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area suffused with bright rufous ; subbasal line double filled in with 

 grey, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with grej', oblique, sinuous, bent inwards to inner margin; 

 orbicular creaui}' white tinged with nif'ous, rounded, connected with 

 costa by a pale mark and by pale suffusion with lower part of reni- 

 form which is narrow above, with rufous centre and creamy annulus, 

 a V-shaped blackish mark betvAcen them ; an indistinct waved 

 medial line ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, bent 

 outwards to inner margin, some pale points beyond it on costa and 

 slight dark striae on median nervules ; subterminal line slightly defined 

 by rufous on outer side and with prominent black spot before it below 

 costa, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3; 

 a fine waved terminal line ; cilia brown with pale rufous line at 

 base. Hind wing red-brown suffused with fuscous ; a fine waved 

 terminal line ; cilia rufous ; the underside rufous slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and curved waved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. SiKHiM (Atkinson, Mailer), 4 c? type. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus MEGANEPHRIA. 



Type. 



Meganephria, Hixbn. Verz. p. 206 (1827) oxyacanihm. 



Belosticta, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 357 (1S79) extensa. 



Miseiia, Hlibu. Tent. ined. (nee Treit.) oxyacanthce. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely upturned, tbe 2nd joint fringed 

 witb bair in front, tbe 3rd typically short : frons smooth ; eyes large, i-ounded ; 

 antennije of male typically bipeetinate with rather short branches to apex, of 

 female serrate ; bead and thorax smoothly clothed cbiefly with scales, the 

 tborax quadrately scaled, tbe vertex of bead, pro- and metatborax with spreading 

 crests; pectus and legs fringed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on 

 basal segments and lateral fringes of bair towards extremity. Fore wing 

 rather broad, tbe apex rounded, tbe termeu crennlate ; reins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing witb 8 to form the 

 areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3. 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell 

 near base only. 



Skct. I. Antenna; of female bipeetinate with moderate branches, the apex 

 serrate ; palpi with the .'>rd joint long. 



*2473. Meganephria tancrei. 



Miseiia tancrei, Graes. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 329 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 181. 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with ochreous white ; 

 tegulae with slight black medial line ; patagia whitish with black 

 upper edge ; tarsi fuscous with ])ale rings ; abdomen fuscous brown 

 slightly mixed with whitish, the ventral surface ochreous white 

 irrorated with brown. Fore wing greyish suffused and irrorated 

 with fuscous brown, the basal area to submedian fold and the cell 

 brownish ochreous ; subbasal lino double , waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold, in which there is a black streak with dark brown 



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