SYREtrSIS. DirAEOPSTS. 



509 



oblique, incurved from below costa to vein 1, tben waved, defined 

 by a narrow black-brown band on outer side to vein 1, then by a 

 line ; the medial area pale pink suffused with yellowish towards eosta 

 and with crimson towards postmedial line ; a whitish Hue from costa 

 before the postmedial line, defined by black on outer side from below 

 costa to discal fold, excurved to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, then 

 downcurved to above middle of vein 1 and upwards to below costa 



Fig. 105. — Syrrusis notabilis, J' . f . 



on outer edge of the dark basal area, a pale flesh-coloured patch 

 above it below the cell conjoined to the narrow lunulate flesh-coloured 

 reniform with its extremities much produced; a small triangular 

 black medial spot on subcostal nervnre with some reddish above it 

 on costa ; some yellow and crimson beyond the cell defining the 

 inner side of the whitish line to vein 2 ; postmedial line dark red- 

 brown, minutely waved, strongly excurved to vein 4, then oblique, 

 two similar but paler and flner lines beyond it, the outer expanding 

 into a dark wedge-shaped mark from costa with some yellow points 

 on costa ; an orange-yellow line just before termen ; cilia deep 

 chestnut-red. Hind wing yellowish white suffused with orange ; 

 cilia orange at base, pale at tips. Underside of fore wing pale with 

 the costal half suff'used with red leaving some yellow on costa, a 

 slight reddish discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line except on 

 inner area ; hind wing yellowish white, the costa irrorated with red, 

 a red discoidal point and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Madagascak, Antananarivo (Kinydon), 2 d type. Ex2^. 40 

 millim. 



Genus DIPAROPSIS. 



DijMropsis, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 294 (1902). 



Type. 

 castanea. 



Proboscis aborted, small; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching to 

 vertex of head and slightly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd long, porrect; 

 frons witli flattened corneous plate below with rounded outer edge and flattened 

 plate at middle rather pointed at extremity and keeled below ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennse of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex, of female with 

 short branches ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the paiagia very roughly 

 scaled, the metatliorax with spreading crest ; tibia moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and hardly 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 the cell to near 

 middle. 



