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as broad as fore wings, trapezoidal-ovate, hind margin rounded, 

 inner margin in male folded longitudinally into a deep pocket 

 opening beneath, and produced at lower angle mto a strong rounded 

 lobe ; veins la, lb, and Ic apparently concealed in pocket, 3 and 4 

 remote, 6 and 7 stalked. 



This singular genus is out of place everywhere, and 

 certainly cannot be said to fall under the definition of 

 this family ; but as it seems to have most affinity here, 

 it may be allowed to remain for the present. The 

 neuration of the hind wings is such as is only found 

 otherwise in the Gelcchiadce ; but the ciliated antennae, 

 form of the palpi, long furcation of vein 1, and hind- 

 marginal termination of veins 7 and 8 of the fore wings 

 are discordant in that family. 



158. Thiilacoplcura autodoxa, n. s. 



(? , 19 — 21 mm. Head and thorax dark purphsh fuscous, mixed 

 with yellowish and whitish. Palpi white, above yellowish, a sub- 

 apical band of second joint, and terminal joint except apex black. 

 Antennae fuscous. Abdomen dark fuscous, segmental margins 

 broadly ochreous-yellow. Legs white, broadly banded with dark 

 fuscous. Fore wings broad, triangular, costa slightly arched, apex 

 obtusely roimded, hind margin rounded, not oblique ; fuscous, 

 somewhat purplish-tinged ; a streak (sometimes well-defined) from 

 base of costa to inner margin before middle, and a triangular patch 

 extending on costa from before middle to apex, and connected at 

 its apex with middle of inner margin by a dentate streak, irrorated 

 with white ; a purplish black suffusion along inner margin to 

 middle, and along submedian fold to two-thhds ; a black dot in 

 disc before middle, a second more obscure slightly beyond it on 

 fold, both sometimes obsolete, and a third larger in disc beyond 

 middle ; a cloudy ochreous-yellowish spot on costa at two-thirds, 

 and a second before apex, whence proceeds a cloudy dentate 

 yellowish line to anal angle, preceded in middle by a pm'plish 

 black suffusion ; a hind-marginal row of ochreous-yellowish dots ; 

 cilia light fuscous-grey, becoming dark grey at apex and anal angle, 

 with a dark grey basal line. Hind wings ochreous-yellow, with a 

 broad blackish border all round except on costa ; cilia ochreous- 

 yellow, round apex blackish. 



Fiji {MatJicw, Lucas) ; two specimens. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1886. PART III. (OCT.) X 



