; a marginal black luuular line : hindwing pale 

 golden-yellow, with broad diffused cuprescent-brown marginal band. Thorax dark 

 purple-browu ; abdomen pale golden-yellow, anal segment cupreous-brown ; palpi 

 with black lateral streak ; forelegs dark purple-brown, tarsi with pale bands, middle 

 and hind legs pale purplish-white, tarsi speckled with dark purple-brown. 



Expanse 1^^ inch. In Mr. Mackwood's Collection. 



Nearest to Thai, cuprea, from the Andaman Isles. Differs on forewing in its 

 much darker colour, more prominent basal spots, which are white bordered, the 

 white transverse lines, the discal line being much less sinuous and zigzag in crossing 

 the wing ; the hindwing has the marginal band diffused on its inner border, not 

 sharply defined as in that species. 



Genus BERRESA. 

 Berrcsa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 214 (1858). 



Wings small. Male : forewing short, broad, elliptic, clothed with short broad 

 imbricated scales ; costa arched at the base, exterior margin slightly 'convex, posterior 

 margin convex towards the base ; costal and subcostal veins arched at the base ; first 

 subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-tenth, swollen at 

 the base, trifid, third from close to base of the second, fifth from end of the cell and 

 touching third near its base ; cell extending two-thirds the wing, within its middle 

 is a large smooth-rimmed tympanistic depression, which is bordered on the underside 

 along the inner end by a broad fan composed of lengthened broad stout plumose 

 scale ; discocellular concave in the middle, bent close to each end, radials from the 

 angles ; median distorted, much swollen and curved downward from the middle to 

 about one-third before end of the cell; middle median emitted at one-tenth, and 

 lower at about three-tenths before end of the cell ; submedian recurved downward 

 from the base, widely separated from the median : hindwing short, broad, costa 

 arched at the base, exterior margin convex, costal and subcostal joined together for 

 a short distance beyond the base; two subcostals from end of the cell; discocellular 

 oblique, radial from below the middle ; two upper medians from end of the cell, 

 lower at one-fifth before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Cilia 



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