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the costa, especially towards the apex. Hind wing crossed by similar medial and postmedial 

 bands. Underside paler, both wings with a dark spot towards end of cell, and postmedial 

 and submarginal bauds only. 



Zanclognatha relata. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 5.) 



Expanse ^ inch, 



Female. Allied to Z. iiidica, from which it differs in having no medial band; in having a 

 subbasal band, which is straiglit and inwardly-oblique, as also are the antemedial and sub- 

 marginal bands ; the postmedial band not waved, but curved round the end of the cell, then 

 straight to inner margin. Hind wing with the medial band evenly curved. 



Bertula partita. (Plate CXLVIII. fig. 13.) 



Expanse jl inch. 



Male. Fore wing vinous bi'own ; a small black spot on the costa one fourth from base ; 

 another at middle of cell ; a lunule at end of it ; a paler band with diffused dark exterior 

 border three fourths from base, nearly straight from costa to first median nervule, then 

 convex to inner margin ; the area beyond it suffused with purple ; an obscure waved sub- 

 marginal band, most distinct near eosta; the area beyond it vinous brown, but rather darker 

 than the basal area ; a series of antecilial specks. Hind wing smoky brown ; two somewhat 

 irregular pale bauds, with the area between them slightly darker, from the inner margin near 

 anal angle not reaching the costa ; an antecilial Hue. Underside brown : fore wing with 

 the submarginal band distinct near the costa, otherwise obsolete : hind wing with the two 

 bands dark and reaching the costa near the middle ; a spot at end of cell. 



BRACHARTHEON, gen. nov. 



Allied to Bertula and Cidariplura, from -which it differs in having the first joint of the 

 palpi very short, the second and third joints in the male, are as long and as heavily clothed 

 with long hairs; but the third joint is not nearly so thick. Antennae biserrated. Wings as 

 in Bertula and Cidariplura. Patagia in male clothed with long hairs, which extend back to 

 the second segment of abdomen. Female with simple antennae ; terminal joint of palpi 

 reduced to a spike of medium length without scales or hairs ; the patagia normal. 



Bracharthron maculapex. (Plate CXLVIII. figs. 4, 11.) 



Expanse \\ inch. 



Male. Terminal joint of palpi and patagia clothed with long fulvous hairs. Fore wing : 

 base and costa pale ochreous with dark speckles; disc, inner and outer margins browner with 



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