( 437) 



$, 26-28 mm. Differs as follows: Foreioing above rather less bright green 

 and with a very large blotch (either grey or pnrple-red) from tornns to R*, 

 encroaching into cell, on posterior margin occn]>ying at least one-third of wing, on 

 termen reaching at least to M-, its proximal edge more or less indented between M 

 and SM" ; a narrow distal border of the same colour adjoining the blotch, becoming 



wider round the wing-excision but very narrow again at apex. Uiiuhring grey, 



faintly violaceous, in the red-blotched examples strongly suffused with reddish, 

 especially towards inner margin ; distinct traces of a darker, pale-edged median 

 line, slightly concave; fringes less darkly marked than in $. Underside grey, 

 except costal edge of forewing ; both wings (especially forewing) with some reddish 

 suffusion basally. 



Mount Goliath, January — February 1011 (A. S. Meek), a good series of both 

 sexes in coll. Rothschild ; the type S dated February. 



Bather variable apart from the sexual dimorphism. In one <J, in which the 

 normally j)resent spot is abnormally large and crosses M', there is a second, similar 

 but much smaller spot posterior to it, touching M'^ Two ? ? taken in January, both 

 red-blotched, vary in the depth of the colour, and one has a distinct red line along 

 R^ and red bar along R^ connecting the blotch with the distal border. 



Dichordophora gen. nov. 



Face smooth. Palpus rather strong, second joint reaching beyond frons, rough- 

 scaled above and beneath, third joint distinct, moderate. Tongue developed. 

 Antenna in both sexes pectinate to beyond three-fourths, the branches in 3 rather 

 long, in ? short. Pectus somewhat hairy. Femora nearly glabrous. Hindtibia 

 in S not dilated, in both sexes with terminal spurs only. Abdomen not crested. 

 Frenulum wanting in both sexes. Wings with termen entire. Forewing with cell 

 less than one-half, D(_' strongly incurved, SC from cell, free, or anastomosing with 

 C, or with (! and SC-, M' not stalked ; hindwiug with cell less one-half, DC'^ strongly 

 curved, C approximated to cell to about one-half, then rapidly diverging, 8C^ stalked, 

 M' .separate. 



Type of the genus : Dichordophora phoenix (Prout) = Dichorda (?) phoenix 

 Prout, Gen. Ins. 129 p. 128. 



I described the type species from the ¥ sex only, and was consequently unaware 

 of the absence of the c? frenulum ; but a reference — even provisional — to Dichorda 

 was quite inexcusable, indicating an insufficient examination, for I find the ? hind- 

 tibia lacks the median spurs. Through the kindness of Mr. J. A. Orossbeck, who 

 has sent me the S , I am now able to give a correct generic account of the species. 

 It is quite distinct from the other two-spurred genera of the New World in which 

 the (? frennlnm is absent {Anomphax, Eiicrostes, and ? Dyscheilia). Without 

 disarranging the existing key to the genera, it can be introduced in No. 9 thus : 



Palpus moderately long, rough-scaled ; hindwing with C approximated to cell 

 to about one-half Dirhordophora. 



lul. Omphacodes minima spec. nov. 

 S, IG mm. Face reddish ';' (discoh)nreil) : vertex white, occiput green. Palpus 

 with second joint rather long, third joint moderate. Tongue apjiarcntly wanting. 

 Antenna! shaft white, pectinations long, hrownisii. Thorax and alidomen dorsally 

 green, spotted with cream-colour. 



