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1 5 ,Iiio Ni'gro, Manuos (Trumhill), 1 J, Sao Paulo (Jones), 1 J. 

 E.rp. 42-56 millim. 



Larva. Ked-brown ; the head, 1st and terminal somites, and 

 prolegs orange ; mandibles and two spots on each hemisphere 

 brown; M'arts dark brown, vi. surrounded by a yellow ring; 

 somites 2-10 with numerous small yellow spots, the series afc 

 back of each somite lare;er, 11 with some slight yellow marks; 

 anal shield edged with black ; legs and prolegs black at tips ; each 

 Avart with one hair. 



Genus ADAPH^NURA, nov. 



Type, A. mimiscula. 



Pi-oboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 3rd joint rather 

 long aud dilated at extremity; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna; of 

 female (Mliated ; head and thorax clothed witii rough liair and without crests ; 

 tibia; fringed with rough hair ; abdomen clothed with rougli hair, with bisal 

 and (?) a dorsal series of crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded and the 

 ternien obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; B from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; II from cell. 

 Hnid wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from ndddle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



1806. Adapliaenura minuscula. 



Baphanura mhiiiscula, Butl. Cist. Eut. iii. p. 3 (1882) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 204. 



2 . Head black ; thorax crimson, the pectus and legs black ; 

 abdomen black, the last three segments crimson above and at 

 sides. Fore wing fuscous suffused with deep sap-green and with 

 narrow orange-yellow bands ; a subbisal band from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; a somewhat sinuous antemedial band ; two medial 



Fig. 132. — Adaphcenura luhtiiscula, J. \. 



bands, the outer with spot bej-ond it beyond discocellulars ; a post- 

 medial band excurved from costa to vein 4, then obli(iue ; a curved 

 subterminal band. Hind wing orange-yellow : the costal area 

 black and some black scales on inner area ; a discoidal sjjot and a 

 terminal baud expanding somewhat towards apex. 



Hah. Madagascar, Eetsileo {Cowan), 1 $ type in very bad con- 

 dition. Exp. 32 millim. 



