MICEOHYLE. — XA2T THETIS. 727 



from before angle, 9 absent ; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of 

 cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



In key differs from Pa id in in the fore wing having vein 10 stalked with 

 7, 8 ; hind wing with veins 3, 4 coincident. 



*880 a. Microhyle fadella. 



Hylemera fadella, Mab. Le Nat. ii. p. 100 (1882); Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 427. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous, the branches of antennas black ; 

 abdomen orange. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with orange; 

 the basal and terminal areas irrorated and suffused with dark brown 

 leaving a pale broad medial band; the terminal area much more 

 thickly suffused, its inner edges slightly angled outwards at lower 



Kg. 240.— Microhyle fadella, g. \. 



angle of cell. Hind wing bright orange, the cilia dark brown. 

 Underside of fore wing orange, the apical area dark brown from 

 costa beyond middle to torn us. 



Hah. Madagascar, type f 6 in Coll. Mabille. Exp. 

 IS millim. 



*881 a. Xanthetis obiensis. (Plate XXXVIII. fig. 5.) 

 Xanthetis luzonica, obiensis, Eoths. Nov. Zool, xx. p. 203 (1913). 



6 . Head orange, the palpi and antennae black; tegulae orange 

 tipped with black; thorax black with orange patch on metathontx ; 

 pectus and legs black-brown, the hind tibiae yellow towards base ; 

 abdomen black, the ventral surface yellow. Fore wing orange; the 

 costa black except at base, expanding widely towards apex ; a black 

 subbasal line ; antemedial line black, oblique ; connected by a 

 streak on inner margin with the subbasal line; a black spot in 

 middle of cell connected with the antemedial line and a discoidal 

 spot, the two connected by a wedge-shaped patch on and below 

 median nervure ; a black postmedial band, exeurved to vein -i, then 

 oblique, connected with the discoidal spot, the wedge-shaped patch, 

 and by a patch on inner area with the antemedial line ; a black 

 terminal band only separated from the postmedial band by a curved 

 orange line from below costa to vein 1. Hind wing with the basal 



