1898.] 



OF THE SUBFAMILY PYEATJSTIIf^. 



615 



from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 

 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Type. tEnPis maculaeis Wlk. xxvii. 133. Borneo. 



Genus 14. Massepha. 



MassepJia Wlk. xdi. 488 (1859). 



Palpi upturned, the 2n(i joint moderately fringed \vith scales in 

 front and not reaching vertex of head, the 3rd well developed and 

 acuminate ; maxillary palpi minute ; frons rounded ; antennae of 

 male annulated; tibite with the outer spurs two-thirds length of 

 inner. Fore wing with the apex acute and somewhat produced ; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 well separated from 8, 9, to 

 which 10 is approximated. Hind wing with the cell short ; _ veins 

 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



rig. 14. 



Massepha absolutal 



(From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



Sect. I. Hind wing with the outer margin excised below apex, 

 and three times between vein 5 and anal angle. 



(1) Massepha phces^icobapta, n. sp. (Plate XLIX. fig. 3.) 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white mixed with ferruginous 

 red and brown. Fore wing white ; the basal area marked with 

 red and brown, except towards costa on which there is a black 

 basal speck followed by a reddish spot ; two blackish marks near 

 base of inner margin ; an indistinct curved white antemedial line 

 dehned towards costa by two black specks on its outer edge ; the 

 postmedial area with a triangular red patch from below costa, its 

 apex on vein. 1, followed by a large brownish patch with dentate 

 outer edge, its base or inner margin extending from middle to near 

 outer angle, traversed by a sinuous white postmedial line defined 

 by black and excurved at middle, and with some red on its outer 

 side on inner margin ; the discocellulars and extremity of median 

 nervure white ; a waved black submarginal line with brownish 

 marks beyond it and a black mark at middle. Hind wing with 

 the basal half white mottled with red and brown, bounded by a 

 sinuous white medial line defined by red on inner side, and with 

 a broad diffused area of red shading into brown beyond it ; a sub- 

 marginal red-brown black-defi.ned band running out to the margin 

 at vein 5, then following the margin, and with an apical leaden-grey 

 patch beyond it. 



Hab. Pergusson IsL, N. Gruinea. Eup. 36 mm. Type in Coll. 

 Kothschild. 



