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abdominal margin short; cell extending half the length; two subcostals from end of 

 cell ; discocellular very slender, concave, radial fi'om lower end ; two upper medians 

 from end of the cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian and internal vein straight. Body 

 moderately stout, palpi ascending, second joint squamose, extending above the vertex, 

 third joint long, nearly half length of second in both sexes ; antenna) in male stout, 

 flattened in the middle, minutely cihated, setaceous in female; femora fringed 

 beneath, middle and hind tibi« thick, laxly squamose, spurs long. 



PSIMADA aUADRlPENNIS (Plate 170, Fig. 2). 

 Psimada quadripennis. Walker, Catal. Lop. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1828 (18.58), ? . 



Male and female : forewing lilacine ochroous-brown, darkest exteriorly ; crossed by 

 a very indistinct brown subbasal, a curved antemedial, and a sinuous postmedial line, 

 the two latter hues with an intervening slender waved fascia ; before the apex is a 

 dark chestnut-brown triangular costal spot, the outer side of which is bordered by a 

 pale ochreous-white line, this line being continued beneath in a submarginal series of 

 white pointed dots on the veins; a black puuctiform orbicular spot, and a very 

 indistinct brown reniforra mark : hindwing dark chestnut-brown, paling to lilacme 

 ochreous-brown at the base, and with a paler ochreous-browu marginal band 

 extending from the anal angle to the middle angle. Body ochreous-brown; front 

 of thorax, head, palpi, and legs above dark brown ; tibite and tarsi with a whitish 

 basal spot. 



Expanse, ^ 1-|, ? H iiich. 



Genus ANEREUTHINA. 



Anereuthina, Hubuer, Zutrage Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. 23, 163, f. 32o-6 (1823). 

 Hypatra, Gueuee, Noct. iii. p. 259 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1409. 

 Male and female : forewing elongate, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, exterior 

 margin nearly erect, very slightly convex ; cell extending to one-half the length ; 

 first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-fourth, 

 trifid, third at one-fifth from base of second, fourth at two-thirds from base of third, 

 fifth from end of cell and joined by a short spur to base of third ; discocellular bent 

 in the middle and near the ends, radials from the angles ; middle median from angle 

 close to end of cell, lower at nearly one-half; submedian curved at the base : hindwing 

 short; apex convex, exterior margin oblique, angular at end of lower median vem, 

 truncated and waved from the angle ; abdominal margin short ; cell extending one- 

 third the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell, discocellular concave, radial 

 from near lower end; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one-third; 

 submedian and internal vein straight. Body very stout, short, frontal tuft projectmg 

 beyond the eyes; palpi obliquely ascending, second joint reaching vertex, compressed, 



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