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NOC'J’UIDJi. 
below, the 3rd short and thickly scaled ; frons with small 
rounded prominence covered by a tuft of hair with ridge of hair 
above ; eyes large, round, antennae with large tuft of hair on 
basal joint, in male bipectinate with short branches, the apical 
part serrate, in female somewhat laminate ; thorax clothed with 
hair and hair-like scales, the whole of dorsum covered by a very 
large spreading crest ; tibiae fringed with rather long hair ; 
abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the 
apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; 
veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 
9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 
Hing wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 
4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from 
upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus MELANEPHIA. now 
Type, M. nigrescens, Wllgrn. ( Anophia ), Anteckn. i. Zool. 
1. p. 64 (1856). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to about vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 
3rd moderate and thickly scaled ; frons with small rounded 
prominence ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipectinate 
with short branches to near apex ; thorax clothed almost 
entirely with scales, the metathorax with depressed crest ; 
tibiae fringed with rather long hair ; abdomen with dorsal 
crest at base only. Fore wing Avith the apex rounded, the 
termen evenly cur\ r ed and crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 
near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomos- 
ing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 
the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 
fully developed from abo\ r e angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Melanephia metarhabdota, n. sp. 
$. Head and thorax blackish mixed with brown and white ; 
pectus white ; abdomen white dorsally, slightly irrorated with 
brown, the crest at base darker. Fore wing black mixed with 
brown and leaden grey ; an oblique subbasal black striga from 
costa and white spot below the cell ; antemedial line black, 
oblique to submedian fold where there is a short streak 
beyond it, strongly angled inwards at vein 1 ; an indistinct 
curved blackish medial line ; reniform faintly defined by some 
whitish scales, small ; a small rather elongate black annulus 
filled in with ochreous brown below end of cell ; postmedial 
line black, oblique and sinuous to vein 4, dentate outwards at 
