HETEROCERA. 



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medio-terminad from just before middle of costa, white outlined with ochraceous 

 orange, sharply angled just before discocellulars, then sharply oblique to inner 

 margin at about one-third, fuscous mixed with ochraceous orange ; a white 

 discocellular lunule ; a deeply bowed (concavity basad), wavy, postmedial 

 fascia, more or less parallel with termen from vein M 2 to inner margin, white, 

 edged on each side with fuscous ; before the apex a white lunulate mark, con- 

 cave and edged with fuscous terminad, broadest costad. Hindwing light drab, 

 with bowed, wavy, fuscous-outlined white antemedial and postmedial fasciae. 

 Underside similar, slightly paler, with the postmedial fascia on both wings set 

 considerably nearer the termen. 

 Expanse : 16 mm. 



Neallotype Upolu : Apia, 29. iv. 1924. 



Meyrick described the $ only, and drew particular attention to its remarkable 

 palpi, which are " clothed with very long fine dense hairs capable of depression 

 and expansion, terminal joint concealed." Hampson (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1896, p. 491) treats T. neophyla as a synonym of T. cretacea Butler, an action 

 which Meyrick (Exot. Microlep, iv, p. 159, 1931) rightly considers unjustifiable. 



Latagognoma, gen. n. 



Proboscis well-developed ; maxillary palpus dilated with scales ; labial 

 palpus upcurved, barely reaching vertex of head, third segment acuminate, 

 nearly as long as second. Antenna of male stout, axinomerous.* Legs smoothly 

 scaled. Fore wing with veins E 2 , R3 and R 4 stalked, R 2 arising at one-fourth, 

 R 4 at one-half, R 5 absent ; M 2 stalked with M 3 at one-fourth, Cui close to angle 

 of cell, Cu 2 fairly close to Cui . Hindwing with Rs arising from Sc about half- 

 way between upper angle of cell and costa ; cell length about one-fourth wing 

 length ; vein Mx from upper angle, M 2 + M 3 coincident, arising from Cux 

 at two-thirds, Cu 2 from angle of cell. 



Genotype. Latagognoma dacryodes Tarns sp. n. 



159. Latagognoma dacryodes, sp. n. (Plate XVIII, figs. 15, 16). 



Palpus claret brown, mixed with some warm buff. Antenna drab, the shaft 

 shaded with claret brown. Head and thorax claret brown. Abdomen warm 



* I have been unable to find a term to describe this type of antenna, in which each segment 

 is shaped rather like an axe-head ; the segments are placed close together, so that the whole 

 antenna is rather like a sickle, with a thick dorsal edge and a thin ventral edge. 



