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extremely long, and fringed with hair above, the 2nd joint bent 
back at an acute angle to above vertex of head, the 3rd a long 
flattened process with a tuft of long hair from its base ; antenne 
with long bristles and cilia ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled ; 
tibiee slightly hairy. Fore wing with the apex slightly acute. 
Hind wing with vein 5 from near lower angle of cell. 
2. Palpi with the lst joint short, the 2nd curved or obliquely 
upturned and of moderate length, the 3rd upturned, long, and 
very slender. 
The typical American section has a sheath to the fore tibia con- 
taining a mass of flocculent scales. : 
Sror. II. Fore tibia with no sheath containing flocculent scales. 
A. Each jownt of palpus in male very long, the 3rd extending 
to nuddle of abdomen. 
2831. Mastigophorus brontesalis, Wik. Cat. xvi, p. 151. 
~~ Mastygophora scopigeralis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 86; Waterh. 
Aid, ii, pl. 178, fig. 3; C. & S. no. 2964. 
3. Dark fuscous red-brown; palpi with the tuft ochreous. 
Fore wing with the basal area and a broad postmedial sinuous 
band darkest ; two dark specks often present at end of cell; in- 
distinct dark lines parallel 
to each edge of the post- 
medial band; a pair of 
black specks on the inner 
line and inner edge of band 
above mnermargin; amar- 
ginal series of black specks. 
Hind wing with traces of 
a broad dark postmedial 
Fig. 22.—Mastigophorus brontesalis, S. 4. band, with a line before its 
inner edge and a series of 
specks beyond its outer. Underside whitish, with lunule at end 
of cell, crenulate postmedial line, and fuscous outer area, with 
waved pale submarginal line to each wing. 
@. With the fore wing more uniformly coloured, and without the 
pair of dark specks above inner margin. 
Hab. Sikbim; Khasis; Sibsdgar; Borneo. Hap. 42 millim. 
2832. Mastigophorus duplicifascia, n. sp. 
g. Dark fuscous brown. Fore wing with large black reniform 
spot; an oblique ochreous postmedial band traversed by a dark 
line; a highly sinuous submarginal pale line ; a marginal series of 
black specks. Hind wing pale fuscous, with pale oblique medial 
line and traces of a waved submarginal line ; a marginal series of 
black specks. Underside with cell-spot, waved postmedial and 
submarginal lines to each wing. 
Hab. Sikhim. ap. 34 millim. Type in B. M. 
