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and thickly scaled ; frons oblique below and produced to a transverse 

 corneous ridge at middle ; eyes large, round ; antennae of female almost 

 simple ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax without 

 crest, the metathorax with depressed crest ; tibias moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments. Forewing with the 

 apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 

 from near angle of cell; 6 from below upper angle; 7 from angle ; 8'9 - 10 

 stalked; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3-4 from angle of cell; 5 

 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6-7 shortly stalked; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 

 2110. Xantholepis dicycla. 



Genus Borbotana. 



Type. 



Borbotana, Wlk., xv. 1651 (1858) . . . . nivifascia. 



CAoluata, Wlk., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool., vii., p. 57 (1864). . nivifascia. 

 '<■ Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately 

 scaled and reaching about to vertex of head, the 3rd moderate ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennae with large tuft of scales from basal 

 joint, in male typically serrate and with long fasciculate cilia ; thorax 

 clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests ; tibiae thickly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal 

 segments. Forewing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly 

 curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper 

 angle; 7 from angle; S^'IO stalked, or 10 from cell in male; 11 from cell; 

 forewing of male typically with vein 7 down-curved at base and with groove 

 of ribbed membrane above it. Hindwing with veins 3"4 from angle 

 of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6*7 from upper angle ; 



8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



1756 6. Borbotana nivifascia. 



Genus Poscilogramma. 



Type. 



Pcecilofframma, Butl., P. Z. S. 1892, p. 126 . . . . picata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 to vertex of head and rather broadly fringed with scales, the 3rd moderate 

 frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennae of male with long cilia ; thorax 

 clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests formed of long spatulate scales; mid tibiae fringed with very long 

 hair on outerside, the hind tibiae moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen 

 with dorsal crest at base only. Forewing rather narrow and elongate, 

 the apex rather produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and not 

 crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 



9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind- 

 wing with veins 3*4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below middle 



