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IX. A Classification of a new Family of the Lepidoptera. 

 By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., B.A., F.Z.S., etc. 



[Read May 1st, 1901.] 



Family SABALIAD^E, nov. 



Proboscis absent ; antennae of male with long drooping branches, 

 of female with short branches. Forewing with vein 1 a slender, run- 

 ning into lb ', \ c absent ; 5 from above angle of discocellulars ; 7, 

 8, 9, 10 stalked, 10 from beyond 8 or absent ; 11 from cell, free. 

 Hindwing with the frenulum absent, the base of costa lobed ; vein 

 1 a to inner margin before tornus ; 1 c absent ; 5 from above angle 

 of discocellulars ; 8 free from base, connected with the cell by a bar 

 and approximated to 7 beyond the cell ; a precostal vein. 



The family cannot be called Lemoniadse, which is preoccupied in 

 the butterflies ; it is closely allied to the Brahmseidse which however 

 have the proboscis fully developed and a different facies. 



The genus Lemonia was placed by Dr. Aurivillius in th e 

 Striplioropterygidse = Eupterotidse, Iris vii, p. 186 (1894) ; this 

 family however has the frenulum present and vein 8 of the hind- 

 wing widely separated from 7 beyond the cell. 



Species marked (*) are not in the British Museum. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Fore tarsi with very large serrate terminal claws . Lemonia. 



B. Fore tarsi with the claws normal. 



(a.) Fore tibiae with curved claw at extremity on 

 outer side and long curved claw at extremity 

 of the joint of tarsus on inner side .... Sabalia. 



(6.) Fore tibiae and tarsi without claws except the 



terminal claws of tarsi Spiramiopsis. 



Genus Lemonia. 



Type. 

 Lemonia, Hiibn. Verz., p. 187 (1827) taraxaci. 



Crateronyx, Dup. Cat. Meth. Lep., p. 77 (1844) . . dnmi. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect not reaching beyond frontal tuft 

 and fringed with long hair below ; antennae of male with long drooping 

 branches, of female with shorter branches ; fore tibiae and tarsi very 



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