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posterior wings purplish fuscous, costa and inner marsjin 

 narrowly edo;ed with yellow, pterostigma and a spot at the 

 margin in each apical cell also yellow. 



A single specimen in the British Museum, taken at Ran- 

 noch, Perthshire, by the late Mr. Foxcroft. 



I regret that, in consequence of the single example being 

 a female, I am unable to say what differences the anal ap- 

 pendages may present, but it has an appearance quite distinct 

 from the recorded species, .in which the dark fuscous coloration 

 occupies the gj-eater portion of the anterior wings, w^hich are 

 thickly maculated with round, regularly formed, yellow spots. 

 It is by far the handsomest species of the group. 



Genus Aphelocheira, Stephens. 



This genus was accidentally omitted in the Synopsis ; the 

 following brief enumeration of its characters will serve to 

 distinguish it from other genera of Hy dropsy chi dee. An- 

 tennee scarcely as long as the wings, distinctly serrated 

 within, basal joint very short ; maxillary palpi, the four first 

 joints of nearly equal length, terminal joint scarcely so long 

 as the others united; head very pilose, ocelli absent; spurs 2, 

 4, 4; intermediate tibise not dilated in the female ; anterior 

 wings very short, narrow at the base, but expanding greatly 

 towards the apex, which is very obtusely rounded; clothing of 

 hair short, but rather thick; discoidal cell closed, four trans- 

 verse veins, the last at the point where the ramus thyrifer 

 furcates ; posterior wings short and broad. 



Stephens in his *^ Illustrations" describes two species 

 under the names oi flavomaculata and suhaurata. In his 

 collection the first of these names had no representative, and 

 there evidently had never been a specimen inserted abov^ 

 that name as it stood ; in fact, there was no pin hole, and under 

 his general label " subaitrata'' are many specimens of what, 



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