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N0CTUID,?5. 



Avith some black at middle ; fore aud mid tibiae with some green ; 

 abdomen rufous. Pore wing bright moss-green with patches of 

 red-brown suffusion irrorated with black on antemedial, medial 

 and poritmedial areas ; siibbasal line represented by double black 

 striae from costa and cell filled in with green ; antemedial line 

 defined on each side hj green, oblique, waved, bent inwards to inner 

 margin ; obicular and renit'orm with green annuli, the former 

 elliptical Avith brown centre defined by black, the latter large with 

 some brown in lower part and small black spot r^"^r lower inner 

 edge which is almost straight ; postmedial line defined on each side 

 by green, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, slightly 

 incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 and angled outwards 

 on vein 1, a blackish patch beyond it in submedian interspace 

 and some white points on costa ; subterminal line formed of slight 

 white stride with series of dentate black marks before it in the 

 interspaces, incurved and with white spot at submedian fold; 

 a crenulate black terminal line with lunules in the interspaces ; cilia 

 green with series of black spots at tips. Hind wing red-brown ; 

 cilia ochreous mixed with red-brown ; the underside yellowish 

 suffused with pink and irrorated with black, a large black discoidal 

 spot and curved minutely crenulate postmedial line. 



5 . Tegulae with the terminal half green ; abdomen with the 

 dorsal crests tipped with green. 



Hab. Jamaica {Sturrich/e), 1 d" , 2 2 type. Cinchona (Kaye), 1 d . 

 Exp. 46-50 miUim. 



Genus ATEEPHES, nov. 



Type, A. cdbiluna. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint i-eaching 

 about middle of frous and thickly scaled, the cird short ; Irons with small 

 conical prominence with raised edges and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 

 rounded ; antenna of male typically bipectinate wiili short branches to apex ; 

 bead and thorax clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with 

 divided crest, tlie metathorax with spreading crest; tibiaa thickly fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests, the crest on 3rd segment large. 

 Fore wing bi-oad, the apex rounded, the ternien slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 

 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastouiosing with 

 8 to form the rather long areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 

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

 S anastomosing with ihe cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennaj of male bipectinate with short branches to apex. 



3082. Atrephes albiluna, n. sp. 



Head and thorax clothed with red-brown, grey, and black scales ; 

 tegulae with whitish tips ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey- 

 brown, the ventral surface whitish. Pore wing purplish grey-brown 

 irrorated with white, the veins suffused with greenish fuscous, the 

 basal inner area reddish ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 black stiiga from costa ; antemedial line oblique, waved ; claviform 

 small, defined by some small black scales; orbicular and reniform 

 rather small, with very incomplete annuli of white scales partially 



