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vein 3 from angle of cell : 4, 5 stalked ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 7 given off from 8 before 9; 10, 11 free. Hindwing with vein 

 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 and 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



Sect. I. (Sindris). — Palpi upturned, smooth, widely 



separated and extending well in front of frons, 



the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd long 



and acuminate. 



Type. (1). SiNDRis sganzini, Boisd., Faun. Madag., Delagoa Bay, 



p. 122, pi. 16, fig. 10 . . . . Madagascar. 



Sect. II. Palpi of male as in Sect. I. ; of female straight 

 and porrect, extending about three times length of 

 head. 



(2). f SiNDRIS CERVINALIS, n. Sp. 



Head whitish, collar orange fulvous, thorax grey, abdomen 

 yellow. Forewing uniform grey brown. Hindwing fulvous 

 yellow, cilia of both wings whitish. 



Hab. Accra, W. Africa. Exj). 6 2i, 9 38 mm. 



Sect. III. (Episindris) . — Palpi of both sexes as in female 

 of Sect. II. 



(3). SiNDRis ALBiMACULALis, Rag., Ann. Ent. E. and W. 

 Soc. Fr., 1891, p. 113 . . . . Africa. 



Genus Mapeta. 



Mapeta, Wlk., xxvii., 17 (1863). 



HomalocJiroa, Led., Wien Eut. Mon., 1863, p. 332. 



Palpi porrect, slender, curved downwards and extending about 

 twice the length of head, maxillary palpi filiform ; proboscis well 

 developed ; fi'ons rounded ; antenna; simple ; tibiae smoothly scaled. 



Mapeta xanthomelalis, $ , \. 



the outer spurs about half the length of inner. Forewing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; G from upper 



