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end ; discocellular slightly oblique and concave, radial from above the middle ; the 

 middle median close to end of cell, lower at two-fifths. Body robust ; palpi porrect, 

 short, clothed with coarse lax scales, apex short, obtuse ; antennas rather broadly 

 bipectinated in male, the branches slender, finely ciliated, and each ending in a short 

 fascicle; legs smoothly squamous; middle tibise with a pair of slender spurs; hind 

 tibiiB thickened, clothed with lax spatular scales above and furnished with a long 

 basal fascicle of fine silky hairs beneath, spurs obsolete ; hind tarsi very short. 

 Tijpe, P. ocellata. 



PROBIEPSIS DELIARIA (Plate 202, Fig. 6, ? ). 

 Argijris deliaria. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. il. xxiii. p. 808 (1861). 



White. Wings with three very indistinct outer cinereous lunular fascire : fore- 

 wing with a large discal obovate ochreous ringlet, which is iuterhned with raised 

 silver scales and has two black-speckled streaks at its lower end ; beneath it is a paler 

 ochreous silver-lined shade extending to the posterior margin : hindwing with a less 

 distinct smaller and narrower constricted paler ringlet, which is also silver- lined. 

 Vertex and palpi above cinereous-black ; front partly white ; legs ochreous. 



Expanse, <? Ittj, ? Iro inch. 



PROBLEPSIS EXTRTISATA (Plate 202, Fig. 7). 

 Ephyra extrusata. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 637 (1861), ?. 

 Lilacine whitish-cinereous. Wings thinly speckled with dark brown scales ; 

 discal and submarginal line very indistinct, zigzag, brown, the latter with blackish 

 points ; marginal points black ; cell spot on forewing elongated, constricted, ochreous, 

 incompletely ringed with silvery-black raised scales: hindwing with a narrow nearly 

 straight-ochreous silvery-lined cell spot. Front of head, palpi above, and forelegs 

 ochreous-brown. 



Expanse \-h inch. 



Genus SOMATINA. 



Somatina, Gut'uee, Phal. ii. p. 10 (1857) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 805 (1861). 

 Forewino- triangular, arched at end, apex acute, subfalcate; cell fully half the 

 length ; first subcostal at nearly half before end of cell, second at one-fourth, shghtly 

 touchino- first near its base, quadrifid, the fifth from near its base and slightly 

 touchino- second above its juncture with first, sixth from end of cell ; discocellular 

 slio-htly bent above the middle, radial from the angle ; middle median near end of 

 cell lower at one-third : hindwing broad, short, apex somewhat angular, exterior 

 maro-in even, very oblique, slightly convex, anal angle produced ; cell half the length, 

 broad ; first subcostal before end of cell ; discocellular slightly oblique, radial from 

 the middle ; the middle median near end, lower at nearly half. Body robust, thorax 



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