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at one-tliird ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body moderately stout ; palpi 

 stout, ascending, coarsely squamose, second joint reaching level o£ the eyes, third 

 joint one-third its length, elongate-conical ; antennfe broadly bipectinatcd to near the 

 tip ; legs rather stout, pilose, spurs long. Female. Wing of normal shape ; veins 

 as in male ; antennjB setose. 



MOSARA APICALIS (Plate 159, Fig. 3, 3a, c? ?). 



Mosara apicalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1032 (185.5), J*. 

 Anopliia lateralis, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 917 (1865), $. 



Male : forewiug violet greyish-brown, crossed by an indistinct subbasal and an 

 antemedial outwardly-oblique undulated blackish line, two inwardly-oblique discal 

 sinuous lines, followed by a contiguous prominent angular purplish-grey line, and a 

 similar but more irregular line, the two last lines having intervening black spots at 

 the costal end and in the middle ; orbicular and reniform marks very indistinct ; a 

 short black longitudinal streak above base of submedian ; the area immediately 

 bordei'ing the discal pale line, and also that of the antemedial line below the cell, is 

 of a darker shade : hindwiug pale violaceous cinereous-brown, and whitish-cinereous 

 towards the lower base. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs violet-brown ; tarsi with 

 black bands ; abdomen violaceous cinereous-brown. Female : forewing of the same 

 colour and markings as in male, the fascia bordering the antemedial line below the 

 cell, and of the discal line being more prominently defined : hindwing violaceous 

 cinereous-brown, with the lower basal area cinereous-white. 



Expanse, c? Iro, ? Ithj inch. 



Genus VAPARA. 

 ra2)ara, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 163 (1882). 

 Forewing comparatively broad, exterior margin even, posterior margin convex 

 in the middle ; first subcostal emitted at one-third before end of the cell, second 

 bifid, emitted at one-fifth ; fourth also bifid, emitted from end of the cell, curving 

 upward and touching third near its base, the fifth being thrown off above end of the 

 cell and just below the point of juncture ; discocellular shghtly oblique and convex, 

 upper radial from end of the cell in a line with subcostal, lower radial and upper 

 median from slight angles above end of the cell, middle median close to its end, 

 lower at one-third before the end; submedian slightly curved: hindwing short, 

 broad; costal vein straight; two subcostals from end of the cell; discocellular 

 slightly oblique and convex, radial from near its lower end ; two upper medians from 

 end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and internal vein 

 nearly straight. Body moderate, abdomen of male extending beyond hindwing, anal 



