406 NOCTUID-E. 



Genus DERMALEIPA. 



Beronaleipa, Saaltn. Lep. Madag. p. 460 (1891), non Type, 



descr parallelipifeda. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 middle of f'rons and moderately scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth with 

 small tuft of hair; eyes large, round; antennae of male minutely ciliated; 

 vertex of head tufted with hair; thorax clothed with hair only and without 

 crests; fore and mid tibias smoothly scaled, the hind tibite fringed on both 

 sides with long hair, the mid and hind tibiae spined ; abdomen dorsally 

 flattened and clothed with woolly hair but without crests, sometimes with 

 lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing of male sometimes with the costa arched 

 before middle and somewhat excised at middle, the apex produced and acute, 

 the termen evenly curved and slightly creuulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about one-third 

 length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only; male 

 typically with a fringe of very long hair on upperside from above middle of 

 inner margin, a fringe of long hair on inner margin except towards base, and 

 sometimes a fringe of short hair on underside on vein 1. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with the costa arched before middle and excised at 

 middle, the apex produced ; hind wing with tuft of long hair on upper- 

 side above middle of inner margin. 



7516. Dermaleipa juno. 



Kochm j'uno, Dalm. Anal. Eutom. p. 52 (1823); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 505; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 246. 

 Opliideres elegans. Van der Hoev. Tijd. Nat. Gesch. vii. p. 280, pi. 5. 



ff. 6 a, 6(1840). 

 Laffoptera multicolor, Gruen. Noet. iii. p. 226 (1852). 



Head and thorax red-brown, purplish brown, or grey-brown ; 

 palpi towards base, gulae, and pectus scarlet ; tibiae and tarsi 

 tuscous irrorated with grey, the hind tibiae fringed with scarlet 

 hair ; abdomen grey-brown, the sides, anal tuft, and ventral 

 surface scarlet, lateral white points on terminal segments. Fore 

 wing ochreous brown, purple-brown, or grey-brown with slight 

 dark irroration, the costal edge rufous, the inner margin with 

 chocolate-brown streak except towards base ; a reddish-brown 

 subbasal line slightly excurved below costa and ending at sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line red-brown, often slightly defined 

 on outer side by ochreous and usually slightly excurved below 

 costa, oblique; a black point in middle of cell; reniform defined 

 by brown and with a black point in lower part, often with a small 

 black spot in upper part and its lower part filled in with black ; 

 postmedial line red-brown, usually slightly defined on inner side 

 by orcheous, slightly excurved below costa, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line dark brown or olive-brown defined on outer side by 

 ochreous, incurved from apex to inner margin near tornus ; a 

 waved shade from the subterminal line at vein 6 to termen at 

 submedian fold. Hind wing black, the hair at base grey and 



