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The Ti7icBgcr!idceKXQ a Family of small tropical moths, regarded 

 as intermediate between the ^geriidcs and Gelechiidce. The 

 moths are brilliantly coloured, with long narrow wings, and 

 long fringes, a strong proboscis, and antennae long and heavily 

 fringed for the greater part of their length. The legs are long, 

 with two pairs of strong spurs on the hind tibiae ; and in several 

 species the legs and abdomen are more or less tufted. 



There is a monograph of this group by Lord Walsingham in 

 the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for 

 1889. 



Eretmocera has the antennge a little thickened in the middle, 

 and fringed on one side for two-thirds of its length; and a large 

 tuft at the tip of the abdomen. 



ERETMOCERA L^ETISSIMA. 

 {Plate CLVIIL, Fi^. i.) 



Erclinocera Iicfissi//ia, Zeller, Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh.' 

 1852. p. 100 (1854) ; Walsingham, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 

 1889, p. 33, pi. 6, fig. 17. 



Exodomorpha dtvisclla, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 

 xxix. p. 833 (1864) ; Walsingham, toni. cit. p. 34 (1889). 



This Moth inhabits tropical and sub-tropical Africa. 



Walker's description of his E. diviseUa is as follows : — " Dark 

 purplish cupreous. Head beneath, and pectus on each side, 

 pale gilded yellow. Abdomen scarlet, with a pur[)lish cupreous 

 spot near the base, which is gilded yellow ; a purplish cupreous 

 spot on each side at the tip ; under side gilded yellow, with two 

 purplish bands ; first band near the base widely interrupted ; 

 second sub-apical, entire. Fore-wings with three pale yellow 

 dots ; first dot discal, near the base ; second costal, opposite 

 the third, which is near the end of the interior border. Hind- 

 wings gilded; costa and fringe red, the latter blackish cupreous 



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