A New Family of the Lcpidopt 



era. 



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(4) *Sabalia tippelscirchi, Karsch., Ent. Nachs. 



xxiv, p. 293 (1898). E. Africa. 



(5) *Sabalia sericaria, Weymer, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 



1896, p. 88. E. Africa. 



Genus SPIRAMIOPSIS, nov. 



Proboscis absent : palpi porrect to just beyond frontal tuft and 

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

 branches, of female with short branches ; head and thorax clothed 

 with long hair; eyes overhung by a brush of hair from below base of 



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Sahcdia picarina, £ \. 



antenna? ; legs normal ; hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs. Fore- 

 wing with the apex slightly produced and acute, the termen strongly 

 excurved ; the cell short ; vein 3 from well before angle ; 5 from well 

 above angle of discocellulars ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 

 10 from beyond 8 ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell short ; 

 vein 3 from near angle ; 5 from near upper angle ; 6, 7 shortly stalked; 

 8 free from base, connected with cell by a bar at middle and closely 

 approximated to 7 beyond the cell. 



SPIRAMIOPSIS COMMA, n. Sp. 



c Head brownish white ; palpi red-brown above and with red- 

 brown hair at base ; thorax red-brown with a white line behind 

 tegulae and across patagia ; metathorax with white hair at extremity ; 



