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straight, shorter than second joint, which is slightly curved and about two 
times third joint in length; third joint short, somewhat oval, covered with 
some scales, mixed with hairs here and there; antennae about half of costa, 
bipectin ate till tip; branches about three times shaft and with fine cilia in front; 
thorax with long hairs ; abdomen with short hairs and without crests ; femora 
below and tibiae outwardly fringed with long hairs; tarsal joints with short 
stiff hairs, mixed with spines on inner side; process of fore tibia nearly as long 
as process, somewhat twisted, directed outwardly and with a hollow in the tibia 
below it; mid tibia with two, hind tibia with four spurs, of which the inner spurs 
are longer than the outer, all rather sharply pointed and covered with hairs. 
Fore wing sub-triangular; costa curved towards apex, which is rounded; 
outer margin somewhat oblique, curved between veins 2 to 7, very slightly 
sinuated; tornus rounded; inner margin straight; 1 b somewhat curved, 
probably not forked at base ; 2 from before f rd lower median ; 3 from beyond 
half 2 to 4; 4 from lower angle; 5 from middle of discocellulars which are 
somewhat oblique inwardly and curved; 6 from near upper angle; stalk of 
7, 8, 9 from upper angle; 7 from stalk at before half of 8; 9 from 8 at about frd; 
10 from upper median beyond half origin 11 and upper angle; 11 from upper 
median at fth; 12 parallel to costa. Hind wing broad, triangular; costa some- 
what incurved ; apex well rounded ; outer margin oblique, somewhat hollowed 
out at 3 to 6 ; tornus very much rounded ; inner margin well rounded at 1 a; 
1 a and 1 b somewhat curved ; a trace of 1 c ; 2 from lower median at beyond 
half; 3 from near and 4 from lower angle; 5 from middle of discocellulars which 
are outwardly oblique and nearly straight ; 6 and 7 on a stalk of about |rd of 7 ; 
8 upcurved at base, then downcurved to upper median and approximating but 
not touching it, then straight to apex. 
Hypophiala Melanogramma spec. nov. 
(PI. XIV, fig. 3.) 
Fore wing and hind wing pure white; fore wing with the costa edged 
with pale orange-yellow (iii) ; very fine black lines on part of vein 12, on upper 
median, discocellulars, lower median, vein 1 b, veins 2 to 9, and a fine black 
line in middle of cell from base to discocellulars and another from near base 
to outer margin on plica! fold ; cilia white ; hind wing with all veins covered with 
fuscous (xlvi) scales ; the whole wing, except near base and costa and at terminal 
area irrorated with fuscous ; cilia white ; under side of both wings white ; costa 
of fore wing pale orange-yellow ; greater part of fore wing thickly irrorated with 
fuscous, except near base, along inner margin, tornus, termen and apical part 
of costa; all veins covered with fuscous; cilia white. Hind wing remains pure 
white except for the fuscous lines on veins and plical fold; hairs on head and 
thorax long, shaggy, and tinged with lichen-green (xxxiii) ; on under side white 
hairs; hairs of palpi and tuft of antennae pale orange-yellow; long hairs on 
femurs and tibiae white, slightly tinged with lichen-green ; short hairs on tibiae 
and tarsi pale orange-yellow; tarsal joints broadly ringed with black; antennae 
light orange-yellow, some segments edged with xanthine-orange (iii) to argus- 
brown (iii) ; abdomen on under side white, tinged with lichen-green. 
Exp. 48 mm. 
Hab. Salisbury, 4. 12. T5. One specimen (the type) in coll. Janse, kindly 
presented by Father O’Neil, who has another specimen in his collection. 
This species looks at first sight very much like a Striphnopterygid, from 
which it differs however entirely in structure. This genus comes evidently 
close to Phyllaliodes and may be a development of it. 
