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A true Af/resa, close to the Indian species bracteata Butl., argen- 

 iifera Walk., and nivaha Moore. The upper limb of discal fork is 

 nearly absent, just traceable as a slight fold. 



Genus Idonauton Swinhoe. 

 1892 — Idonauton Hampson, Moths of India, I, 391. 



Type apicale Walker. 



I. straminea Schaus. (^Semyra straminea Sch.) 



This may be referred here provisionally. I have no male, hence 

 do not like to propose anew genus. The palpi agree with Idonauton ; 

 head sunken, front not tufted ; hind legs with terminal spurs only ; 

 venation agreeing with Hampson' s figure, vein 10 from end of cell, 

 but discal vein forked and closed by a cross vein. 



b. Discal vein short-forked, the limbs forming an angle of 90 or more. 



Genus Tali ma Walk. 



1855 — Talima Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. V, 1120. 



Type postica Walker. The type species is before me. Venation 

 of Parasa, except for the short forked discal vein, of which the two 

 limbs close the cell, widely divergent, looking like a single vein meet- 

 ing the end of cell. Vein 1 1 slightly curved at base. The palpi are 

 upturned nearly to vertex ; hind tibia? with end spurs only. A thinly 

 scaled, simply marked form, more generalized than the preceding. 



Genus Protalima, nov. 



Closely allied to Talima, but the palpi are short, not exceeding the frontal tuft, 

 and the inner margin of hind wings is rounded, less long drawn out than in Talima. 

 This would fall in Aliresa, except for the structure of the discal vein. The superfi- 

 cial appearance, however, is like Talima, and is here really the best guide to affinity 



Type sulla Schaus {Nyssia sulla Sch., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1892, 

 324)- 



B. Male antennae bipectinated to the tip ; fork and discal vein short and open. 



a. Palpi long, reaching near or above vertex. 



* Veins 2 and 3 of fore wings separate. 



Genus Vipsania Druce. 



1887 — Vipsania Druce, Biol. Cent.-Am. Lep. Het. I, 217. 



Palpi as in Hyphemia ; fore wings with veins 7-9 stalked ; fork of discal vein 

 short and open, but a peculiar deceptive fold lies from the middle of the vein to 

 origin of vein 6 ; hind wing like Hyphorma, but discal vein not forked ; veins 6 and 

 7 from a point. Hind legs broken ; but I learn from Sir G. F. Hampson that Druce' s 



