THTLACO PIER A . TRICHiET A . 



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51. Thylacoptera albipuncta, n. sp. 



c? . Black; antenna? at tips and frows white; patagia and 

 metathorax with white spots; abdomen with dorsal and lateral 



series of white spots ; lateral crim- 

 son spots on Gth segment and 

 bands on 7th and 8th segments. 

 Fore wing with hyaline streak in 

 cell ; a wedge-shaped patch below 

 vein 1 and spot above it towards 

 termen; a spot above base of 

 vein 2 ; a wedge-shaped patch 

 above 3 and small point above 4. 

 Hind wing with hyaline patch in, below, and beyond cell. 



2 . Fore wing with the hyaline patch below vein 1 reduced ; 

 an elongate streak below the cell and vein 2 reaching nearly to 

 termen, no spot above vein 2 ; an elongate spot above 6. 



Hah. Palawan, 1 2 type, (S in Coll. Staudinger. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Fig. 24. 

 Thylacoptera albipuncta, (^ . 



Genus TRICHiETA. 



Type. 



Trichceta, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. o2 (1802) teneiformis. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi downcurved, and not reaching as far as 

 frons. Fore wing with vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; C 

 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 2 from well 

 before angle of cell ; 3 and 5 from angle, or stalked ; 4 and 7 absent. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with veins 3, 5 on a long stalk. 



A. Antenna} simple and dilated beyond middle ; fore wing of male with a 

 fold above vein 5, the termen deeply indented at the extremity. 



52. Trichseta pterophorina. 



Syntomis ptcrophorina, Mab. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1892, p. 139; Nov. Lep. 

 pi. 21. f. 7. 



S . Black-brown ; antennte whitish at tips ; tegula?, patagia, 

 metathorax, and pectus with dull orange patches ; abdomen with 

 dorsal orange-yellow stripe not reaching base, and conjoined on 



terminal segment to the lateral 

 stripes ; a ventral stripe formed 

 of quadrate patches not reaching 

 the base. Fore wing with small 

 wedge-shaped semihy aline yellow 

 spot in end of cell ; an elongate 

 spot below cell ; a spot between 

 veins 3, 4 extending just above 4, 

 and a spot above 5, the last two 

 with distinct yellow edges. Hind wing with yellowish hyaline 

 patch below the cell and between veins 2 and 3, extending to 

 inner margin. 



Fig. 25. 

 Trichceta pterophorina, J , 



