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Genus. BUCIARA. 

 Buciara, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 3G (1869) 



Type. 

 bipartita. 



Proboscis fully developed ; pal]3i upturned, the 1st aud 2nd joints fringed 

 with long hair in front, the 3rd porreet, rather long ; frons smooth ; antennte 

 of male bipectiuate with moderate branches to three-fourths, the apical part 

 simple ; prothorax with spreading crest, metathorax with large crest ; iiiud 

 tibire with one spine between the spurs; abdomen with dorsal crests on 2nd 

 and ord segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and .3 from near angle of cell ; 6 

 froQi upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with S to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell ; the inner margin with slight scale-teeth near base and towards tornus, 

 the termen crenulate and slightly angled at vein 3. Hind wing with veins 3, 

 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 0, 7 from 

 upper angle ; the termen crenulate and excised at discal fold. 



223. Buciara bipartita. 



Buciara blparfifa, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 36 (1869). 

 Acti/iof/a aciiinphora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 370. 



S . Head and thorax grej- mixed with reddish-brown and l)lack ; 

 palpi and irons with blackish patches ; black streaks across tegulie ; 

 patagia at extremities aud metathoracic crest black ; abdomen grey, 

 dorsally tinged with fuscous brown, the crests black. Fore \\ing 

 grey, irrorated with fuscous aud suffused in parts with reddish brown; 



Fig. 42. — Buciara bipartita, $ . \. 



the subbasal line represented bj^ a double oblique striga from costa ; 

 the autemedial line double, strongly angled outwards below costa 

 and cell and above inner margin and inwards on median nervure 

 and vein 1 ; orbicular very narrow, oblique, with brown centre and 

 grey annulus defined by black ; reniform with indistinct grey 

 annulus defined by black on inner side ; postmedial line double at 

 costa, then indistinct, angled outwards below costa, incurved at 

 discal fold, somewhat dentate at median nervules, angled inwards 

 to autemedial line in submedian fold, then prominent, double, angled 

 outwards above vein 1 and filled in and defined on outer side by 

 whitish ; an oblique diffused dark bar from apex ; the subterminal 

 line represented by black streaks in the interspaces, longest and 

 placed on a whitish patch at middle ; an oblique dark fascia with 

 dentate black marks on it from termen at vein 3 to angle of post- 

 medial line above vein 1 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; 

 cilia dark brown with grey line at base. Hind wing white, the 

 terminal half fuscous; cilia white intersected with brown. The 



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