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than from the characters of Bankia. In short, there seems to be no reason- 

 able ground, as regards either structure, marking, or habitat, for continuing 

 to make two indis'lnguisbable species out of one so widely spread and so 

 eminently subject to variation. I strongly suspect that the locality, "Nova 

 Hollandia," of Fabricius' type-specimen is the original cause of Ban/cia's 

 having been so long retained as a distinct species by successive entomological 

 writers. 



Damaraland.— Coll. Tri. (J. A. Bell), et Coll. C. J. 

 Andersson. 



Natal. Ceylon. Australia.— Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Natal. Mauritius. West Africa. Sierra Leone. Ashanti. 

 Congo. North India. Nepaul. Silhet. Ceylon. Moulmein. 

 Celebes. Borneo. Australia (Moreton Bay). — Coll. Brit. 

 Mus. 



North India. Darjeeling. Java. Borneo. — Coll. E. I. C. 

 Mus. 



" Port Natal. Madagascar. Bourbon. Bengal. China. 

 Java. New Holland." — Boisd. 



" Otaheite."— Fab. 



" Querimba. Scnegambia. Guinea. Manilla." — Hopffer. 



•* China. Coromandel. Bengal. Batavia." — Drury, 

 Cramer, Godart. 



Genus GNOPHODES. 

 Gnophodes, E. Douhl. 



Imago. — Head rather large, finely hairy : eyes very pro- 

 minent, naked ; antennce slender, with a long, very slender, 

 gradually-thickened club ; palin rather short, nearly erect. 

 Thorax short, rather robust. Fore-wings with costa strongly 

 arched ; apex truncated ; hind-margin dentate, with a marked 

 projection below apex, emarginate in central portion ; inner- 

 margin convex in $ ; in the latter sex, between median and 

 suhmedian nervures, on upper-side, a large, oval tuft of hairs. 

 Hind-wings with costa nearly straight ; hind-margin scalloped, 

 with a tail -like projection at extremity of first median 

 nervule.* 



One species only is found in South Africa. Its size and 

 the peculiar outline of its wings should render it conspicuous, 

 dull-brown as its colouring is. 



* These characters, taken from Doubleday and Westwood's " Genera," 

 seem wholly to coincide with those of the Gcuus Ct/Uo, excepting only th« 

 convex inner-margin and tuft of hairs of the forewing of $ . 



