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short, ciliate-serrate. Thorax short, squaraose. Abdomen not ex- 

 tending beyond the hind wings. Legs long, slender. Wings 

 rather broad. Fure wings with the exterior border angular and 

 excavated. 



1. Rhynchodes phal.eniformis. 



Flava ; palpi obscuriores, apice nigricantes ; alee anticce ochraceo- 

 Jlavce, lineis duabus iransversis pallidioribus subobsoletis 

 remotis parallelis apud costam arcuatis, reniformi e macula 

 intermedia fusee scente^ ciliis apice nigricantibus, 



Rhynchodes phaluenifurinis, Guen, Noct. ii. 394, 1254. 



South Africa. 



Genus 2. COSMOPHILA. 



Corpus vix robustura. Proboscis sat longa. Palpi erecti ; 

 articulus 2us valid us, pilosus ; 3us cylindricus, acuminatus, 21 

 dimidio longior. Antennae pubescentes aut subpectinatae, corporis 

 dimidio non longiores. Abdomen alas posticas paullo superans. 

 Pedes sat graciles, non pilosi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus longissirnis. 

 AlaE sat latae ; anticae seepissime luteae, apud costam rectae, apice 

 acutae, margine exteriore angulato. 



Cosmophila, Boisd, Faune Ent, Mad, Bomb, et Maw\ Lep. 94. 

 ' Guen. Noct. ii. 394. 



Body hardly stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi as:-. 

 cending, vertical ; second joint stout, pilose; third cylindrical, acu- 

 minated, more than halt the length of the second. AnienLiiy 

 pubescent or minutely pectinated, about half the length of the body- 

 Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind wings. Legs rather 

 slender, not pilose ; tibiae with very long spurs. Wings moderately 

 broad. Fore wings mostly luteous, straight in front, acute at the 

 !tips, angular in the middle of the exterior border. 



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A. Palporum articulus 3us 2i dimidio paullo longior. erosa, H'dbn. 



B. Palporum articulus 3us 2o paullo brevior. 

 A. Alae posticae non albidae. 



^ A. Alae anticae vix biculores. - - - Indica, Gnen. 

 j B. Alae posticae distinctissime bicolores. xanthyndiuja, Boisd. 

 ' A. Alae posticae albidae. - - - - auragoides, G^?<e». 



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