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moderately scaled below and fringed with hair above except 
at base, the 3rd rather short and thickly scaled ; frons smooth, 
with pointed tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae 
of male with slight bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed with 
hair and scales mixed and without crests ; tibiae slightly 
fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base 
of dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with the apex 
rounded, the termen evenly curved, 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. Hind 
wing with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from 
angle ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from 
upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Genus RHESALIDES, nov. 
r rype, R. admiraltensis. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique, 
extending about twice the length of head, with the hair at 
extremity produced to a point and angled with hair above at 
middle, the 3rd obliquely upturned, short and with slight 
tuft of hair in front ; frons smooth, with ridge of hair above ; 
eyes large, round ; antennae of male somewhat laminate and 
minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 
and without crests ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen 
smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex 
somewhat produced, the termen evenly curved and not 
crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 0 from 
upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 
areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind wing with the termen very 
slightly excised at discal fold ; the cell about one-third 
length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 
from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only. 
Rhesalides admiraltensis, n. sp. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white tinged 
with red-brown ; antennae tinged with blackish ; palpi 
rufous, the 2nd joint above and the 3rd joint ochreous white ; 
legs suffused with red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; 
ventral surface of abdomen creamy white irrorated with 
red-brown. Fore wing ochreous white tinged with red- 
brown and irrorated and striated with dark brown ; a sub- 
basal black point on costa ; antemedial line indistinct, brown, 
with a black point at costa, excurved below costa and above 
inner margin ; orbicular and reniform red-brown defined by 
white and their centres by black, small, the former round ; 
the outer half of medial area more strongly tinged with red- 
