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almost touching an irregular spot on anal angle ; a large roundish 

 apical spot, cut before its middle by a whitish Hne curved parallel 

 to anterior margin, before which the ochreous colour is brighter ; 

 two faint waved blackish lines running from apical spot to inner- 

 marginal, representing second and subterminal ; a row of cloudy- 

 blackish hind-marginal marks; cilia light green, tips whitish, 

 round apical spot wholly ochreous. Hind wings pale whitish- 

 ochreous ; a rather broad cloudy dark grey hind-marginal band, 

 suffused with whitish-ochreous towards margins on apex and lower 

 half of hind margin ; cilia whitish-ochreous, with a basal series 

 of dark grey marks. 



One specimen {Sayer). Differs from H. repugnans, 

 which it nearly resembles, by the green ground colom*, 

 the orbicular pale and distinct and nearer reniform, and 

 the reniform larger and not dark-centred. 



Thyrsoscelis, n. g. 



Ocelli present ; eyes naked ; tongue developed. Antennae in 3' 

 moderately ciliated (1). Palpi moderate, ascending, second joint 

 with dense tolerably appressed scales, terminal joint short, obtuse. 

 Thorax not crested. Abdomen in <? very densely hairy beneath 

 and on sides, and with long apical hairs. Legs densely scaled, 

 tibiae not spinose, posterior tibiae and three basal joints of tarsi in 

 (^ clothed with very dense long hairs above, in $ posterior tibiae 

 only clothed with moderate hairs above. Fore wings with veins 

 6, 7, 8 out of 9, 10 connected with 9 by bar. Hind wings with 

 veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 nearly approximated, 6 and 7 short- 

 stalked. 



50. Thyrsoscelis iridias, n. s. 

 (? ? , 46 — 48 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, and thorax rather 

 dark brown. Abdomen grey, apical hairs in ^ light reddish. 

 Legs hght fuscous-reddish, sprinkled with ochreous-whitish, pos- 

 terior pair reddish-whitish. Fore wings very elongate-triangular, 

 costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, hind margin strongly bowed, 

 very oblique ; dull reddish-ochreous, suffusedly irrorated with 

 purplish-fuscous towards inner margin and apex ; lines hardly 

 paler, first straight, posteriorly margined with purplish-fuscous, 

 from one-fourth of costa to three-fifths of inner margin, second 

 anteriorly margined with purplish-fuscous, from costa at three- 

 fifths, straight and parallel to first mitil nearly reaching hiud 

 margin, where it is suddenly bent round to anal angle ; reniform 

 indicated in $ by an u-regular darker suffusion ; cilia reddish- 



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