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upper angle to inner margin ; some slight rufous marks on post- 

 medial part of costa ; traces of a whitish subterminal line with 

 brown suffusion before and beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black striae. Hind 

 wing grejdsh thickly irrorated with red-brown ; a black discoidal 

 point, minutely waved postmedial black line and terminal series of 

 black points ; the underside greyish suffused with fuscous brown. 



Bah. Sierra Leone (Yemenis), 1 5 ; Cetlon, Peradeniya ( &V«en), 

 10 (S type, Puttalam (Po?e), 1 6, Nawalapitiya (l/ac/i;it;oocZ), 1 S , 

 Hambantota {Pole), 1 c5' ; Pulo Laut {DoherUj), 1 cJ , 2 5 . Exj}. 

 8-12 millim. 



5020. Araeoptera canescens. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 23.) 



hoj)teryx canescens, Wlk. xxxiv. 1318 (1865). 

 Isoptei-yx favillalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1319 (1865). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly tinged with brown ; 

 palpi and frous more or less suffused with red-brown and black ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing 

 white faintly tinged and irrorated with brown ; antomedial line 

 represented by a black point in cell and oblique line from cell to 

 inner margin ; a black point at upper angle of cell with oblique 

 brownish line from it to inner margin ; the postmedial part of costa 

 with white points with slight brown streaks between them ; post - 

 medial line slight, brown, oblique, from below costa to inner margin ; 

 the terminal area slightly more irrorated with brown ; subterminal 

 line white, oblique, slightly angled outwards at middle ; a terminal 

 series of minute black points. Hind wing white slightly tinged 

 and irrorated with brown ; a slight blackish subbasal line ; a double 

 black medial line ; traces of a sinuous whitish subterminal line 

 defined on each side by black irroration ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a black dis- 

 coidal striga and indistinct postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore and hind wings with the postmedial area tinged 

 with rufous. 



Hah. Sierra Leone {Clements), 3 5 ; S. Nigeria, Lagos {Boag), 

 1 $ ; PuLO Laut {DoJierty), 1 J , 1 § ; Queensland, Brisbane 

 ( Turner), 1 $ , Moreton Bay {Diggles), 1 d , 1 $ , type and type 

 favillalis. Exp. 10 millim. 



Genus TEISSERNIS. 



Type. 



Trissernis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902 (Apr.), p. 37 prasinoscia. 



Bryomima, Turner, Proc Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvii. p. 134 



(Aug. 1902); nee Stand. Lep. 1899 prasinoscia. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reacliing vertex of 

 liead and slenderly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frons sinootb ; eyes large, 

 round ; antenna of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales and without crests ; tibias smoothly scaled, the spurs long ; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 



