SI \ I ROP] DES. 



2G9 



Genus STAUROPIDES. nov. 



Type, 8. superba. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, moderately scaled and extending to 

 just beyond tbe t'rons, which has a large truncate conical prominence with raised 

 edges and a corneous plate below it, the vertex of head with Blight ridge; 

 eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipectinate with moderate branches to 

 beyond middle, the apical part, simple; thorax clothed almost entirely with 

 scales and with slight double ridge-like crest; tibiie fringed with long hair 

 and scales; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins .3 and 

 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 

 8 to form a small areole ; 11 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 the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna of female bipectinate with short branches to beyond middle, 

 the apical part simple. 



3881. Sfcauropides superba. 



Antachara superba, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 361 (1894), J. 



Head and thorax pale blue-green ; palpi ochreous tinged with 

 rufous ; frons with lateral red-brown bars ; pectus and legs ochreous 

 tinged with rufous, the tibiae pale green on outer side, the tarsi 

 dark brown ringed with white: abdomen pale greenish tinged with 

 rufous in parts. Fore wing pale blue-green ; a very oblique sinuous 

 black streak from base of costa to subcostal nervure ; antemedial 

 line represented by a dark point on costa ; orbicular with faint 

 white annulus defined by black on outer side, a black and white bar 

 below it from cell to submedian fold, a rufous band beyond them 



Fig. 71. — Stauropides superba, £, 



from costa to submedian fold with waved inner edge towards costa 

 and below vein 5 confluent with the rufous terminal area ; reniform 

 greyish defined by black, narrow, very oblique and produced at 

 lower extremity, obsolescent above ; postmedial line almost obsolete 

 towards costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then sinuous, 

 incurved at discal fold, very oblique below vein 4, angled inwards 

 in submedian fold and connected by a black streak with the medial 

 bar, then obsolete ; subterminal line indistinct, waved, oblique from 

 vein 4 to below 2 and with green patch beyond it, then erect ; a 

 series of black striae just before termen ; cilia brown with a pale 

 line at base. Hind wing white, the apical area and termen tinged 



