128 LEPIBOPTERA INDICA. 



Scbmett. ii. p. 47, pi. 2 (1892). Loecb, Butt, of China, ii. p. 509 (1893). Kirby, Allen's Nat. 

 Hist. Butt. ii. p. 248 (1896). 

 Teinoprosopiis, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Ges. xiv. pp. 289, 331 (1864). 



Imago. — Male. Foreiving triangular, slightly falcate, costa convex towards the 

 end, apex pointed, exterior margin very oblique, almost even, posterior margin short, 

 the angle obtuse ; costal vein stout, extending to three-fourths the margin ; first 

 and second subcostal branches at equal distances apart, first branch emitted at about 

 one-fifth before end of the cell, third branch at end of the cell and terminating at 

 the apex, fourth and fifth branch at nearly one-fourth beyond the cell ; discoidal 

 cell broad, not reaching to half the wing ; upper discocellular veinlet very short, 

 middle discocellular long and slightly concave ; upper radial from their angle, lower 

 discocellular and radial appearing as a fourth median branch ; median branches 

 equidistant ; median vein with an incipient cross-veinlet from below near the base ; 

 submedian vein much curved from the base and emitting a lower lengthened basal 

 veinlet. Eindwing triangularly-ovate ; anterior margin rather long and slightly 

 arched; exterior margin convex, dentated, and with a lengthened slender tail from 

 the upper median in the male, and in the female also with a shorter tail from the 

 radial and lower subcostal ; abdominal margin long ; precostal veinlet bifid, the 

 inner point short ; interno-basal costal cell prominent ; discoidal cell long, extending 

 to more than half the wing. Body very stout ; head large and conically produced 

 in front, hairy ; eyes prominent ; palpi long, porrect, convergent at the tip, 

 projected beyond the front, basal joint short, second joint long, clothed with scales 

 and long hairs, third joint about half the length of second, pointed, clothed with 

 oppressed scales ; antennae short, curved at the tip, gradually clavate, club short 

 and slightly truncate ; legs moderately robust ; fore tibia with a short stout spur 

 covered by a tuft of hairs ; tarsi spiny, first joint about equal in length to the others 

 combined ; claws simple, curved. 



Type. — T. imperialis. 



TEINOPALPTJS IMPERIALIS (Plate 414, figs. 1, la, c?, lb, c, ? ). 



Teinopalpus imperialis, Hope, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xix. p. 131, pi. 11, fig. 1, 2, S (1843). 



Westwood, Arcana Entom. ii. p. 41, pi. 59, (J (1843). Doubleday and Hevritson, Gen. D. Lep. i. 



p. 2, pi. 1, fig. 1, ? (1846). Staudinger, Exot. Scbmett. i. pi. 14, c? (1S84). Kirby, Allen's 



K^at. Hist. Butt.ii. p. 248 (1896). 

 Teinopalpus Parryice, Hope, Trans. Lien. Soc. Lond. xix. p. 131, pi. 11, fig. 3, 4 (1843). Westwood, 



Arc. Ent. ii. pi. 60, ? (1843). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside. Foreiving black, densely covered with golden-green 

 scales, these green scales darkest on the basal area, which latter is edged by 

 a transverse inner-discal outwardly-oblique slightly incurved narrow black line, 



