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ACANTHOLIPES TRIFASCIATA (Platk 172, Fig. 2). 

 Dai'k cinereous-brown : forewing with two transverse inwardly-oblique black 

 streaks below the cell, a short black streak at end of the cell, and a broad cuprescent- 

 brown discal band, the outer border of the band being angulated in the middle and 

 at the ends, and the inner border slightly recurved, even, and with a pale ochreous 

 line : hindwing with a short narrow medial, a discal, and a broad marginal cuprescent- 

 brown band. Body, palpi, and legs cinereous-brown. 

 Expanse ItV inch. 



Genus? EUCLIDIA, OCHS. 

 EUCLIDIA? TAESALIS. 

 Eudidia? tarsalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 986 (1865"). 

 " Male. Dark ferruginous-red, dai-k cinereous beneath. Wings black speckled ; 

 with an almost straight oblique postmedial blackish line, which is bordered with 

 cinereous on the outer side ; fringe doubly interhned with brown : forewings with a 

 blackish nearly straight line near the base, bordered with cinereous on the inner side ; 

 a black dot in the disc between the lines. Palpi pale cinereous on the inner side ; 

 abdomen with a fawn-coloured apical tuft ; tarsi pale cinereous. 

 " Expanse 14 lines." 



Family POAPHILIDiE. 



Imago small, or moderate ; wings stout, with dense cilifB. Palpi ascending, 

 apex mostly very short ; antennge filiform, crenulate, pubescent, or with remote and 

 minute setee in male. {Guenee.) 



Larva cylindrical, smooth, semi-looped, with sixteen legs, but the first middle 

 pair imperfect. 



Genus DIERNA. 



Dierna, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. p. 204 (1858). 



Nahara, Walker, id. xxxiii. p. 1004 (1865). 



Wings short : forewing broad, subfalcate, exterior margin slightly convex ; cell 



extending more than half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-half before end 



of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, third from very close to base of second, and 



fourth from very near end of third, fifth from end of cell and shghtly touching third 



near its base ; discocellular concave, bent near each end, radials from the angles ; 



middle median fi^om angle very close to end of cell, lower at one-third ; submedian 



recui-ved: hindwing broad, somewhat quadrate, apex convex, exterior margin 



abruptly truncated from end of lower median, abdominal margin very short ; cell 



two-fifths the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular very slender, 



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