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area suffused with bright rufous ; subbasal line double filled in with 

 grey, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with grey, oblique, sinuous, bent inwards to inner margin; 

 orbicular creamj^ white tinged with rufous, rounded, connected with 

 costa by a pale mark and by pale suffusion with lower part of reni- 

 form which is narrow above, with rufous centre and creamy annulus, 

 a V-shaped blackish mark between them ; an indistinct waved 

 medial line ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, bent 

 outwards to inner margin, some pale points beyond it on costa and 

 slight dark strise on median nervules ; sub terminal line slightly defined 

 by rufous on outer side and with prom.inent black spot before it below 

 costa, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3; , 

 a fine waved terminal line ; cilia brown with pale rufous line at. 

 base. Hind wing red-brown suftused with fuscous ; a fine waved 

 terminal line ; cilia rufous ; the underside rufous slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and curved waved postmedial 

 line. 



Ilai. SiKHiM (Atl-inson, Mailer), 4 (S type. Exy. 36 millim. 



Genus MEGANEPHRIA. 



Type. 



MeganepJiria, Hiibn. Verz. p. 206 (1827) oxyacanthce. 



Belosticta, Biitl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 357 (1879) extensa. 



Miselia, Hiibn. Tent. ined. (uec Treit.) oxyacantlue. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with hair in front, the 3rd typically short : frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennae of male typically bipectinate with rather short branches to apex, of 

 female serrate ; head and thorax smoothly clothed chiefly with scales, the 

 thorax quadrately scaled, the vertex of head, pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests : pectus and legs fringed with long hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on 

 basal segments and lateral fringes of hair towards extremity. Fore wing 

 rather broad, the apex rounded, 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 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell 

 near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennte of female bipectinate with moderate branches, the apex 

 serrate; palpi with the 3rd joint long. 



*2473. Meganephria tancrei. 



Miselia tancrei, Grses. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 329 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 181. 



$ . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with ochreous white,; 

 tegulce with slight black medial line ; patagia whitish with black 

 upper edge ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous brojvn 

 slightly mixed with whitish, the ventral surface ochreous white 

 irrorated with brown. Pore wing greyish suffused and irrorated 

 with fuscous brown, the basal area to submedian fold and the cell 

 brownish ochreous ; subbasal line double , waved, from costa to 

 submedian fold, in which there is a black streak with dark brown 



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