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Genus STILBINA. 



Type. 

 Stilbina, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 290 (1891) hypanides. 



Proboscis aborted ; palpi porrect, sbort, moderately fringed with hair below, 

 tbe 3rd joint minute ; irons with long bilobed corneous process with tuft of 

 hair above it and shorter corneous plate below it excised in front ; eyes large, 

 round ; antenna? of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; build slender ; 

 thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, the prothorax with spreading crest, 

 the metathorax with decumbent crest ; tibire smoothly sealed, the spurs long ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; <> from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars; G, 7 shortly stalked; 8 anastomosing with the cell to one 

 third. 



37 05. Stilbina hypsenides. 



Stilbina hypcenides, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 290, pi. 3. f. 12 (1891) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 194. 



c? . Head yellowish white ; sides of palpi and frons red-brown ; 

 thorax ochreous suffused with red-brown ; legs red-brown, the 

 tarsi fuscous with white rings ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore 

 wing whitish suffused with pale ferruginous, the costal area suffused 

 with brown, the median nervure and base of veins arising from it 

 slightly streaked with white ; a dark mark at base of costa and 



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Fig. 22. — Stilbina hypcenides, $ . \. 



small subbasai black mark above inner margin ; a slight brown 

 streak in basal half of submedian fold defined by whitish below ; 

 antemedial line slight, black, angled outwards below costa and in 

 ceil, then obsolete ; orbicular a large elongate elliptical black- 

 brown patch ; reniform a black-brown patch truncate above and 

 rounded below, where it is broken up by the white on veins at 

 lower angle of cell ; postmedial line represented by two dark points 

 on costa, then by a whitish line strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, defined by diffused blackish below and slight dark marks 

 above, then obsolete, some slight white striae from costa beyond it ; 

 subterminal line very faint, brownish, excurved below vein 7 and 

 obsolete below vein 5 ; a terminal series of slight red-brown striae ; 

 cilia chequered dark brown and whitish. Hind wing yellowish 

 white, the terminal area suffused with pale red-brown ; the under- 

 side white tinged with reddish ochreous. 



$. Fore wing tinged with brown instead of ferruginous; the 



