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streaks : liindwing blackish violet-brown, with three white lower discal spots, sub- 

 apical band and adjoining cilite, and the cilias fi'om anal angle. Body violaceous 

 ochreous-brown ; palpi, and tarsi with blackish bands. 

 Expanse 1| to 2 inches. 



Genus ANOPHIA. 

 AnoxiMa, Guenee, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 81 (1841) ; Noct. iii. p. 45 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lnp. 



Het. B. M. xlii. p. 1126 (1857). 

 Catephia (part), Ochsenheimer ; Boisduval ; Duponchel. 

 ^dia (part), Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Scbmett. p. 260 (1818-25). 



Male : forewing elongated, costa almost straight, rounded at the apex, exterior 

 margin oblique, slightly scalloped, posterior margin much recurved, very convex and 

 fringed near the base, cilia extending beyond the posterior angle ; cell extending to 

 more than half the length; first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, 

 second at one-sixth, trifid, third at one-sixth from base of second, and fourth at one- 

 third from base of third, fifth from end of the cell, curved upward and joined to the 

 third for a short distance near its base ; discocellular outwardly oblique, concave, 

 radials from upper end and near lower end : middle median from angle at end of the 

 cell, lower at one-fourth before the end ; submedian very slightly recurved : hindwing 

 short, broad, apex and exterior margin convex, slightly scalloped; cell extending 

 nearly half the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular slender, 

 obliquely concave, radial from near lower end ; two upper medians from end of the 

 cell, lower at one-fifth before the end ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body 

 moderately stout ; thorax and base of abdomen slightly crested, abdomen tufted at 

 apes ; palpi ascending, reaching to level of the vertex ; second joint narrow, laxly 

 squamose beneath, third joint lanceolate, half length of the second ; antennte minutely 

 pectinated; legs stout, femora slightly fringed beneath, tibias clothed with strong 

 hairy scales. 



{Type, A. leucomelas). 



ANOPHIA OLIVESCENS. 



Anophia olivcscens, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 48, pi. 14, &g. 11 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xlii. 

 p. 1128 (1857). 



Forewing olivaceous greyish-black ; crossed by two subbasal and two antemedial 

 greyish-bordered black sinuous outwardly-oblique hues, and two discal inwardly 

 oblique more acutely sinuous lines, the outward line of each being the most dis- 

 tinct ; beyond is an outer discal broader line, a more distinct submarginal denticulated 

 line, and a marginal lunular line ; orbicular mark composed of a black ring, and 

 reniform of a black ring with purplish-white centre, the reniform encompassed in a 



