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vein 6 and excurved below vein 3, the area beyond it yellowish 

 below vem 6, where it is joined by some yellowish from apex 

 Hmd wmg yellow tinged with rufous ; a brown subterminal shade 

 excurved at discal fold and ending at torims ; the termen and cilia 

 rufous. Underside of both wings yellow suftised with rufous. 



Fig. 13. — Gonospileia munita, (J. \. 



Ab. 1. immimita. Fore wing with the markings ahuost obso- 

 lete, without the triangular chocolate-brown patch before the 

 antemedial line or the chocolate-brown before the postmedial line. 



Ab. 2. Similar but both wings grey-brown tinged with red- 

 bi'own. 



Ab. 3. Wings grey-brown without red-brown tinge ; fore wing 

 with the black markings present. 



Hah. Russia, Sarepta, Zeller, Frey, D'Emmich, Leech and 

 Crowley Colls. ; Armenia ; W. Turkestan, Transcaspia, Buchara, 

 Ferghana; E. Turkestan, Hi. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Genus MEGISTOCLISMA, nov. 



Type, M. ribbei. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2iid joint obliquely upturned, 

 reaching to above vertex of head and fringed with hair in front and behind, 

 the 3rd porrect, long, slender, and somewhat dilated at extremity; frons 

 smooth, with slight tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennse of male 

 minutely ciliated; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, and without 

 crests; fore tibite and 1st joint of tarsus of male fringed with long hair, the 

 mid and hind tibite smoothly scaled, the fore and hind tibice not spined; 

 abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the costa 

 highly arched towards apex which is rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 strongly crenulate; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from just above 

 angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen highly crenulate ; the cell 

 about one-third length of wing; vein 3 from just before angle; 4, 5 from 

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

 the costal area in male sparsely clothed with very long fine hair on upperside. 



