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branches, tlie apical third simple, tlie basal joint with a large 

 tuft of hair; head and thorax clothed with hair overlying the 

 scales; the prothorax and metathorax with crests; tibise 

 fringed with hair; abdomen with large spreading dorsal crests 

 of hair on the first three segments. Fore wing with veins 3 

 and 5 from close to the angle of the cell; 6 from the upper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3-4 from angle of the 

 cell ; 5 from above angle ; 6-7 from angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near the base only. 





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Auchenisa Schausi\ sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax pale olive-green ; palpi blackish at 

 the sides ; antennae with the shaft whitish towards the base ; 

 the branches black, the tufts on the basal joint crimson ; 

 tegulaj tipped with crimson; patagia with black spots at 

 base ; prothorax with the crests black ; metathorax with 

 black spot ; tibise with some black hair ; tarsi blackish ; 

 abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with olive-brown and with 

 some fuscous in the dorsal crests and on the anal segment ; 

 there are two lateral series of small black spots. Fore wing 

 olive-green, irrorated vyith white ; some white at the base 

 and two black spots ; a subbasal black bar extends from the 

 subcostal nervure to the submedian fold. There is a broad 

 antemedial black band, irrorated with white, and with some 

 green below the cell and above the inner margin. The edges 

 of this band are irregularly defined by waved white lines, 

 the band expanding at the inner margin, and with a black 

 bar beyond the outer white line ; renit'orra green, irrorated 

 with white, and with the black annulus defined by white, 

 except above, upright oblong in shape, and with some diffused 



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