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PSYCHE. 



[June-Sept. 1S94. 



narrowly oblong. The third joint is lanceo- 

 late and erected. The palpi are not com- 

 pressed, but are not widely separated, and 

 project far beyond the front. The antennae 

 in the male are very heavily doubly pecti- 

 nate ; in the case of the female simple. The 

 first pair of legs in the case of the male and 

 female have the femora and the tibiae 

 heavily clothed with hairs. The second pair, 

 in the case of the male, have the tibiae 

 armed with two terminal spurs, and the 

 outer margin covered with an enormous 

 brush of hairs. In the case of the female, 

 the second pair of legs are not armed with 

 the spur and are very scantily clothed with 

 hair. The third pair of legs in the case of 

 the male are long, very scantily clothed with 

 hairs, and armed with long double median 

 and terminal spurs. In the case of the 

 female, the third pair of legs are armed with 

 double median and terminal spurs, but are 

 devoid of hairy vestiture. The primaries 

 are subtriangular, elongated, with the costa 

 straight for three-fourths of its distance from 

 the base, slightly rounded before the apex. 

 The apex is truncate, the outer angle evenly 

 rounded, the inner margin almost straight. 

 The secondaries have the costa straight, or 

 very slightly convex before the base. The 

 inner margin is straight; the outer margin is 

 evenly rounded to near the anal angle, which is 

 truncate. Type Deinypciia lacista-, Holland. 



very indistinctly annulated with pale brown. 

 On the upper side both wings are dark 

 brown. From the apex of the primaries a 

 straight diagonal line of blackish runs to the 

 middle of the inner margin and is continued 

 across the secondaries. There is a narrow 

 curved blackish sub-basal line on the prim- 

 aries. There are one or two minute pale 

 spot.s in the cell of the primaries, an obscure 

 ochreous reniform spot, and in both prim- 

 aries and secondaries an irregular curved 

 series of obscure ochreous markings. The 

 fringes are dark brown. On the under side 

 both wings are dark sooty-fuscous w-ith the 

 apex and the outer margin of the primaries 

 laved with obscure pale wood-brown or 

 yellowish. There are minute pale discal 

 spots at the end of the cell in both wings 

 followed by an incomplete and obscure 

 blackish transverse median band, beyond 

 which are bright yellowish submarginal 

 spots arranged in echelon. The fringes are 

 dark brown. 



J. The female is marked like the male, but 

 is prevalently bright chestnut-brown on the 

 upper side of the wing, with the lower side 

 of the wing paler and the spots nearly pure 

 yellow. The tibiae of the first and second 

 pair of legs, as well as the tarsi, in the female 

 are marked with pure white bands. Expanse, 

 (J and $, 60 mm. Habitat Benita and 

 Kangw^. 



109. D. lacisia, sp. nov. (J. The palpi 

 are very dark brown externally, internally 

 pale yellowish. The antennae are black. 

 The front is dark brown, or blackish. The 

 collar and upper side of the thorax are dark 

 chestnut-brown. The upper side of the 

 abdomen is dark fuscous. The lower side 

 of the thorax and the abdomen are dark 

 brown. The legs are dark brown with the 

 hairy fringes on the tibiae of the second 

 pair of the male bright yellowish-chestnut. 

 The spurs of the first and second pair in the 

 male together with the upper ends of the 

 tibiae are white. The tarsi are blackish. 



no. D. lathetica, sp. nov. ?. Palpi dark 

 brown, front pale brown. Collar fawn. The 

 upper side of the thorax fawn, with the tips 

 ofthepatagia paler. The upper side of the 

 abdomen pale fawn. The lower side of the 

 thorax is obscure fuscous. The lower side of 

 the abdomen is paler, inclined to whitisli. 

 The legs are fuscous. The tarsi are obscurely 

 ringed with paler fuscous. The primaries 

 on the upper side are obscure fawn with two 

 pale circular spots about the middle of the 

 cell, the uppermost slightly advanced beyond 

 the lower, which latter is the larger. There 

 is a large pale reniform spot at the end of 



