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AMESIA SANGUIFLUA. 

 PLATE III. Fig. 3. 



Phalsena sanguiflua, Drury, Exot. Ent., vol. ii. pi. 20, figs. 1 , 2. 



"We have been induced to re-figure this very singu- 

 lar moth from a specimen in the collection of the 

 Rev. F. TV. Hope, not only because Drury 's figures 

 are very inaccurate, especially in the form of the 

 wings and arrangement of the nervures, but because 

 they are incomplete, wanting the head and antennae, 

 so that it is impossible to obtain an idea of the re- 

 lations of the insect. This is still, however, a matter 

 of difficult determination, although a certain rela- 

 tionship between it and the two species last de- 

 scribed cannot be questioned. But the present 

 species differs from these in its considerably larger 

 size, the singular arched form of the fore wings, and 

 the arrangement of the wing- veins, which, it will be 

 seen, are curiously curved at the apical part of the 

 fore wings, instead of running straight to the tips. 

 In this respect the insect is more nearly related to 

 Campylotes, but it differs from this, and all the 

 allied genera, except Eterusia, in not possessing the 

 single simple vein which runs from the extremity of 



