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GEOMETRID^E. 



b. Palpi stout, oblique, and reaching just 

 beyond a sharp frontal tuft ; hind 

 wing with vein 5 stalked with 6 ; 



the frenulum fully developed 2. SARCINODES, p. 315. 



]J. Antennae not uniseriate ; apex of each 

 wing much produced. 



a. Palpi slender and reaching far beyond 



the frons; antennae of Jbipectinated. 3. LOXORHOMBIA, p. 316. 



b. Palpi not extending beyond the frons ; 



antennae of J almost simple. 

 a'. Fore wing with vein 10 given off 



from 11, and anastomosing with 



8, 9 to form an areole 4. PAL^OMYSTIS, p. 317. 



b'. Fore wing with vein 10 free; 11 



anastomosing with 12 5. DORATOPTERA, p. 318. 



Genus ABRAXAPHANTES. 



Abraxaphantes, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 374 (1894). 



Type, A. perampla, Swinh. 



Range. Burma. 



Palpi reaching far beyond the frons, and fringed with hair on 

 both sides ; antennae pectinated, with short uniseriate branches in 

 both sexes ; abdomen long and deep ; male with the claspers very 

 large ; the frenulum reduced to a slender hair and non-functional, 

 the retinaculum being absent ; wings long and narrow. Fore wing 

 with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from before 

 upper angle; 10 and 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell, 7 from before upper angle. 



3559. Abraxaphantes perampla, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 211. 



White ; palpi and frons fiery orange ; head and thorax spotted 

 with black. Fore wing with numerous black spots on the basal and 



Fig. 149. Abraxaphantes perampla, $ . }. 



costal areas and in the cell ; a large spot at end of cell, with a 

 broad oblique band from below it forking towards inner margin ; 

 both wings with submarginal, marginal, and cilial series of spots, 



