14 Mi. W. Scliaus on 



Thursania, gen. nov. 



Male. — Antennae pubescent, ciliate ; a raised tuft on upper 

 side of shaft just beyond middle. Palpi upcuvved, the third 

 joint shorter than second, moderately scaled. Fore tarsi 

 with tuft at base. Fore wings : vein 2 from just beyond 

 middle of cell; 8 from before lower angle; 4 and 5 from 

 lower angle; 6 from below upper angle; -7 from upper 

 angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked from close to end of cell. Hind 

 wings : veins 3 and 4 and 6 and 7 on short stalk; 5 from 

 near lower angle. 



Type of genus, Thursania decocta, sp. n. 



Thursania decoct a, sp. n. 



^ . Bodvand wings dull grey; abdomen darker^ with pale 

 seo-mental lines. Wings faintly irrorated with whitish butf, 

 markings fuscous; a fine medial shade; postmedial line fine, 

 deeply and narrowly lunular ; an interrupted terminal line, 

 thickened between veins ; a pale line at base of cilia and pale 

 tipped. Fore wings: a fine antemedial lineoutbent on costa, 

 vertical across cell, slightly outcurved below it ; orbicular a 

 small point; reniform a Hue line; subtermiiial fine, whitish 

 butf, preceded by a fuscous spot between veins 7 and 6, and 

 inwardly edged with fuscous from vein 6 to inner margin. 

 Hind wings: a fuscous discal spot; subterminal line edged 

 on either side with fuscous, more heavily marked inwardly. 

 Underneath paler, the markings similar, but no antemedial 

 line on fore wing. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Rah. Sixola. 



Near R. cacalis, Schs. 



Thursania sennit's, sp. n. 



$ . Head greyish brown. Collar and patagia roseate 

 brown. Thorax and abdomen darker, abdomen below whitish 

 irrorated with giey. Fore wings pale roseate brown ; costa 

 shaded with fuscous; a small velvety brown-black spot near 

 base of cell ; antemedial line fine, fuscous, outbent, outangled 

 on inner margin, closely followed in cell by a round velvety 

 spot, and a similar larger spot below cell, both finely circled 

 with whitish ; a larger velvety spot at end of cell, its edges 

 outcurved, anpl broadest across its middle ; postmedial line 

 fine, dentate, fuscous, rather indistinct, followed by a broad 

 greyish-white shade ; terminal space somewhat ochreous, 



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