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LOPHOIDES. 

 Lophoides, Watson, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 84. Type iapis, de Nice. 



Antennae two-thirds as long as the costa ; club moderate, gradual; apiculus gradual- 

 Palpi suberect, third joint short, almost concealed. Fore wing pointed, dorsum subequal 

 in length to the termen ; vein 5 straight, practically intermediate between veins 4 and 6 ; 

 vein 2 from the basal third of the lower edge of the cell (further from the base of the 

 wing in the female) ; base of cell 3 subequal in length to that of cell 4 ; hyaline spot in 

 cell 4 reduced to a point or wanting. Hind wing with the termen evenly rounded, cell 

 about half as long as the wing ; vein 3 arising immediately before the end of the cell, 

 vein 2 just beyond the middle of the lower edge of the cell. 



In the male the dorsum of the fore wing has in its middle third a scanty fringe 

 of long hairs pointing obliquely downward and outward ; on the underside of the 

 fore wing the middle third of the dorsum bears a thick fringe of long hairs pointing 

 obliquely upward and outward ; on the upperside of the hind wing there is a patch of 

 long recumbent hairs attached to the basal portion of vein 8 ; and the fringe of the 

 hind wing next the tornus is much elongated. 



The first described species belonging to this genus was oiscura. Distant, a species for 

 which that author made the genus /sma ; but as his account of that genus is both 

 imperfect and inaccurate (he ascribes to the type a pyriform antennal club, which it 

 certainly does not possess), his name must sink in favour o^ Lophoides, Watson, of which 

 iapis, de Nicev., is the type, and of which the diagnosis does include a statement of the 

 differential characters of the type species. 



1 (8). With at least one cell-spot on the fore wing, that next the lower 



edge of the cell. 

 3 (7). Fore wing with the pale spot in cell 2 small, higher than wide (at 



least in the male). 

 3 (6). Hind wing below without any purplish suffusion on the basal half. 

 4(5). Hind wing with a sprinkling of yellowish-grey scales, sometimes by 



their absence in parts giving rise to the appearance of a very 



obscure dark spot next the transverse vein, and a postmedian series 



of four or five similar spots. Fore wing broader, termen subequal 



in length to the dorsum. Upper edge of lower lobe of clasp not 



serrate ; oedeagus-guards toothed on the edges iapis, de Nicev. 



5 (4). Hind wing below with a feeble brown spot next the transverse vein 



and a postmedian series of four similar spots, one each in cells 2, 



3, 4-5, and 6 respectively. These spots are of purplish-brown 



scales and not merely bare patches of the ground-colour of the 



wing. Fore wing longer and narrower, termen longer than the 



dorsum obscura. Distant, 



