TOLPIODES. 
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large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae smoothly 
scaled ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore 
wing with the costa slightly arched towards apex which is 
rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 
3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 
7 from angle ; 8 and 10 stalked, 9 absent ; 11 from cell. 
Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 
3, 4 stalked ; 5 fully developed from below middle of disco - 
cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 
cell to near middle ; the male typically with the costa fringed 
with rough hair, the submedian fold on upperside with tufts 
of long hah’ above and below it at middle, the median nervure 
on underside at extremity with long oblique tuft of hair and 
the inner margin with fold containing a fringe of long hair. 
Tolpiodes micropis, n. sp. 
o . Head and thorax greyish suffused with red-brown ; 
abdomen white tinged with red-brown, the basal crest black 
at tip ; palpi red-brown, the 3rd joint black, white at tips ; 
pectus, legs and ventral surface of abdomen white tinged 
with red-brown, the fore tibiae and tarsi black-brown ringed 
with white. Fore wing purplish grey suffused with red -brown 
and irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area suffused 
with darker brown ; the costal edge black towards base 
with a white subbasal point and a point before the antemedial 
line which is represented by a small triangular black spot at 
costa, small spots below costa and in cell and a faint sinuous 
red-brown line from cell to inner margin ; an elliptical white 
discoidal spot defined by black, placed on the inner of two 
indistinct waved red-brown medial lines incurved below the 
cell, the outer line with a sinuous black bar from costa ; the 
terminal part of costa with alternating white and blackish 
streaks ; two diffused slightly waved brown subterminal 
lines, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal 
series of small black spots. Hind wing white faintly tinged 
with red-brown. Underside of fore wing greyish suffused 
with red-brown, a brown postmedial line from costa to vein 6 
and some dark and whitish marks on terminal part of costa ; 
hind whig creamy white, the costal half irrorated with red- 
brown, a red-brown discoidal striga and sinuous postmedial 
line from costa to vein 4. 
Hind wing rather browner. 
Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Milne Bay (Meek), 2 1 $ type. 
Exp. 14 millim. 
