EURYTELIDiE. 

 AMECHANIA. Hewitson. 



Body rather large, quadrate, abdomen small and slender. Eyes small, smooth. 

 Palpi long, densely clothed with scales throughout pressed closely to the head, where 

 they are clothed with long white hair. Antennae of moderate length, slender, very 

 slightly thickened towards the point, the articulations distinctly .seen. 



Anterior wing large ; the costal margin arched, apex rounded, outer margin 

 sinuated at the middle ; costal nervure reaching to beyond the middle of the wing ; 

 subcostal nervure with four branches, the first and second near together before the 

 end of the discoidal cell, the third and fourth at a distance from the other two, equi- 

 distant from each other and the apex ; discoidal cell short ; upper disco-cellular 

 nervure very short, inclining outwards ; middle disco-cellular also short, somewhat 

 longer than the last, forming an obtuse angle with it ; lower disco-cellular long, 

 curved inwardly, four times the length of the other two together, united to the third 

 branch of the median nervure at a distance from its base. 



Posterior wing oblong circular ; precostal nervure curved inwardly, costal 

 nervure joining the costal margin at half its length ; postcostal with its first branch 

 arising at less than a third of the length of the wing ; the discoidal cell short and 

 broad, the upper disco-cellular nervure arising a little below the first branch from the 

 subcostal nervure, short, inclining outwards : the second three times its length, curved, 

 joining the third median nervule a very little beyond its base. 



Fore-legs short, robust, tibiae and tarsi equally thick, clothed with bristles. 

 Hind-legs long and slender ; the tibiae and tarsi slightly spined. 



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