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obliquely curved between those points; basal half of medial area 

 suffused with black, the outer half white, except at costa, met at 

 vein 6 by an oblique white band from costa before apex ; orbicular 

 a white point defined by black ; reniform with blackish centre and 

 whitish aunulus, constricted at middle ; a diffused blackish medial 

 shade; postmedial line double and oblique from costa to vein (j, 

 filled in with white and defined by white on outer side, then 

 represented by an obliquely curved series of black points on the veins 

 slightly angled inwards at submedian fold, a tringular black mark 

 beyond it on costa with two white points on it ; subterminal line 

 indistinctly double, incurved from costa to discal fold and with 

 minute black streak on its inner side at vein 6, angled inwards at 

 vein 5, then waved and ending at tornus ; a fine waved terminal 

 line with black points in the interspaces ; cilia red-brown. Hind 

 wing greyish suffused with fascous brown especially on the veins 

 and terminal area ; some blackish striae on vein 2 and on inner margin 

 towards tornus ; a diffused whitish medial band from lower angle 

 of cell to inner margin and diffused whitish subterminal line from 

 vein 5 to tornus ; a waved black terminal line ; cilia rufous with a 

 white line at base ; the underside whitish tinged with purple except 

 below the cell, a black discoidal spot, diffused, curved, slightly 

 waved medial line, double postmedial curved series of black points, 

 traces of subterminal line at costa, middle, and tornus, and waved 

 terminal line with black points at the interspaces. 



Hah. Br. N. Guinea, Dinawa {Pratt), type f d in Coll. Bethune- 

 Baker. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus THYRIODES. 



Type. 

 Thi/riocles, Gueii. Noct. iii. p. 384 (1852) flahellum. 



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

 vertex of head and fringed with hair in front and behinr] towards extremity, 

 the 3rd long and fringed with hair behind towards extremity ; frons smooth 

 with flattened tuft of long scales above ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male 

 bipectinate with ratlier long branches to apex; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; build slender ; fore 

 tibiiB fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments, and 

 with lateral series of tufts, the paired anal tufts short. Fore wing long and 

 narrow, the apex somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and 

 slightly crennlate ; 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 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from above angle; 6, 7 

 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Mid tibite of male with a fringe of scales covering a fold containing 

 * a fringe of scales ; antennae of female bipectinate with short branches. 



6298. Thyriodes flahellum. 



Thyriodesjlahelhom, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 365, pi, 23. f. 11 (1852); Druc3, Biol. 

 Centr.-Arn., Het. i. p. 408. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark red-brown mixed with purplish 

 grey ; antennae with the basal joiut white in front ; tarsi ringed 



