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Sect. I. {Licnoptera). Antennae of male ciliated ; hind wing with the costal 

 area greatly expanded, the apex truncate, veins 6, 7 diverging widely 

 from their "fork, the inner margin with a fold with a tuft of long hair 

 in it. 



*703. Licnoptera crocodora. 



Licnoptera crocodora, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1839, p. 461 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 pp. 307, 342. 



S . Head and tegulse golden yellow ; palpi and antennae brownish; 

 thorax purple, with yellow patch on mesothorax ; legs whitish ; 

 fore tibiffi and tarsi pure white with fuscous rings ; (abdomen 

 wanting). Pore wing golden yellow ; the base purple, with 

 minutely waved oblique outer edge ; the terminal area purple- 

 brown, with minutely waved and curved black line on its inner side, 



Fig. 233. — Licnoptera crocodora, (^ . \. 



and a large yellow patch on it from apex to vein 4 edged by a minutely 

 waved black line ; a terminal white line interrupted in places. 

 Hind wing whitish, with the terminal area from vein 3 to tornus 

 broadly suffused with pale brown ; the fringe of hair on inner area 

 fulvous. 



Hah. N. Guinea (Saijer), type t c? in Coll. Meyrick. Eirj-). 20 

 millim. 



Sect. II. (Goniosema). Antenna of male bipectinate; hind wing normal. 

 *704. Licnoptera anguliscripta. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 2.) 



Chiriphe anguliscripta, Lucas, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) iv. p. 1879 (1890) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 348. 



5 . Head and thorax yellowish white ; palpi and antennae black, 

 the latter whitish towards tips ; thorax tinged with black and with 

 a black band behind tegulae ; legs with fuscous streaks ; abdomen 

 fuscous, with fulvous anal tuft. Fore wing yellowish white ; a 

 black patch at base of costa produced to points on lower and outer 

 sides; the antemedial line represented by two oblique conjoined spots 

 below costa, a strongly incurved mark in submedian interspace and a 

 spot above inner margin ; a medial line strongly excurved in cell and 

 incurved in submedian interspace, and conjoined on costal area to 

 two spots on its outer side forming part of a maculate line which is 



