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•sat validi, vcrticeni non superantes; articulus 3"^ conicus. Antennae 

 crelirc. sctosse. Abdomen alas posticas non snperans; sexualia 

 magna. Pedes graciles, longiusculi; tibi;e posticce dilatatse; 

 tarsi postici brevissimi. Alse anticse latai, acutjie, margine exter- 

 iore vix convexo. 



Male. Body rather stout. Proboscis short. Palpi erect, 

 rather stout, not rising higher than the vertex^ 3rd joint conical, 

 not more than one-sixth of the length of the 2nd. Antennae 

 tliickly setose. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings; 

 tip A\ith lateral valves, and with a large tuft. Legs slender, 

 rather long; hind tibiae dilated; hind tarsi very short. Wings 

 T)road. Fore wings acute; exterior border very slightly rounded, 

 modei-ately oblique. 



73. Nebessa CHALYBCEATA. Mas. Pallidissime cervina; capite, 

 palpis, antennis thoraceque antico nigricantibus; tliorace albo; alis 

 fascia antemt^dia lata obliqua lineisque duabus exterioribus 

 anculosis albido marginatis linea, submarginali pallidiore diffusa 

 indistincta, puucto discoidali nigro; alis anticis fascia apud medium 

 dilatata chalylxeo suffusa, linea P exterioTT. postice nigra. 



M'ik. ^'evy pale fawn colour, testaceous whitish beneath. 

 Head, palpi, antenuce, and fore border of the thorax blackish. 

 Thorax white. Wings with a broad antemodial oblique fawn 

 eoioured band, which has darker borders; two exterior zig-zag 

 fawn coloured lines, each of which is bordered with whitish on 

 the outer side; a paler indistinct diffuse submarginal lim;; mar- 

 ginal festoon l)rown; a black point in the; disk. Fore wings witli 

 the band much dilated in the niiildle on the outer side, jmrtly 

 ovcis[)rea(l witli chalybeous; hind part of the 1st exterior line 

 black. Lengtli of the liody 7^, lines; of the wings 19 lines. 



74. ScoDiOiNA CKPiiALoTKS. .'ifiis. Cana, fusco conspersa; palpis 

 porrectis subi'ostriformibus ca[)ut sat superantilnis, articulo 3° 

 acuto miiiimo; thorace margine antico testaceo; tibiis posticis 

 subdilatatis; alis fasciis duabus fascis undulatis, fasciis duabus 

 exterioril)iis pallidiorilnis angulosis, fimbria alba, svdttus Havis 

 ni"rofusco bifasciatis; alis auticis fascia intermedia fusca undulata, 

 lasciis sulitus duabus intcrmrdiis iii-ris. 



