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3 and 4 on a short stalk ; 5 absent ; 6, 7, and 10 from the areole, 

 6 and 7 being curved; 11 anastomosing with 12: male, the cell 

 extremely narrow so as to distort the neuration; 11 not anasto- 

 mosing with 12. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked ; 5 absent ; 

 6 and 7 from upper angle of cell ; 8 from middle of cell. 



1329. Thysanoptyx tetragona, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 510 ; Butl. III. Het. 



v, pi. 86, tig. 14; C. $ S. no. 612. 

 Teulisna tenuisigna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 24, pi. 2, fig. 13 ; 



C. $ S. no. 611. 

 Teulisna sordida, Butl. III. Het. v, p. 39, pi. 86, fig. 15 ; C. 8? S. 



no. 610. 

 Teulisna oblonga, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 355. 



c? . Frons black ; head and collar white ; thorax and extremities 

 of tegulae black ; abdomen pale fuscous, the extremity ochreous. 



.Fore wing white, with a large quadrate 

 black patch below the end of the cell ; 

 a postmedial black spot on the costa ; 

 the apical portion of costa and cilia 

 black. Hind wing pale ochreous. 



$ with the fore wing suffused with 

 ochreous ; the black patch extending 

 Fig. 42. into the cell ; the postmedial spot 



Thysanoptyx tetragonal . \. l ar g er> 



In the form oblonga from Borneo 



the quadrate patch is smaller and the hind wing white ; sordida 

 has a black spot near the base of fore wing, the outer area of hind 

 wing suffused with fuscous. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Silhet; Nagas; Nilgiris; Borneo. Exp., <3 30-34, 

 $ 36-38 millim. 



Genus PTYOPTEROTA, nov. 



Type, P. obscura, Hmpsn. 



lianye. Burma. 



<S . Palpi upturned, the second joint reaching vertex of head, 

 the third short ; antennaa minutely ciliated ; claspers of male 

 large ; spurs on tibiae long. Fore wing with the apex nearly rect- 

 angular ; vein 2 much curved at base ; 3 from before end of cell ; 



4 and 5 from angle ; 8 and 9 anastomosing to form the areole ; a 

 large tuft of long scales from subcostal nervure on underside from 

 base to near end of cell. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 absent ; 6 and 7 on a short stalk. 



1330. Ptyopterota obscura, n. sp. 



c? . Fore wing with a dark speck at base and spot above inner 

 margin before the middle ; obscure antemedial, medial, and post- 

 medial sinuous lines, the medial extending from costa to below 

 cell ; a black speck at end of cell ; an ill-defined submarginal 



