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SIR G. F. HAMPSOK REVISION OF MOTHS [Teb. 21, 



maxillary palpi filiforin ; frons with a rounded prominence; 

 antennae of fern ale almost simple; legs long and slender. Fore 

 wing with the costa arched towards apex, which is produced and 

 acute ; the outer margin excised below apex, then excurved ; veins 

 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 

 9, to which 10 is closely approximated. Hind wing with the cell 

 half the length of wing ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 approximated for 

 some distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Kg. 112. 



Mr 



Eheciosomia argentipjinctalis, cJ . }. 



Type. (1)*Ehectosomia multifakialis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, 

 p. 414, pi. 15. f. 7. Mexico ; Costa Eica ; Venezuela. 



(2)*Ehectosomia aegentipunctalis Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Het. ii. p. 264, pi. 62. ff. 28, 29. Mexico ; Guatemala. 



Genus 113. Loxonepteba. 



Loxoneptera Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 405 (1896). 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform; frons produced to a flattened plate with 

 rounded edge ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; tibiae with the 

 outer spurs minute ; mid tibite of male dilated with a fold 

 containing a tuft of long hair ; abdomen of male with very large 



Loxoneptera carnealis, c? . 



(From Moths Ind. toI. iv.) 



paired lateral tufts from just beyond middle. Fore wing of male 

 with fringe of long hair on base of inner margin, which is excised 

 towards outer angle and bears a curved tuft of hair ; vein 3 before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 

 9, to which 10 also is approximated. Hind wing of male with 



