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and the lliird pair ihroiiohout aie blue-black. 'I'lie anterior wings are blue-black 

 with a n:irrow translucent ray near base. The secondaries are also blue-black with 

 the basal lliiid ti.inskurnl, and an elonoated subpxrifoim translucent bar beyond 

 the cell JList above and jjarallel to the third median nervule. Ex]ianse, sS.nini. 



IIPL'LAMIMA H.AVIFRONS TRICHOBATES SEXSTRIATA 



HOLL. r{\ ]. HOI.L. (^, \. 



Trlchobaptesjl gen. nov. 



3 . — I'alpi moderately long, and compressed ; the (Irst and second joints 

 hairy, the third joint minute and subconical. The antenn:v are relatively long, 

 dilated beyond the middle, squamosa. 'I'he anterior legs have the tibia; without 

 spurs, heavily clothed with hairs. The second pair of legs have double spurs at 

 the end of the tibia\ which are still more heaviiy clothed with hairs than the first 

 pair. The third pair of legs have a median and double terminal spurs on the 

 tibi-.e, which are profusely clothed with hairs and have at the upper end a broad 

 fan-like brush of hairs which spreads out and covers tjie hairy brush-like covering 

 of the tibia'. 1 he ncuration 1 have not been able to accurately determine for the 

 same reason as in the case of the last genus. I vpe 7'. si\xslria/n Holland. 



T. sexstriata sp. nov. 



^ I'alj^i black .above, bright orange-yellow below. The aiitenniv are black, 

 marked with white before the tip on tlie upper-side. The front is black. The 

 collar is blue-green. The top of the thorax is black defined posteriorly by a narrow 

 white line, 'f he patagia are orange-yellow. The abdomen is black, banded at the 

 base ami on the middle of the upper side with orange-yellow, and before the tip, 

 which is black, with crimson. The pectus is white ; the lower side of the thorax is 

 black ; the lower side of the abdomen is crimson with a ventral row of black dots. 

 I'he femora of the three pair of legs are black, marked at either end with white. 

 'I'he tibia' are bright crimson, with, the upper ends black. The crimson brush of 

 hairs on the tibia- of the second pair is banded on the middle with white. On the 

 third pair the crimson brush is marked externally b\' a round black spot. The fan- 

 like brush at the upper end of the tibia' of the last \ymv is fulvous orange. The 

 piimaries above and below are black, crossed by three yellowish semitranskicent 

 bands. The secondaries are black with the middle area diaphanous and devoid of 

 scales. On the underside the secondaiies have in addition to the markings f)f the 

 upper siile a yellowish transverse band running from the anal angle inwardly \o the 

 middle, and the inner margin laved with yellowish before the base, l-'.xpanse, 

 32 mm. 



This o,;iilv rolofcd and singiilai' moth is alloocther oiif of the 

 lUdSl !)t'aiilii"iil insects of the o-i-,iup to which it belongs. 



'lV7\;o/:«-77//r = '!"' '"Hi:"" tiugit. 



