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Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
Genus STAUROPUS. 
(PI. V, fig. 4; PI. VI, figs. 1-7.) 
Stauropus German Prod. p. 4 (1811). 
Hmpsn. Moths of India, 1. p. 149. 
Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 307. 
Spuler. Schmett. Eur. 1. p. 93. 
Netria Wlk. Cat. vi. p. 1504 (1 855). 
Type S.fagi. Description made from S. mediata. 
<$, £. Proboscis absent; palpi short, porrect, projecting beyond frons; first 
joint short and with a long tuft of hairs and hair-like scales; second joint about 
half as long, sub-cylindrical; third joint about half of second joint and both 
covered with hairs and hair-like scales; eyes large, rounded, glabrous; antennae 
almost half of costa, bipectin ated for a little over f-rd of shaft and at the tip 
the pectinations get suddenly shorter, in $ about 12 times shaft, in $ about 
8 times shaft; first joint of shaft sub-globular and with a tuft of hairs in front; 
fore tibia of $ with a broad bluntly rounded process, not quite as long as tibia ; 
mid and hind legs with terminal spurs only, pointed into a curved hook and 
covered with hairs ; about half way of the curve of this hook are on each side 
little rounded lobes; inner spur longer than outer; tibiae of fore and hind legs 
densely covered with hairs and some scales; femurs of all legs and tibiae of 
hind legs rather thinly clothed with hairs; tarsal joints of all legs tufted with 
hairs. Fore wing rather broad, sub-triangular; costa nearly straight; apex 
well rounded; termen oblique, rounded; tornus rounded; inner margin some- 
what excurved at middle; 1 b indistinctly forked at base; 1 c faintly indicated, 
especially towards termen; 2 from fth lower median, curved; 3 from well 
below lower angle; 4 from lower angle; 5 from just above middle of discocellu- 
iars, which are erect; lower discocellulai sending a small veiniet into the cell; 
6, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 6 from stalk at about fth of 8 ; 7 from stalk at middle of 8; 
9 from just beyond fth of 8; 10 from beyond middle of origin of 6 and 7; 11 
from upper median at fth 12 parallel to costa. Hind wing triangular, broad; 
costa nearly straight; apex well rounded; termen well rounded, oblique; 
tornus well rounded; inner margin straight; 1 a nearly straight; 1 b forked 
at base, curved ; a trace of 1 c ; 2 from f-rd of lower median ; 3 from well before 
lower angle ; 4 from lower angle ; 5 rather weak, from middle of discocellulars, 
which are almost erect and have each a faint veiniet in the cell ; 6 and 7 on a 
stalk of half 6; 8 running close to upper median till beyond middle of cell, 
but not anastomosing with it, at base even slightly remote, then curved up- 
wards to costa. 
A large number of species were placed by various authors in this genus, 
but all these I had to remove to the genus Desmeocraera, owing to these species 
having four spurs on the hind legs and not two, and also on account of several 
other characters. 
As I have not been able to study the type of this genus, I am not quite 
certain that mediata should be placed here, especially as the different authors 
do not quite agree in every respect as regards the characters of this genus. 
However, mediata cannot be placed in any other genus known to me and as these 
points of difference do not, on the whole, throw this species out, I think it safe 
to leave it here. 
