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Genus BUCIARA. 

 Biwiara, Wlli. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 3G (1869) , 



Type. 

 bipccrtita. 



Proboscis fully developed ; paljsi upturned, the 1st and 2nd joints fringed 

 with long hair in front, the 3rd porrect, rather long ; frons smooth ; antennje 

 of male bipectinate with moderate branches to three-fourths, the apical part 

 simple ; prothorax with spreading crest, metathorax with large crest ; hind 

 tibite with one spine between the spurs ; abdomen with dorsal crests on 2nd 

 and 3rd segments. Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 

 from upper angle ; 9 froni 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell ; the inner margin with slight scale-teeth near base and towards torn us, 

 the termen crenulate and slightly angled at vein 3. Hind wing with veins 3, 

 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; the termen crenulate and excised at discal fold. 



223. Biiciara bipartita. 



Buciara bipartita, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 36 (1869). 

 Actinotia acmophora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 370. 



c5" . Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish-brown and black ; 

 palpi and frons with blackish patches ; black streaks across tegulse ; 

 patagia at extremities and metathoracic crest black ; abdomen grey, 

 dorsally tinged with fuscous brown, the crests black. Pore wing 

 grey, irrorated with fuscous and suifused in parts with reddish brown; 



Fig. 4:2. — Buciara bipartita, $ . \. 



the subbasal line represented by a double oblique striga from costa ; 

 the autemedial line double, strongly angled outAvards below costa 

 and cell and above inner margin and inwards on median nervure 

 and vein 1 ; orbicular very narrow, oblique, with brown centre and 

 grey annulus defined by black ; reniform with indistinct grey 

 anuulus defined by black on inner side ; postmedial line double at 

 costa, then indistinct, angled outwards below costa, incurved at 

 discal fold, somewhat dentate at median nervules, angled inwards 

 to autemedial line in submedian fold, then prominent, double, angled 

 outwards above vein 1 and filled in and defined on outer side by 

 whitish ; an oblique diffused dark bar from apex ; the subterminal 

 line represented by black streaks in the interspaces, longest and 

 placed on a whitish patch at middle ; an oblique dark fascia with 

 dentate black marks on it from termen at vein 3 to angle of post- 

 medial line above vein 1 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; 

 cilia dark brown with grey line at base. Hind wing white, the 

 terminal half fuscous; cilia white intersected with brown. The 



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