MlCnOXIWyE. 4r)0 



RAMBAKA SAPONARIA (Pi.atk 2u;!, Vu;. 8). 



Zanrloptrnjr. sapnmvm, Gueiico, Tiial. ii. p. 16 (18o7) ; W.ilkcr, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. slO 

 (1861). 



Wings semidiaplianoLis, opalescent white ; crossed hy a zigzag discal and sub- 

 marginal very indistinct pale-broAvn lunulur l)and, and a marginal row of minute 

 black spots : forewing also with a l)lack spot at end of cell, and a subbasal series of 

 pale-brown spots : liindwing with a pale-brown lunular cell spot. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Family MICRONIIDiE. 



Wings delicate, mostly rather large and broad : hindwing very generally angular, 

 dentate, or notched ; finely speckled or streaked on the upper side, plain and without 

 design on the underside. Body slender ; head large, front depressed ; eyes 

 prominent ; proboscis rather stout ; palpi very slender, almost always straight, third 

 joint filiform, often long and spatuJate; antennae short, laterally compressed, 

 tomentose or pectinated in the male; legs mostly short, rather stout, tarsi smootli. 



Larva unknown. 



Genus STROPHIDIA. 



Siroplddia, Hiibuer, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 290 (1818-25); Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 16-5 ; 



West wood, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 514. 

 Micronia, (part), Guenee. Walker. 



Male. Forewing broad, triangular ; costa arched, apex acute, exterior margin 

 straio-ht ; cell one-third the length, triangular in shape ; first subcostal at one-fourth 

 before end of cell, second and third approximate, second free, third bifid, fifth and 

 sixth on a footstalk at one-third beyond the cell ; discocellular very slender, nearly 

 erect, radial from above the middle ; median veins straight, the two upper medians 

 from end of cell, lower at one-half ; submedian with a short slender lower basal 

 branch : hindwing short, broad, quadrate, exterior margin with an acute prolonged 

 subcaudal angle ; cell one-third the length, broad ; first subcostal close to end ; 

 discocellular outwardly-oblique, very slender, radial from above the middle; two 

 upper medians from end of cell, lower at nearly half. Body slender, shorter than the 

 hindwings ; palpi very slender, obliquely porrect, third joint very long, acicular ; 

 antennge slender, setaceous; legs squamous, longer than in Acropteris 

 (A. gravimearia, Hiibner) and Micronia ; middle tibia not pilose, spurs unequal ; 

 hind tibifB thickened, clothed above with fine long silky hairs, spurs stout. 

 Type, S. fasciata. 



