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SIR GEORGE HAMPSON ON THE 



(61) *Hypsotropa BIPARTELLA. 



Peoria bipartella Rag. 1ST. Am. Phyc. p. 19 (1887) ; id. Rom. 

 Mem. viii. p. 386, pi. 40. f. 33 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 439. 

 U.S.A., N. Carolina. 



Auctorum. 



Peoria albidella Hulst, Can. Ent. xxxiii. p. 175 (1900); Dyar, 



Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 439 U.S.A., California. 



Hypsotropha laropis Turner, Pr. R. Soc. Queensl. xxiv. p. 173 



(1913) Queensland. 



,, neurica Turner, Pr. R. Soc. Queensl. xxiv. p. 113 



(1913) N. Australia, 



,, castella Pag. Zoologica, xxix. p. 163 (1900). 



Bismarck Arch. 



Genus Raphimetopus, nov. 

 Type, R. spinifrontella. 



Proboscis aborted and minute ; palpi downcurved, extending 

 about three times length of head and thickly scaled ; maxillary 

 palpi minute and filiform ; frons with long flattened corneous 

 plate, somewhat trifid in front and produced to short lateral 

 processes, a corneous plate below the frons; antennas of male 

 laminate. Fore wing narrow, the apex rounded, the termen 

 obliquely curved ; vein 2 from close to angle of cell ; 4 absent ; 

 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 8, 9 stalked ; 

 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing with vein 2 from just before angle 

 of cell ; 3 and 5 stalked, 4 absent ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 closely 

 approximated to or anastomosing with 7. 



(1) Raphimetopus spinifroxtella. 



Anerastia spinifrontella Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 48 (1888) ; id. 

 Rom. Mem. viii. p. 399, pi. 40. f. 2 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 56. 



Bombay, Sind. 



(2) Raphimetopus ablutella. 



Anerastia ablutella Zell. Isis, 1839, p. 17; Herr.-SchaiF. Eur. 

 Schmett. iv. p. 109, Tin. f. 89 ; Rag. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 403 ; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 56 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. ii. p. 12. 



f Anerastia stigmatella Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 49 (1888) ; id. Rom. 

 Mem. viii. p. 403, pi. 40. f. 4. 



Anerastia bimaculata Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 49 (1888) ; id. Rom. 

 Mem. viii. p. 404, pi. 40. f. 5 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 56. 



Anerastia majorella Roths. Nov. Zool. xx. p. 138 (1913). 



Spain ; Sicily ; Algeria ; N. Nigeria ; Congo, Egypt ; Da- 

 maraland; Transvaal; Orange R. Colony; Aden; Asia Minor;* 

 Persia ; W. Turkestan ; J apan ; Kashmir ; Punjab ; Madras. 



