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indicate the real genetic transition between these groups ; it is therefore of 

 much interest. The family chai-actera are as follows : — 



Head rough or loosely haired ; tongue short or absent. Antennas about |, 

 simple. Labial palpi ascending or porrected, second joint rough-scaled, terminal 

 joint pointed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Forewings with 1 bifurcate, 2 from 

 § — I of cell, 3 from or near angle, 8 and 9 stalked or coincident, 11 from beyond 

 middle. Hindwings trapezoidal, lower margin of cell without basal pecten of hau-s; 

 3 and 4 connate, stalked, or coincident, 5 parallel, 6 and 7 long-stalked, 8 free. 



Chlidanota, n. g. 



Head rough ; tongue apparently absent. Labial palpi moderate, porrected, 

 second joint broadly dilated with rough scales towards apex above and 

 beneath, terminal joint moderate, tolerably pointed. AntennfE about ^, simple. 

 Posterior tibiae with loosely ap pressed hairs. ^Forewings with 2 fr om befor e \, 



3 from angle, much curved, 4 absent, 5 straight, 7 absent, 8 and 9 long-stalked, jptUj. 4 (3 

 10 from near 8, 11 from | of cell. Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, cilia | ; 4 absent 



upper margin of cell bent upwards near angle. 



Chlidanota thriambis, n. sp. 



$. 28 mm. Head and thorax white, shoulders very narrowly fuscous. Palpi 

 white, basal joint and lower half of second dark fuscous. Antennae, grey. Abdo- 

 men light greyish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, costa gently arched, apex round- 

 pointed, termen rather strongly emarginate beneath apex, obliquely rounded be- 

 neath ; whitish, irregularly suffused with;pale brownish, and strigulated through- 

 out with grey, partly mixed with dark fuscous ; a grey suffusion along costa from 

 before middle to near apex, including some irregular ferruginous-brown strigulas 

 two sharply-defined blackish-fuscous dorsal spots, reaching half across wing, first- 

 at ^, forming an irregular narrow rectangularly bent mark, its apex directed pos- 

 teriorly, second rather broader, erect, anterior e^ge angulated near dorsum, pos- 

 terior nearly straight ; a round white apical spot, marked with one or two minute 

 blackish strigulse towards costa anteriorly, and a fine black curved line mixed 

 w.th brown travelling just within circumference on outer half, its lower extremity 

 shortly produced directly inwards; some irregular black dots or marks on termen: 

 <5ilia brown, darker round apex, whitish-suffused on tornus and above apex. 

 Hindwings fuscous ; cilia light fuscous, becoming whitish-fuscous towards tornus.. 



One specimen, Ceylon (Pole). 



Electracma, n, g. 



Head loosely haired ; tongue short. Labial palpi moderate, curved, ascending, 

 second joint with rough projecting tuft of scales beneath, terminal joint bhorter 

 than second, loosely scaled, acute. Antennae f , in $ simple. Posterior tibiiu 

 loosely haired above. Forewings with 2 from f, 3 from angle, much curved, 



4 closely approximated to 3 at base, 5 remote, straight, 6 to apex, 9 absent, U 

 from f, Hindwings 1, trapezoidal, cilia | ; 3 and 4 stalked. 



Electracma hemichroa, n, sp. 



^ 9 . 12-13 mm. Head fuscous, face white. Palpi white, somewhat fuscous- Q/^ " 

 sprinkled towards base. Thorax white, anteriorly suffused with rather dark 



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