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TRICHOLEPIS, g. n. 
Palpi short and directed dowuwards ; antenute ciliated, rather more strongly in the male 
than the female : wings clothed with fine hairy scales ; fore wing long, narrow, and pointed ; 
cell long and rather narrow ; hind wing rather narrow ; costal and anal margins nearly 
straight ; outer margin rounded. 
Tricholepis erubescens. (Plate CXXXIX. figs. 3, 12.) 
Expanse f inch. 
Male. Legs, antennae, head, thorax, and base of fore wings crimson ; a black inwardly 
oblique autemedial band, the area beyond which is black, the disc very slightly suffused with 
crimson ; a small indistinct black spot at end of cell. Cilia, hind wing, and abdomen black. 
Anal tuft ochreous. 
Female. Differs from the male in having the disc of the outer area of the fore wing and 
the cilia of both wings crimson ; the ochreons anal tuft larger than in the male. 
Tliyrassia aurodisca. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 10.) 
Expanse ^ inch. 
Male. Fore wing purplish black, with three large hyaline spots, one subapical quadrifid, 
one near end of cell, the other bifid below it between the median and submediau nervures, 
and traversed by first median nervule; hind wing golden yellow, with a purple-black spot on 
the middle of the costa, and a border of the same colour, broad at apex, narrow at outer angle : 
bead and thorax black ; collar golden yellow ; abdomen black, except third, fourth, and fifth 
segments, which are golden yelloAv, each with a black spot above. 
Differs from the N. -Indian 2\ subcordata, Walker, in having the whole disc of the hind 
wing golden yellow, instead of a large spot at the inner margin near the base, and a small 
subcostal one towards the apex. 
BRACHARTONA, g. n. 
Venation, antennae, and palpi similar to Artona, "Walk. ; fore wings much shorter and 
broader ; costa moi'e arched. Hind wings more ample, with the outer margin rounded. 
Type B. [Artona) quadrimaculata . 
Brachartona purpurascens. (Plate CXXXIX. fig. 4.) 
Expanse | inch. 
Male. Head, palpi, antennae, legs, and collar golden yellow ; thorax and abdomen purplish 
black, the latter yellow beneath. Fore wing dark purple, with two large triangular golden-yellow 
