(-153 ) 

 122. Lapara halicarniae. 



Sp}iinx halicamine Strecker, Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. iii. p. 35. fig. (1880) (Florida). 

 Eredrium halicarniae, Grote, New Check List p. 11 (1882); Smith, Tram. Aincr. Enl. Sue. xv. 

 p. 211 (1888) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Bet. i. p. 698. n. 1 (18(12). 



? . Only one specimen is known. It represents possiljly a separate genus, for 

 which the name Exedriiun (1888) as defined by Smith, ^.c, will have to be retained. 

 We do not see any necessity, at present, to keep halicarniae generically separate. 

 Strecker's figure is quite insufficient to base a genus upon ; the specimen requires 

 examination as to structure. 



Hah. Florida, type in coll. Strecker. 



Not seen. 



XXXVI. THAMNOECHA gen. nov.— Typus : unifornus. 



llylmcm, Butler (hw; Hubner, 1822), Proc. Zool. Soc. Land. p. 261 (1875). 



Psewlosphiiix, Hampson (noii Burmeister, 1856), in Blanf., Fauna Brit. Ind., Mollis i. p. 1U6 (1892). 



i. Antenna long (tip broken off in the three specimens seen), distinctly 

 narrowed at the base, the segments not touching one another ventrally, middle ones 

 feebly dilated laterad subdorsally, almost as long as high, transsectiou little higher 

 than broad. Pilifer with brush of bristles. Palpus small, rough. Tongue short. 

 Tibiae not spiny ; spurs very short, proximal pair of hindtibia absent ; no pnlvillns, 

 paronychium very small, tvithout lobes ; first segment of foretarsus with four long 

 spines, the apical one nearly half the length of the segment, second segment as 

 long as the first. 



Tenth abdominal tergite (PI. XXVI. f 34) narrow, curved, pointed, compressed ; 

 sternite broad (PI. XXVI. f. 35), obtuse, feebly sinuate at end. Harpe (PI. XXV. 

 f. 17) narrow, without patch of modified scales, subdorsal fold of inner surface high, 

 with bristles ; harpe simple, not dentate, ending in an obtuse process. Penis-sheath 

 (PL XXVIII. f. 47) thin, prolonged into a flat, feebly concave process curving side- 

 ways, ending in a very short pointed hook. 



? . Unknown. 



Larva and chrysalis unknown. 



Ilab. North-West India. 



One species. 



A development from the ancestor of llyloicus caligineus and oberthueri ; the 

 complete loss of the pro.ximal pair of spurs from the hindtibia is a noteworthy 

 character. 



123. Thamnoecha uniformis. 



*l/yloinis uni/ormiK Butler, I.e. (1875) (N. W. Himal. ;— Mus. Brit., J) ; id., Trans. Zool. Soc. 



Ijond. ix. p. 616. n. 4 (1877). 

 *Piieu(losphinj- coiicolor Hampson, /.'•. p. 106. n. 170 (1892) (Subathu, Simla, ^ ; — Mus. Brit.). 

 Byloicua concolor, Kirby, Nov. Zool. i. p. 10;i (1894) (Simla). 



S. Ifesembling in colour to a certain extent small sjiecimens of llyloicus 

 pinastri and calicjineux. 

 Uab. N. W. India. 

 Three <J <J in the British Museum. 



