BIHANG TILL K. SV. VET.-AKAD. HANDL. BAND 27. AFD. IV. N:0 7. 7 



/?. Mid tibisB normal and unarmed. Vein 8 of hind- 

 wing approximated to vein 7. First tarsal joint 

 of the före legs with two, curved spines. Före 

 tibise unarmed. 11. Sabalia. 



1. Striphnopteryx Wallengr. 



< Breata Walk. List 4, p. 902 (1855). 



= Striphnopteryx Wallengr. Öfvers. Sv. Vet. Ak. Förh. 

 15, p. 209 (1858); typus B. edulis Boisd. 



Proboscis aborted. Palpi porrect, reaching well beyond 

 the fröns; the 3:rd joint distinct, obtuse, as long as broad. 

 Antennse very long, reaching 

 beyond the apex of the cell of 

 före wing, broadly bipectinate. 

 Före tibias unarmed, hind tibiae 

 with 2 spurs only. Wings very 

 broad. Före wing with vein 3 

 from well before angle of cell, 

 5 from below upper angle, 6 

 free from upper angle, 7 + 8 + 9 

 stalked from just before upper 

 angle, 10 absent, 11 free from 

 cell near upper angle; the lower 

 discocellular is very long and 

 shortly angled at its upper 

 end, the middle discocellular is 

 straight and erect. Hind wing 

 with vein 5 much nearer to 

 upper angle of cell, 6 and 7 

 separate, but nearly from the 

 same point, 8 arched at base and 

 nearly touching the middle of cell but not connected with 

 it by a bar; lower discocellular very long, nearly straight, 

 moderately oblique, not angled, middle discocellular straight 

 and rather erect. Frenulum short and weak in the male, 

 retinaculum absent. 

 1. 8. edulis Boisd. Voy. Deleg. 2, p. 599 (1847). — Walker 



List 4, p. 903 (1855). — Wallengr. Vet. Akad. Handl. 



5: 4, p. 28 (1865). 



Cape Colony. Natal. 



Fig. 1. Striphnopteryx edulis ef. 



