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ME. et. r. HAMPSON ON THE CLASSIFICATION [DeC. 17, 



Genus Baphipteea, nov. 



Palpi extending about three times length of head and thickly 

 clothed with hair; maxillary palpi triangularly sealed; proboscis 

 well developed ; frons flat ; antennae of female nearly simple. 

 Fore wing with the apex extremely produced and acute ; vein 4 

 absent ; 7 absent ; 8, 9 stalked ; 11 absent. Hind wing with veins 

 4 and 6 absent ; the cell completely open. 



Fig. 44. 



Raphipiera minimella, ? . J- 

 Type. Eaphiptera mtnimblla, Eob. Ann. N. T. Lye. ii. 315. 



Genus Mesolia. 



U.S.A. 



Mesolia, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 282. 



Palpi porrect, thickly clothed with hair and extending about 

 twice the length of head ; maxillary palpi triangalarly scaled ; 

 frons with a conical projection ; tibiae with the outer spurs about 

 half the length of inner. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex 

 rounded ; the outer margin produced from apex to vein 5 ; vein 7 

 when present stalked with 8, 9 ; 10, 11 when present free. 

 Hind wing with vein 4 usually absent ; 6 from upper angle ; the 

 upper margin of cell widely separated from 8, 7 curving upwards 

 to anastomose with 8. 



Fig. 45. 





Mesolia pandavella, (J. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with veins 7 and 11 present. 



A. Both wings with vein 4 absent. 



a. Antennae of male thickened and flattened. 



Tyjje. (1) Mesolia pandavella, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1888, p. 282. 



N.W.Himalayas; Punjab; S.India; Ceylon. 



b. Antennae of male serrate. 

 (2)tMESOLiAPLX7EiMELLA, Wlk. xxvii. 162. 



Jamaica ; 

 San Domingo. 



