TEICHOETHOSIA. PAEAXESTIA. 



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Hah. Japax, Yokohama (Pri/er), 5 c5' , 1 $ type, Xiushiu, 1 6 , 

 3 $ ; E. China, Da-laen-sau \j. J. Wallcer), 1 $ . Ea'ii. 46-5i 

 millim. 



Genus TRICHOHTHOSIA. ^^ ^ 



Type. 



Trichorthosia, Grote, Pap. iii. p. 31 (1883) parallela. 



Proboscis rather weak ; palpi rather short, obhque, the 3rd joint conical ; 

 eyes large, round, hairy and ovei-hung by long cilia ; head and thorax clothed 

 with loose hair, the latter without crests ; fore tibice not spined ; mid and hind 

 tibite spined, the spines irregularly disposed near end of tibi^ ; abdomen 

 without crests. Fore wing with the costa straight, the apex acute, the termen 

 rounded ; neuration normal. 



This genus is not in the Key and Phylogeny ; the only other 

 genus with hairy eyes and spined tibia) is Ala. 



*1045. Trichortliosia parallela. 



Trichorthosia par allela, Grote, Papilio, iii. p. 31 (1883) ; Smith, Cat. IS'oet. 

 N. Am. p. 210. 



Olive ochreous. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 double, faint ; orbicular represented by a dark point ; renif orm 

 tinged Avith red and with some black points below ; subterminal 

 line double, the inner the stronger, not continued to costa, the 

 terminal area suffused with white. Hind wing fuscous ; the cilia 

 pale. 



Hah. U.S.A., New Mexico. Exj). 28 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



Genus PAEAXESTIA, nov. 



Type, P.flavicaudafa. 



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

 vertex of head, fringed with hair in front and behind at base, the 3rd joint 

 long, naked, porrect ; frons smooth; eyes large, overhung by long cilia; antennae 

 of male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with long hair without crests; fore 

 tibiaj without spines ; mid and hind tibise strongly spined ; abdomen dorsally 

 clothed with long hair at base, the claspers of male large. Fore wing with 

 the apex somewhat produced, the termen crenulate ; 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 the cilia crenulate; veins 3, 4 from 

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

 angle. 



1046. Paraxestia flavicaiidata. 



Ariiphipyraflavicauclata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 312; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. 

 ii. p. 196. 



Head and thorax yellow-brown mixed with dark brown and 

 man}' of the hairs tipped with grey ; abdomen reddish brown, the 

 ventral surface and claspers of male yellower. Fore wing pale 

 purplish brown ; a subbasal brown line from costa to submedian 

 fold and with brownish suffusion between it and the two antemedial 

 lines, which are waved and incurved in cell and at vein 1, the inner 



