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Family LYMANTRIADAE. 

 Anthela ruhicvnda, Swin., one male example. 



Family GEOMETRIDAE. 



Taxeotis, sp. One female example. 



Boarmia, sp. One male example, somewhat rubbed, 

 which I am unable to identify. 



Harpagocnema, n. gen. (ap7r ay OKvr)iJLo<?, with booked sliins). 



Frons with well-marked rounded prominencs. Tongue 

 well developed. Palpi moderately long (2), porrect ; second 

 joint thickened with scales beneath; terminal joint short, 

 obtuse. Antennae of male shortly bipectinate, towards apex 

 simple. Thorax with a sharp keel-shaped anterior crest, its 

 apex bent forwards; beneath densely hairy. Abdomen 

 smooth. Anterior tibiae very short with two stout horny 

 apical hooks, the inner hook long, the outer very short. Pos- 

 terior tibiae of male not dilated. Forewings narrow-elongate ; 

 in male without fovea; 10 and 11 long-stalked, not 

 anastomosing. Hindwings much broader than forewings 

 (over 2); cell long (|). 



One of the ChJenias group, apparently near Copusa, but 

 very distinct in the stalking of veins 10 and 11, hooked 

 anterior tibiae, sharp anterior thoracic crest, and pectinations 

 of male antennae. 



Harpagocnema eremoplana, n. sp. 



{iprj/jLOTrXavos, wandering in tlie desert). 



c? , 9 ; 39-42 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi dark-grey, 

 irrorated with whitish ; centre of face brownish-ochreous. 

 Antennae ochreous-fuscous; pectinations in male 2, apical 

 ^ simple. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, irrorated with grey. 

 Legs whitish, irrorated with dark-fuscous ; anterior pair dark- 

 fuscous. Forewings narrow-elongate, costa gently arched 

 towards apex, apex subrectangular, termen rather obliquely 

 rounded, finely dentate; dark-grey, with some whitish irror- 

 ation and some blackish streaks on veins; a blackish streak 

 on dorsum from near base to tornus; cilia grey. Hindwings 

 with termen doubly sinuate ; whitish, with grey streaks on 

 veins; a grey discal spot beyond middle; a dark-grey suffusion 

 at apex; cilia whitish, at apex grey. 



Two examples. 



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