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inner margin pale. On both wings a fine, pale, marginal line. Under 

 side of the wings, the markings are more distinct ; fore-wing with a 

 black spot in the cell and one at the end of it. A distinct medial line and 

 postmedial band. Hind-wing with a dark spot near the base, an aute- 

 medial, distinct medial and a postmedial, zigzag line. The area between 

 medial and postmedial lines is darker, forming a band. 



Length of wing, d: 34 millimeters. 



Length of wing, ? : unknown. 



Manila, P. I. 



Time of capture: December, 1905; (Charles S. Banks, collector.) 



Type c?. No. 4808, in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science. 



Manila, P. I. 



CRUSISETA gen. nov. 



6', palpi with the second joint thickened and reaching vertex of head, 

 the third short and blunt; antennte bipectinated, the pectinations short. 

 Thorax clothed with long hairs. Abdomen slender, dorsally with hair 

 tufts to fourth segment, then smoothly scaled and an anal tuft of moderate 

 length. Fore and mid femur and tibia hairy, hind tibia and tarsi with 

 very long tufts of hair. Mid and hind tibite with spines. Fore-wing; 

 costa nearly straight, slightly curved towards apex; apex slightly angled, 

 outer margin slightly curved, on the inner margin near the base a 

 moderate tuft of erect hair scales. Hind-wing with apex slightly rounded, 

 inner margin fringed with long hair. 



Type : G. basipuncta. 



In classification I place this new genus after the genus Crithote,'' 

 Wlk. Jour. Linn. Soc. (1864), 7, 182. 



Crusiseta basipuncta sp. nov. (PI. I, fig. 9.) 



Palpi dark brown; head, collar and anterior lialf of thorax dark brown, 

 changing to fuscous on the metathorax. Abdomen fuscous. Legs, except 

 the tarsi, dark brown. Fore-wing with a straight, antemedial, yellowish 

 line, oblique from the inner margin near the base to subcosta. Base and 

 area along the costa purple-gray. A distinct, dark brown spot near the 

 base and upper angle of the wing. Outer area dark brown, growing 

 lighter towards the outer margin, which is purplish-gray. The tuft of 

 hair scales at the inner margin dark brown. Hind-wing fuscous. 



Length of wing, <S : 16 millimeters. 



Length of wing, ? : unlcnown. 



Manila, P. I. 



Time of capture: August, 1905. (Charles S. Banks, collector.) 



Type (S, No. 3984, in Entomological Collection, Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, P. I. 



'Hampson: Fauna of Br. Ind., Moths (1894), 2, 541. 

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