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KOCTUID.E. 



base ; fore femora black above ; tarsi fuscous brown. Fore wing 

 yellow tinged witb flesh-colour ; a small fuscous black triangular 

 spot on costii above end of cell connected witb a curved dee]) black 

 discoidal striga somewhat dilated above ; an oblique fuscous black 

 apical spot. Hind wing yellow faintly tinged with fiery red except 

 on costiil area ; a small fuscous patch at apex. 



$ . Fore wing very faintly striated with brown. 



JIah. Madras {Watson), 1 6 ; Cevlon, 1 g tvpe tetraspila. 

 Uxp. 32 millim. 



Genus GONODONTODES, nov. 



Type, G. dispar. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi xipturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long; frons smooth, with tnft of 

 liair above; eyes large, round ; antennie of male pectinate willi rather long 

 branches, the apex ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hair like scales and 

 without crests ; tibia; moderately fringed with hair, the fore tihiie not spined, 

 the hind tibias spined ; abdomen dorsally clothed with woolly hair at base but 

 witiiout crests. Fore wing short and broad, the apex not produced, the termen 

 not crenidato ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with the termen somewhat excurved at middle ; the cell about one-third length 

 of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 

 (■), 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen excised below apex and excurved at vein 5. 



7930. Gonodontodes chionosticta, n. sp. 



Head and thorax bright red-brown ; antennae with the basal joint 

 white on outer side ; palpi, pectus, and legs grey -brown ; abdomen 

 grey-brown dorsally tinged with red- brown. Fore 



wmg bright 



Fig. 41. — Gonodontodes chiouostida, cJ. \, 



glossy red-brown, irrorated with a few white scales ; a sinall silvery 

 white spot at base ; antcmedial line very indistinct, double, l)rown. 



