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Genus TABIDIA. 

 Tabidia, Snell Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 219 (1880). 



Type, T. insanalis, Snell., from Celebes, Duke of York and 

 Shortland Islands. 



Range. Ceylon ; Malayan and Australasian subregions. 



_ Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint not reaching vertex of head and 

 slightly scaled, the 3rd long and acuminate ; maxillary palpi 

 minute and filiform ; frons rounded ; antenna? of male thickened 

 and flattened ; the outer spurs about two-thirds length of inner, 

 Fore wing of male with a recumbent valve of large scales from 

 base of median nervure above ; veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at 

 origin, 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9, to which 10 

 is closely approximated. Hind wing with the cell rather short ; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



In the typical species vein 2 of the fore wing arises near base 

 of median nervure. 



4787. Tabidia aculealis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1427. 



Isopteryx trisignata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 306 ; C. fy. S. no. 4435. 



<5 . Head and thorax white ; the collar and shoulders spotted 

 with fuscous ; abdomen rufous and fuscous, whitish at base. 

 Fore wing whitish ; the basal half of costa dark ; three large dark 

 annuli, at base, middle, and end of cell, the upper part of their 



rings broadest, the 1st connected 

 with a dark mark at base of 

 inner margin, and with another 

 on outer side below median nervure 

 conuected with the inner margin 

 by an obscure line; the post- 

 medial line arising from a dark 

 Fig. 159. — Tabidia aculealis, $ . \. costal mark, minutely dentate from 



costa to vein 2, then retracted to 

 lower angle of cell, the area beyond it pale fulvous. Hind wing 

 with the basal area whitish ; antemedial and medial oblique lines 

 ending near anal angle, above which there is a fuscous streak ; the 

 area beyond the medial line pale fulvous ; a dark line through the 

 cilia. 



Bab. Ceylon; PuloLaut; Sula Islands, Celebes. Exp. 18millim. 



Genus EUEEHYPAEODES. 



Eurrhvparodes, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 215 (1880). 

 Molybdantha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 309. 



Type, E. bracteolalis, Zell. 



Mange. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian regions. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled in front, the 3rd 

 short and blunt ; maxillary palpi nearly as long as the labial and 

 dilated with scales at extremity ; frons rounded : antennae annu- 



