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Genus DIPTYCHOPHORA. 



Diptych ophora, Zell. Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1866, p. 153. 

 Ditomoptera, Stnpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 179 (1893). 



Type, D. kuMweinii, Zell., from Brazil. 



Range. Neotropical, Oriental, and Australian regions. 



Palpi porrect, clothed with long hair and extending about the 

 length of head ; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled ; irons rounded ; 

 antennae of male somewhat thickened and flattened ; tibiae with 

 the spurs long and equal. Fore wing with the outer margin deeply 

 excised below apex and slightly below vein 5 ; vein 3 from near 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight and well separated from 

 8,9; 10 free; 11 free or becoming coincident with 12. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle. 



4179. Diptychophora minutalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 179, pi. 174, 



fig. 31. 

 Diptychophora praeniaturella, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 643 

 [nee 31ei/r.). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey and fulvous ; palpi yellowish. 

 Fore wing grey suffused with brown ; an indistinct curved ante- 

 medial line ; a yellowish-brown or bright yellow patch from costa 

 beyond middle embracing the blackish discocellular spot ; an 

 indistinct curved double submarginal line ; the apical area bright 

 yellow, with a white streak on it ; some yellow on margin and three 

 black spots below middle. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hab. Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Ceylon. Exp. 10 millim. 



4180. Diptychophora tripimctata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 226 ; C. fy S. 



no. 4681. 



c? . Orange fulvous, irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with 

 traces of dark specks on middle of costa; the apex orange, with 

 a fuscous line across it and a white spot on it ; the margin orange, 

 with three black spots at middle ; cilia fuscous, black at base. 

 Hind wing yellowish white. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 16 millim. 



4181. Diptychophora euzonella, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen almost pure white. Fore Aving 

 white, the basal area irrorated with brown, forming a large patch 

 on basal part of costa and a subbasal patch below the cell ; a 

 brown-edged bright fulvous antemedial band angled below costa ; 

 the discal area prominently irrorated with black-brown ; two 

 oblique fulvous fasciae across apex ; a fulvous marginal band 

 enclosing four black spots towards outer angle ; cilia silvery. 

 Hind wing white tinged with fuscous ; the cilia white. 



Hab. Khasis. ■ Exp. 14 millim. Types in coll. Rothschild and 

 B.M. 



