DEPALPATA 



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tips. Underside of both wings with the cilia mostly white , no 

 fold and fringe of hair on inner area. 



I Lab. Solomon Is., Isabel I., type f 6 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 02 niillim. 



Genus DEPALPATA. 



Type. 



Depalpata, Roths. A. M. N. H. (9) iii. p. 488 (1919) mirabilis. 



Proboscis aborted and non-functional ; palpi with the 2nd and 3rd joints 

 minute, aborted, and curved downwards ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennas of male hardly dilated towards tips ; thorax clothed with thick 

 woolly pile ; tibiae smoothly scaled, the spurs minute, the hind tibiaj with the 

 terminal spurs only ; abdomen short and broad with some rough hair at base 

 of dorsum. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved ; vein 2 from long before angle of cell ; 3 from close to angle ; 4, 5 

 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the coll near 

 base only ; the underside in male with the whole inner area from near base 

 clothed with rough androconia extending into the lower end of cell and to 

 vein 3. 



In key differs from Parothria in the proboscis and palpi being aborted and 

 tho frons without prominence. 



* 25 a. Depalpata mirabilis. 



Depalpata mirabilis, Roths. A. M. N. H. (9) iii. p. 488 (1919). 



c? . Head and thorax black-brown ; a golden yellow ring round 

 neck and the tegulae golden yellow at tips ; abdomen metallic 

 greenish blue with the hair at base black-brown and the anal tuft 

 orange-yellow ; pectus below the shoulders and fore wings and the 

 coxae orange-yellow ; ventral surface of abdomen with white band 



Fig. 104. — Depalpata mirabilis, <5 • 



at base of 2nd segment. Fore wing very dark chocolate-brown 

 with a rather oblique ochreous yellow antemedial band with slightly 

 sinuous edges. Hind wing brilliant metallic greenish blue, the 

 inner area blick-brown except at vein 1 and inner margin; white 

 subbasal patches in and below the cell ; cilia ochreous white towards 



