132 STNTOMID^. 



towards apex and between veins 5 and 3. Hind wing; with the basal 

 half orange-yellow, with irregularly dentate outer edge; the apical 

 half black, with or inge postmedial patch from below costa to vein 2. 

 Hab. Madagascar, 1 $ (C. Shaiv). Exp. 34 millim. 



*248. Thyrosticta minuta. 



Synfemis minufa, Boisd. Fauu. Madag. p. 80, pi. 11. f. 6 (1833) ; Kirby, 

 " Cat. Het. p. 106. 



$ . Head and thorax black ; vertex of head, tegulas, and a patch 

 on mesothorax orange ; abdomen orange, with dorsal black points 

 on terminal segments. Fore wing black-brown : some orange at 

 base ; a hyaline spot in cell ; two medial spots below cell, the one 

 above inner margin orange, the upper hyaline ; a hvaline spot 

 beyond ano:le of cell and one above vein 6. Hind wing orange, 

 with terminal black band dentate inwards near tornus. 



Jfah. Madagascar. Exp. 20 millim. 



This species is unknown to me. 



*249. Thyrosticta tollini. 



Glaucopis foUinii, Xeferstein, Jahrb. Akad. Erfurt, (2) vi. p. 13, f. 3 



(1870): Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 103. 

 Naclia lugens, Oberth. Et. Ent. xdii. p. 7, pi. 1. f. 14 (1893). 



2 . Black ; shoulders and fore coxse with orange patches ; ab- 

 domen with orange ventral patch on basal segments followed by 

 a spot. Fore wing with small hyaline spots in end of cell, between 

 veins 3 and 5 and above 6. Hind wing with hyaline patch below 

 base of cell bisected by vein 1 ; a spot between veins 3 and 4. 



Ab. 1. luqen'i : fore wing with small postmedial hyaline spot 

 above vein 1. 



Hah. Madagascar. Exp. 32 millim. Type lugens in Coll. 

 Oberthiir. 



Genus DYSAUXES. 



Type. 



I>i/sau.res. Hiibn. Verz. p. 171 (l''^27) ancilla. 



Naclia, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. GO (1840) aiicilla. 



Proboscis well developr>d ; paloi porrect, reaching just beyond the frons ; 

 antentife minutely ciliated ; mid tibiiB with one pair of spurs ; hind tibiae with 

 a single medial spur and a terminal pair. Fore wing with vein 3 from near 

 angle of cell : 4. 5 frou angle, 5 curved ; 6 from near upper angle ; 7, 8, 10, 11 

 stalked ; 9 absent. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 7 absent. 



A. Fore wing fulvous, with hyaline spots. 



a. Fore wing with medial spot below the cell always trace- 



able, and usually a spot in the cell ; hind wing orange 

 with brown terminal band, the area below and beyond 

 the cell often hyaline punctata. 



b. Fore wing without medial spots ; hind vring of male 



fulvous brown, the inner margin orange ; female with 



orange bind below and beyond the cell ancilla. 



