KONOPTY A, — EHTNCirOPLEXIA. 433 



inner margin before the antemedial line, which is slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and in cell and strongly in submedian fold, 

 then oblique, sinuous ; claviform defined by black, acute at extre- 

 mity ; orbicular defined by black, oblique elliptical ; reniform very 

 indistinctly and partially defined by black ; medial line oblique and 

 sinuous from costa to lower angle of cell, then angled inwards in 

 submedian fold ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, slightly 



Monoptya leucobasis, $ . 



incurved at discal fold, then oblique, minutely waved and angled 

 inwards in submedian fold, crossed by black streaks in the inter- 

 spaces from vein 6 to below 2 extending to termen ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of slight dentate black marks ; some 

 pale points on apical part of termen ; a terminal series of slight 

 black lunules. Hind wing fuscous black, the basal and inner area 

 to beyond middle white; a fine pale line at base of cilia; the 

 underside with the dark areas slightly irrorated with white. 

 Hab. Bahamas, Abaco (Bonhote), 2 $ type. E.vjy. 36 millim. 



Genus RHYNCHOPLEXIA, nov. 



Type, JR. rubra. 



Pi-oboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 •with long hair in front, the 3rd long, naked, porrect ; frons smooth with tuft 

 of hair ; eyes large, rounded ; antennte of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests; tibiae fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. 

 Fore wing with 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 just below middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing purplish red, the reniform defined by white 



marks on outer side rubra. 



B. Fore wing fuscous brown, the reniform not defined by 



white marks on outer side griseiniarginata. 



3271. Rhynchoplexia rubra. 



Ancara rubra, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 225 (1894). 



c? . Head and thorax bright purplish rufous ; sides of palpi and 

 frons dark brown ; tibiae and tarsi dark brown ringed with ochreous ; 

 abdomen brown, whitish at base, the anal tuft ochreous, the ventral 

 surface rufous. Fore wing bright purplish rufous sparsely irrorated 



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