H^.MAPHLEBIA. 203 



Genus H^MAPHLEBIA, nov. 



Tj']3e, H. atripalpis. 



Proboscis lully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to well beyond frons, the 

 2Hrl joint moderately Iringed witL scales in fronl, the 3rd short; frons 

 smooth; eyes large, round ; antennte of male ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales and withont crests ; tibia; smoothly scaled ; abdomen 

 without o-ests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 

 and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 4, 6 i'roni angle ; 6 

 from upper angle; 7, 8, \), 10 stalked; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 elalked; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle of dis- 

 cocelliilars ; (3,7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



5314. Hsemaphlebia atripalpis, n. sp. 



(5" . Head and thorax white faintly tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with black ; palpi black, pectus and legs brown ; abdomen 

 brown, the base white irrorated with black, the anal tut't whitish 

 with two black streaks. Foie wing white tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with black especially on the veins of medial area, the 

 veins of terminal area with slight red streaks ; a slight waved 

 black subbasal line from eosta to vein 1 ; a waved black antemedial 

 line; a small black discoidal lunule with diffused bar above it 

 from costa and a diffused blackish patch on middle of inner margin ; 

 postmedial line black, oblique from eosta to vein 6, then minutely 

 dentate, defined by white on outer side with diffused fuscous beyond 



Fig. 45. — HoimapMchia atripalpns, (S . |. 



it interriipted by an oblique whitish streak above middle ; sub- 

 terminal line rather diffused, blackish, waved, angled inwards at 

 discal fold and with black spots beyond it below veins 4 and 2 ; 

 a lunulate black terminal line ; cilia white intersected with black 

 and with black patches below veins 4 and 2. Hind wing whitish 

 suffused and striated with fuscous brown, the basal area whiter, 

 the veins of terminal area with slight red srreaks; double difi^used 

 black marks at and beyond lower angle of cell and on vein 1 with 

 the whitish postmedial line beyond them from vein 4 to inner 

 margin ; a faint diff'used whitish subterminal line towards tornus ; 

 a lunulate black terminal line ; cilia white at base, chequered 

 brown and black at tips ; the underside grey suffused with brown 



