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■vein 12 finishing at or beyond cell-end, 8 before wing-apex, and 7 well on external 

 margin in a line with upper border of cell ; 6 just below cell-apex, leaving a minute 

 upper discocellular ; 5 (much bent down at its origin) arises three times as far from 

 6 as from 4, thus leaving a long middle discocellular generally subparallel with external 

 margin of wing and flexed a little inwards posteriorly ; 2 a little nearer to base than 

 to 3, which is four times as far from 2 as from 4. 



Hind-wing: in the male subcircular, its greatest width about equal to the external 

 margin of the fore-wing; in the female subpyriform. The costa is more arched in the 

 male ; external margin rounded in both sexes and the internal margin almost straight. 

 The cell about half of the wing-length ; discocellulars strongly oblique inwards 

 costally ; vein 8 finishing two-thirds along costa ; 7 and 6 arising at upper end of cell ; 

 5 hardly developed, at its origin very slightly nearer 6 than 4 ; 3 arising a little before 

 the end of the cell and twice as far from 4 as it is from 2 ; the distance between 4 and 

 the base is more than twice the distance between 4 and 3. 



Hind tibiae with a pair of spurs. 



In the male a hardly distinguishable sex-patch of scales covers the area of veins 2, 

 3, and 4 of the hind-wing. The extent and position of this patch are best seen in 

 specimens which have been almost cleared of their scaling by Eau de Javelle. 



Type, CMoneigia leggei mihi. 



The genus is nearest to Ploetzia and Kedestes. 



It has no fore-wing sex-streak in the male as in the former genus and has a much 

 more minute third joint to the palpus than in the latter genus. 



Chioneigia leggei, sp. n. (Plate V. figs. 15, 16, d" ; 17, 18, ? .) 



Expanse : 6 38 mm., ? 41 mm. 



6 . — Uppeeside. Fore-wing seal-brown ; at the end of the cell two amber spots 

 placed closely one above the other ; below these, and almost in a line with them, in 

 space 2 an elongate oblong amber spot, reaching vein 2 ; a minute spot at the basal angle 

 of space 3 ; midway between the end of the cell and the apex a short band, composed ot 

 three oblong translucent spots, in spaces 6, 7, and 8, that in 6 being the largest, while 

 the one in 8 is a little longer than the one in 7 ; about halfway between the base and 

 the external margin, and just above veinl, there is a small spot (sometimes evanescent) 

 of clay-colour or ochre-yellow; cilia light brown. Hind-wing uniform seal-brown; 

 cilia pale ochre. 



Underside. Fore-wing : the spots of the upperside appear on a ground varying from 

 seal-brown with ochreous scales at the costa to a full sepia at vein 1, between which and 

 the internal margin the scales are lustrous yellow-grey. The ground-colour is invaded 

 along the external margin from the apex to vein 2 by violaceous brown, which leaves 

 minute internervular triangular patches of ground-colour along the margin. Hind- 

 wing W^ht violaceous brown, the costal margin with abroad border of rich brown-pink ; 



