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nearly as long as the sub-median. Frenulum present ; tibiae 

 spurred. Abdomen often tufted at the extremity. 



A Family of moderate extent, well represented in Africa, and 

 in the Indo- and Austro-Malayan Regions generally, as well as 

 in Australia. They are also represented by several genera in 

 North America, but very few have been described from the 

 tropical parts of the New World. Many of the species fly by 

 day. 



GENUS HESPAGARISTA. 



Hespagarista^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. i. p. 13 



(1854). 



This is a small genus of South African Moths with short 

 antennae, thickened before the tips, and in the male, slightly 

 pectinated. The fore-wings are rather long and narrow, sub- 

 trigonate, and much longer than the rounded hind-wings. The 

 accessory cell is large, and the lowest discoidal and upper 

 median nervule are parallel, and close together. The legs 

 are tufted, but the most remarkable character is the very large 

 anal tuft, which is half as long as the whole of the abdomen, in 

 the male. 



HESPAGARISTA ECHIONE. 



(Plate LXXV. Fig 2.) 



Agarista echione, Boisduval, in Delegorgue, Voy. Afr. Austr. ii. 

 p. 595,110. 115 (1847). 



Angas, Kaffirs Illustrated, pi. 30, fig. 10 (1849). 



Hespagarista interlecta^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 



i. p. 14 (1854). 



Amazela echione, Boisduval, Rev. Zool. (3) ii. p. 67 (1874). 

 Hespagarista interjecta, Westwood, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 



Zool. (2)i. p. 203 (1877). 



Eusemia novem-maculata, Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, (6) 

 x. p. 54 (1890) ; id. & Vuillot, Nov. Lepid. p. 56, pi. 9, 

 fig. 1(1892). 



