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Genus T AENIOPTERYX nov. 
(PL VIII, figs. 14-19.) 
Type cinerea spec. nov. 
<$, $. Proboscis present; frons rounded; palpi obliquely upturned, 
moderate; second joint about two times first joint; third joint somewhat 
porrect, small, covered with appressed scales at sides and scales and hairs at 
the front; eyes large, rounded, naked; antennae less than half of costa, bipec- 
tinated in both sexes for nearly frd, pectination in £ about three times shaft, 
in $ two times shaft; first joint of shaft sub-globular and with a tuft of 
hairs; femora rather thinly covered with long hairs; tibiae with moderate 
hairs on outer side ; fore tibia with a process shorter than the tibia ; mid tibia 
with two, hind tibia with four spurs, which are moderate in length and sharply 
pointed, outer spur about f th of inner spur and all covered with hair-like scales ; 
tarsi covered with scales and spines. Fore wing narrow; costa well rounded; 
apex rounded ; termen very oblique, somewhat rounded between veins 2 and 5 ; 
tornus well rounded; inner margin straight; 1 b forked at base; 2 from lower 
median at beyond f th ; 3 from f rd 2 to 4 ; 4 from lower angle ; 5 from well above 
middle of discocellulars, which are erect and straight; 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked 
and from upper angle ; 6 from ^rd whole length of 8 ; 7 from f rd of 8 ; 9 from 
^|th of 8 ; 10 from middle of origin of 6 and 7; 11 from upper median at fth; 
12 parallel to costa. Hind wing triangular; costa straight; apex rounded; 
termen very oblique, somewhat roundly lobed at 3 and 4 and incurved at vein 
2 ; tornus well rounded ; inner margin roundly lobed at 1 a ; 1 a and 1 b straight; 
2 from f rd lower median ; 3 and 4 from lower angle and on a stalk of |rd of 4 ; 
5 absent ; discocellulars faint, erect, curved ; 6 and 7 from upper angle, stalked 
for over ^rd of 7; 8 from upper median at middle, then oblique to apex. Abdo- 
men with a tuft of hair at base. This genus is close to Stenostaura, from which 
it differs in the position of veins 3 and 4 of fore wings, position and structure 
of the larger palpi and the presence of four spurs on the hind legs. 
Taeniopteryx Cinerea spec. nov. 
(PI. XIV, fig. 9; PI. VIII, figs. 14-19.) 
(J, $. Palpi black, irrorated with neutral grey (lii) at the sides; head and 
tegulae of with cream-buff (xxx) and burnt sienna (ii) hairs and scales; 
remainder of thorax above and on under side, and legs neutral grey; tibiae and 
tarsi ringed with fuscous-black, tipped with white ; fore wing at base and 
beyond medial line thickly irrorated with black and fuscous-black; remainder 
of fore wing between outer sub-basal and inner antemedial line, more or less 
irrorated with burnt sienna, so as to form a brownish band; sub-basal line 
double, black, diffused, curved and somewhat angled inwardly at lower 
median; antemedial line double, outer line most defined, curved and somewhat 
angled inwardly at upper median (in the $ the outer sub-basal and inner 
antemedial lines are brownish); medial line indistinct; a buff-yellow (iv) 
elongated stigma at discocellulars, centred with burnt sienna; in $ and in $ 
cotype the yellow is very faint; postmedial line double, faint and indistinct, 
often disappearing; a fine distinct black line, irrorated with brown in the $, 
from apex to tornus ; some black scales on veins beyond the postmedial line ; 
cilia deep neutral grey (liii) , a little lighter at base. Hind wing white; some 
fuscous irroration along costa and a narrow terminal shading of fuscous; 
cilia white, with a fuscous line at middle. 
