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marginal line, and a spot at caudal angle of hiiidwing. Underside of male pale 

 cinereous-brown, of female pure white. Front of head, palpi, and forelegs above 

 dark brown. 



Expanse, $ 1 i%, ? 1 tV inch. 



Genus PSEUDOMICRONIA. 



Intermediate between Strophidia and Mlcroiiia. Wings shaped, and with like 

 pattern of markings, as those in Strophidia. Forewing with the first subcostal at 

 half before end of cell, second approximate, trifid, fifth and sixth on a footstalk at 

 one-sixth beyond end of cell ; discocellular slender, bent in middle, radial from angle ; 

 medians distorted, upper branch much recurved, middle and lower at one-half before 

 end of cell ; folds between the veins prominent : hindwing with the cell triangular, 

 one-third the length ; two subcostals from end ; discocellular outwardly-oblique, very 

 slender, radial from above middle, two upper medians from end of cell, lower at two- 

 fifths. Palpi short, slender, not extending to the front, apical joint short ; anteunce 

 flattened, with a minute fine seta from each joint in front ; legs rather short, thick, 

 middle and hind tibiae not pilose ; hind tibiae not inflated, spurs long. 



Tyjje, P. caslata.* 



PSEUDOMICRONIA FRATERNA (Plate 203, Fig. 2, j ). 

 White. Forewing crossed by five bands composed of very delicate pale cinereous- 

 brown strigose-lines, the costal ends of which are blackish ; the two basal bands 

 formed by eight equidistant lines, the two middle bands filled up with strigte : 

 hindwing with four transverse pale cinereous-brown fasciaa, and a submarginal 

 strigose fascia ; marginal slender line, and caudal spot black. Palpi and forelegs 

 above browm. Underside of both sexes pure white. 



Expanse 1 nr to 2 inches. 



Genus PIGIA. 



Figia, Guenee, Phal. ii. p. 20 (1857) ; Walkor, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 813 (1861). 



Wings small. Forewing triangular, apex acute and subfalcate ; cell long, nearly 

 two-thirds the length; first subcostal at half before end of cell, second at two-fifths, 

 quadrifid, slightly touching first above the base of fifth, sixth from end of cell; 

 discocellular inwardly-oblique, radial from the middle ; the middle median at one-sixth, 

 lower at two fifths : hindwing short, triangular, exterior margin slightly convex ; cell 

 fully half the length ; first subcostal near the end ; discocellular erect, radial from 

 the middle ; the middle median near end, lower at half. Body slender ; palpi small, 

 curved, squamous, third joint short, pointed ; antennae with fine short tufted cilife ; 



* F. calata, Micronia camlata, Walk, {nee Fabricius). An allied Indian species. 



