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SCHULTZE. 



THYKIDID^E. 



Fig. 2. 



VERNIFILIA, gen. nov. 



2 Palpi thickly sealed ; reaching above vertex of head ; antennae simple. 

 Legs with femora and tibia? hairy, mid tibiae with one pair of spurs, 

 hind one with two pairs. Fore-wing with the costa nearly straight, 

 slightly toward apex ; acute. 



Outer, margin below apex somewhat excised. 

 Vein V from lower angle and veins A^II, VIII, 

 IX from close to upper angle of the cell ; vein 

 IX forked with vein X. Hind-wing, outer 

 margin evenly rounded, veins IV, V, VI from 

 close to lower angle and vein VII from the 

 upper angle of the cell. Thorax and abdomen 

 rather stout. Fig. 2. 



Vernifilia hyalipuncta, gen. et sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 4.) 



c? Head red-brown; thorax, abdomen and 

 wings above, ocherish-red, latter somewhat 

 lighter basally and with numerous fine dark 

 striae all over. Fore-wing with a row of four medial, semihyaline spots 

 of which two are between veins I and II and the others between II— III 

 and III— IV. The second spot from behind double. Marginal line, 

 dark-brown, cilia grey. Hind-wing; cilia, interior half dark-brown, 

 exterior half white. Underside of both wings darker, the striae longer 

 and more pronounced ; traces of a medial, broad, greyish band. Fore- 

 wing with a large, dark-brown spot just below the apex on outer margin. 

 Abdomen below, greyish ; fore f emur and tibia dark-brown, others above, 

 greyish, below ocherish. Tarsi above dark-brown; below ocherish with 

 stripes of the same color above. 



2 with the striae arranged in more definite lines. 



Length of wing, <$ : 15 millimeters. 



Length of wing, 2: 16 millimeters. 



Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, Mindanao, P. I. 



Time of capture: March and May, 1907. (Rev. Joseph Clemens, 

 United States Army, collector.) 



Types Nos., c? 7562, and 2 7380, in Entomological collection. Bureau 

 of Science, Manila, P. I. 



This new genus should be placed before Dysodia Clem., as given by 

 Clemens and by Hampson. 1 



1 Dysodia, Clemens, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila. (1860), 349. Dysodia Clemens, 

 Hampson, Fauna Br. Ind., Moths (1892), 1, 308. 



