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NYMPHAL1D.E. 
Genus CLEROME. 
Clerome, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 333 (1851). 
" Body moderately robust. Wings large, plainly coloured, with a row of small spots beneath the 
middle and the outer margin on the under surface. 
"Head rather broad. 
" Antennai long (two thirds the length of the fore wings), nearly straight, composed of rather 
long joints ; terminated by a long, but very slender, scarcely distinct club formed of short 
joints. 
" Labial palpi coiupressed, ascending obliquely to about the height of two thirds of the eye, 
porrected in front nearly to the length of the head, not convergent, scaly. Middle joint 
clothed behind with hairs applied to the face. 
" Thokax oval, very hairy. 
" Fore wings large, oval-triangular. Fore margin very much arched ; apical angle rounded. 
Apical margin about two thirds of the length of the fore margin, entire, slightly convex ; 
inner angle rounded. Inner margin rather longer than the apical, slightly dilated at the 
base in the male. Costal vein extending to about two thirds of the length of the costa. 
Postcostal vein with its first branch arising at about two sevenths of the length of the 
wing ; second branch arising at about three fifths of tho length of the wing ; third and 
fourth arising at short distances beyond the second ; all these' branches free, the fourth 
extending to the tip of the wiug. Upper discocollular vein very short, arising nearly at 
one third of the length of the wing ; middle discocellular equally short, nearly transverse ; 
outer discocellular very long and curved, somewhat like the letter C/J, the extremity reaching 
nearly to the middle of the wing, where it joins the third branch of the median vein at 
a short distance beyond its base, terminating the closed discoidal cell nearly in a point. 
Hind wings broadly ovate. Fore margin scarcely curved. Outer margin rounded ; anal angle 
rounded. The disc above, near the extremity of the thorax, is furiii.shed witli a tuft of 
fine hairs in the male. Precostal vein short, curved towards the body. Costal vein 
extending to about two thirds of the length of the costa. Postcostal vein with its branches 
arising quite close to the base of the wing, the outer branch extending to tho outer angle. 
Discoidal cell very narrow and ojjen. Median vein with its branches wide apart. 
" Fore legs of tho male very small atid brush-like, very woolly. Fore legs of the female longer 
than those of the male, slondcir, soaly. Tarsus not half the length of the tibia ; articula- 
tions indistinct, except when denuded of scales ; obliquely truncate at the tip ; armed with 
very small spines. 
" Four hind legs long, strong, scarcely spined beneath. Tibial spurs minute. 
" Abdomen rather small and slender." ( Westrvood, I. c.) 
Clerome serope. (Plate I. fig. 4, c? .) 
Clerome cerope, Leech, Entomologist, xxiii. p. 31 (1890). 
Male. Drab-brown. Primaries darker towards the outer margin ; a couspicuous tuft of fulvous 
silky hairs on the interior edge of tho median nerve near the base. Under surface brown ; 
primaries paler along tho inner margin, with a triangular vitreous patch below tho median 
