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Subfamily ACRONYCTINAE. 



30. Trachea brunneicosta, sp. nov. 



(Plate LXI, fig. 7.) 



(J $. Upperside. Forewing with costa and post-medial band 

 pale rufous-brown; subbasal line marked by a dark dot on costa, 

 a greenish spot on median, and a dark streak below submedian; 

 antemedial line double, oblique, incurved in the cell, filled in with 

 green below 1&, and bordered proximally by a greyish-lilac band 

 twice its width ; orbicular and reniform of moderate size, green 

 with some brown scaling in centre ; postmedial line double, waved, 

 excurved beyond cell, then oblique to inner margin, bordered distally 

 by a greyish-lilac band twice its width; subterminal line dentate, 

 more or less edged with black proximally in cellules 5 and 6 ; marginal 

 band sap-green and traversed only by a darker band; margin 

 finely edged with black ; fringe proximally greenish-yellow, distally 

 smoky-brown ; median and basal area below cell and vein 2 green, 

 darker distally of the antemedial line; cell traversed by a black 

 longitudinal streak, which is most heavily marked between end of 

 cell and postmedial line. Hindwing smoky-grey; an indistinct 

 discocellular spot and curved postmedial line; fringe yellowish 

 proximally, dirty-white outwardly. 



Underside. Forewing buff; costa and cell from base to a little 

 beyond smoky-black; subterminal line faintly indicated; inner 

 margin towards base clothed with scales giving a metallic greenish 

 reflection in a side-light. Hindwing bufif; a well-marked dis- 

 cocellular spot and curved irregular postmedial line ; costa narrowly 

 blackish ; outer narrow marginal border paler than ground-colour. 



Head and thorax reddish-brown mixed with green; abdomen 

 smoky -grey above, paler laterally, tawny beneath; legs reddish- 

 brown, tarsi black and apices of segments buflf. 



Length of forewing : 19 mm. 



1 c^, 1 ?• 



Clavipalpa, gen. nov. 

 (Plate LXI, fig. 8a.) 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi with second segment reaching 

 to about middle of frons, third segment long, naked, porrect, ex- 

 tremity clavate ; frons rounded ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae 

 of cJ with fascicles of cilia ; thorax clothed with hair ; pectus clothed 

 with hair; femora fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests 

 on basal segments, and lateral tufts ; forewing narrow with a some- 

 what produced apex, margin crenulate; neuration as in allied 

 genera. 



