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SIR G. F. HAMPSOIS' KEVISIOiS" OJ? MOTUS [Feb. 21, 



before augle of cell ; 5 from above angle and almost obsolete ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8 almost to apex. 



Type. *MiMASAETA NivEiFASCiALis Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1894, 

 p. 164, & Mon. Phyc. ii. pi. xxiv. f. 6. Marghilan, C. Asia. 



Genus 157. Mbtapeotus, nov. 



Palpi porrect and short, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair, 

 the 3rd naked ; maxillary palpi minute and tiliform ; proboscis 

 minute ; Irons with a pointed corneous prominence ; antennae of 

 female minutely ciliated ; tibiae moderately hairy, the spurs 

 moderate. Fore wing with the costa shghtly excised beyond 

 middle ; the apex soi'.iewhat produced and acute, and the outer 

 margin somewhat excised below apex ; veins '6, 4, 6 well separated 

 at origin ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 from cell near 

 upper angle. Hiud \MDg with veui 3 from before angle of cell ; 

 5 from above the angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



Fig. 157. 



Metaprotus asuridia, 5 • !• 



Type. (l)tMETAPEOTUS asxjridia Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 430, 

 pi. X. f. 5 ( $ ). Queensland. 



(2)*Metapeotus magjjifica Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1887, p. 200, 



Australia. 



Genus 158. Sim^thistis. 



Simcethistis Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 446 (1896). 

 Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint fringed with long hair below, the 

 3rd prominent ; maxillary palpi minute ; frons with a rounded 



Fig. 158. 



Simcethistis tricolor, ^ . \. (From Moths Ind. toI. iv.) 



prominence ; antennae annulate. Fore Mdng with veins 3, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 fi-om well above angle ; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 at regular 



