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SENERATIA PR^CIPUA (Plate 173, Fig. 2, ^, 2a ?). 

 Tluriiicfia pnrcipua, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ht't. B. M. xxxiii. p. lOoG (I860), ?. 



]\Iale and female. Dark reddish-brown, washed with pnrphsh-grey : forcwing 

 crossed by four equidistant darl-ior brown zigzag lines, and a submarginal pale 

 ochreous denticulated line, the latter ending on the costa in a broad dilated dark 

 purple-brown pale-bordered patch ; a dark brown streak also at end of the cell : 

 hindwing crossed by three equidistant medial darker brown sinuous lines, the outer 

 line with pale ochreous points. Body reddish-brown ; collar and head ochreous- 

 brown ; legs dark brown. 



Exj^anse, c? 1^-, 2 1|- inch. 



Genus HYPOSPILA. 

 ITi/pospila, Giieuee, Noct. iii. p. 358 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1577. 



Male. Forewing elongated, narrow, costa almost straight, exterior margin oblique, 

 posterior margiii convex at the base and laxly fringed in the middle ; cell narrow, 

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

 of the cell, second at one-tenth, trifid, third at one-fifth from base of second and 

 fourth at two-thirds from base of third, fifth from end of cell and slightly touching 

 third at its base ; discocellular inwardly-oblique, radials from the ends ; middle 

 median from angle immediately before end of the cell, lower at nearly one-half; sub- 

 median much recurved : hindwing short, costa arched at the base, with a naked 

 scabrous streak between the middle of costa and subcostal, and with lax long hairs 

 along the- base of median and submedian ; apex convex, exterior margin oblique, 

 convex ; cell short, broad, one-third the length ; costal vein recurved, subcostal bent 

 downward and forming upper end of the cell, first subcostal emitted from the upper 

 angle ; discocellular short, slender, radial from near lower end ; two upper medians 

 from eud of cell, lower at two-fifths ; submedian and internal vein straight. Thorax 

 moderately stout, abdomen long, slender in male, head with a prominent pointed tuft 

 in front in both sexes ; palpi ascending, second joint reaching above the eyes ; broad, 

 compressed, very laxly squamose, third joint lineai', compressed, projecting in front 

 of the head, half length of second ; antennee long, finely ciliated and with longer 

 fine lashes ; legs long, fore femora and tibiaj thickly pilose beneath, middle and 

 hind tibite clothed aliove with shorter hairs ; spurs long. 



Female. Wings somewhat broader ; body stout ; antennte setaceous : hindwing 

 with the two subcostals from end of cell. 



HYPOSPILA BOIINOIDES. 



Hypospila hoUnoides, Giienee, Noct. iii. p. 358 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Hot. B. M. xv. p. 1578. 

 Thermesia signipalpis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xv. p. 1572 (1858), ? . 



Male. FeiTuginous-brown, suffused with violet-brown in some lights : forewing 



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