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vein 6 and excurved below vein 3, the area beyond it yellowish 

 below vein G, where it is joined by some yellowish from apex. 

 Hind wing yellow tinged with rufous ; a brown subterminal shade, 

 excurved at discal fold and ending at tornus ; the termen and cilia 

 rufous. Underside of both wings yellow suffused with rufous. 



Fig. 13. — Gonospileia munita, J. \ 



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Ab. 1. immuiiita. Fore wing with the markings almost obso- 

 lete, without the triangular chocolate-brown patch before the 

 antemedial line or the chocolate-brown before the postmedial line. 



Ab. 2. Similar but both wings grey-brown tinged with red- 

 brown. 



Ab. 3. Wings grey-brown without red-brown tinge ; fore wing 

 with the black markings present. 



Hab. Krjssi.v, Sarej^ta, Zeller, Fre}^ D'Emmich, Leech and 

 Crowley Colls. ; Armenia ; W. Turkestais", Transcaspia, Buchara, 

 Ferghana ; E. Turkestan, Hi. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Genus MEGISTOCLISMA, nov. 



Type, M. rihbei. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi with the 2iid joint obliquely upturned, 

 reacliing to above vertex of head and fringed with hair in front and beliind, 

 the 3rd porrect, long, slender, and somewhat dilated at extremity; frons 

 smooth, with slight tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 

 minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, and without 

 crests; fore tibije and 1st joint of tarsus of male fringed witii long hair, the 

 mid and hind tibifc smootlily scaled, the fore and hind tibia3 not spined ; 

 abdomen smoothly scaled and witliout crests, p'ore wing with the costa 

 highly arched towards apex which is rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 strongly erenulate; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above 

 angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Ilind wing with the termen highly erenulate ; the cell 

 about one-third length of wing; vein 3 from just before angle; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only ; 

 the costal area in male sparsely clotlied with very long fine hair on upperside. 



