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oblique, slightly convex ; cell narrow, extending to about three-fifths the length ; 

 first subcostal emitted at one-half before end of the cell, second at one-fifth, trifid, 

 fifth from end of the cell, free ; discocellular slightly bent close to each end, radials 

 from the angles ; middle median from close to end of the cell, lower at nearly one- 

 half before the end ; submedian straight : hiudwing broad, exterior margin convex ; 

 cell extending to half the length, 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-half before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Cilia broad. Body 

 slender, thorax broad; palpi ascending, fusiform, squamose, second joint thickish 

 and reaching level of the eyes, third joint short, conical ; legs squamose ; antennae 

 finely ciliated. 



Type, P. purpurina. 



ANTHOPHILA DEROGATA (Plate 150, Fig. 18). 

 Micra derogata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 825 (1857). 

 Forewing pale yellow, with a broad oblique discal crimson band traversed by a 

 violet-purple recurved fascia from the apical end, and marked by a geminated yellow 

 streak above the posterior angle, the band is also bordered on each side by an olive- 

 brown fine: hindwing yellowish-white, with a slight brownish marginal border. 

 Body, palpi, and legs yellowish-white. 

 Expanse fV to tV inch. 



ANTHOPHILA DIVISA (Plate 150, Fig. 10). 

 Thalpochares divisa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1881, p. 371. 



Male and female. Yellow : forewing with a broad outer dark ochreous-yellow 

 band occupying half the wing, the inner border of the band formed by a delicate 

 black line broadly suffused outwardly across the disc with purple-red, the exterior 

 margin of the wing also purple-red and traversed by a slender white line, on which 

 are a few minute black dots ; two indistinct black dots also at end of the cell : hind- 

 wing with a slight ochreous outer margin. Body and legs yellow ; tarsi with pale 

 purplish-red bands. 



Expanse f. inch. 



ANTHOPHILA HEMIRHODA. 



Micra hemirhoda, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 799 (1865). 



Anthophila roseifascia, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 803. 



Thalpochares adulans, Felder et Eogen. Novara Reise, Lep. iv. pi. 108, fig. 11 (1874). 



Lemon-yellow : forewing with a broad crimson band extending obliquely across 

 the disc, and a similar naiTower band along the exterior margin : hindwino- with a 



