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5. Bessophora, d. g. 

 Face smooth. Palpi short, porrected, rough-scaled. Antennfe 

 in 3' filiform, minutely ciliated. Thorax glabrous beneath. Pos- 

 terior tibiiE with all spurs present. Fore wings with areole double. 

 Huid wings in $ with deep hairy furrowed fold along inner mar- 

 gin on upper surface, absorbing dorsal half of wing ; 8 connected 

 with cell by bar about middle. 



Includes only the following East Asktic species. It 

 is nearly related to Lobophora, and may probably be a 

 modification of it. Cbristoph has described the genus 

 under the name of Ftychoptera, which is, however, pre- 

 occupied in the Diptera. 

 Staudingeri, Christ. 



6. Leptostegna, Christ. 

 ^ Palpi very short. Antennse in ^ shortly bipectinated. Posterior 

 tibiae with all spurs present. Fore wings with areole simple. 

 Hind wings without frenulum ('?). 



The above incomplete characters are taken from 

 Christoph, as I have not been able to obtain a sj^ecimen. 

 I judge that the genus is probably a good one, and 

 referable to this neighbourhood, but I should expect that 

 the (? would show some additional structure which has 

 been overlooked in the hind wings, and think that the 

 alleged absence of the frenulum requires confirmation. 

 The single species is East Asiatic. 

 *tenerata, Christ. 



7. Lygranoa, Biitl. 

 Face smooth. Palpi moderate, porrected, shortly rough-scaled. 

 Antennae in ^ with two minute processes on each side of each 

 jomt, emitting long fascicles of cilia. Thorax glabrous beneath. 

 Fore wings with areole double. Hind wings in S" with vein 3 

 absent, 6 and 7 separate, 8 connected with cell by bar beyond 

 middle (m ? probably normal). 



Certainly a development of the Lohophora group, but 

 its exact affinity is at present doubtful. I have not seen 

 the posterior legs, which are broken in my type, or the 

 $ . The^ 3 shows neither lobe nor fold on the inner 

 margin of the hind wings, but the difl'erences in neuration 

 from the normal type of the family probably indicate 



