STEGANIOBES. 200 



rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins .". and 5 from near 

 angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7,8,9,10 stalked; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell less than half the length of wing; reins 3, 4 

 angle; 5 nearly fully developed from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



540G. Steganiodes mesophsea, n. sp. 



cJ. Head fuscous brown slightly mixed with yellow, the palpi 

 whitish in front; thorax and abdomen yellow mixed with deep 

 rufous; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen yellowish 

 white; fore legs fuscous brown in front, the tufts of hair behind 

 i fulvous. Fore wing yellow irrorated with fiery red, the costal 

 and medial areas deep purplish chooolate-brown ; a subbasal brown 

 line from the dark area to inner margin ; antemedial line dark 

 brown, obliquely curved, forming the inner edge of the chocolate 

 medial area which is slightly irrorated with blackish; a yellow 

 discoidal lunule ; postmedial line brown, defining the chocolate area, 

 incurved from costa to vein 4 where it is acutely angled outwards, 

 then again incurved and angled outwards on vein 1; subterminal 



Fig. 77. — Steganiodes mesophesa, rf . \. 



lino double, red-brown, minutely waved to vein 3 where [j is 

 angled outwards to termen, then slightly dentate and ending 

 at tornus ; an oblique chocolate bar beyond it between veins 

 4,5; a chocolate-brown terminal line; cilia yellow mixed with 

 rufous. Hind wing yellow irrorated with fiery red: an oblique 

 elliptical discoidal spot defined by rufous ; postmedial line rufous, 

 oblique to vein 4 where it is acutely angled outwards, an 

 inwards at vein 2 and outwards to inner margin ; subterminal Line 

 double, rufous, oblique to discal fold, then dentate, the veins beyond 

 it with rufous streaks ; a rufous terminal line ; eilia yellow mixi d 

 with rufous ; the underside yellowish white with slight dark 

 mark below middle of costa and traces of a subterminal line. 

 llab, S. Niuekia, Sapele (Sampson), 1 3 type. Exp, 2 1 millim. 



Genus PSEUDACIDALIA. „ 



1 ype. 



Pseudacidaliu, ITmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 351 (180-1) albicosta. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, Blender, the '2nd joint 

 reaching to above vertex of head, the 3rd long; frons smo< th; eyes 

 round; antennae of male laminate; thorax clothed almost entirelj with scales 

 and without crests: tibi:r smoothly Bcaled, the spurs long; abdomen without 



