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N'OCTUIDJE. 
Genus METAPROSPHERA, nov. 
Type, M. modesta, Bull. (Renodes), Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, 
p. 67. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head, moderately scaled 
in front and strongly fringed with hair above towards ex- 
tremity, the 3rd short and thickly scaled in male, longer in 
female ; frons smooth, with pointed tuft of hair above ; 
eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipectinate with long 
branches to near apex ; thorax clothed with hair and scales 
mixed and without crests ; tibiae moderately fringed with 
hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base of dorsum but 
without crests. Fore wing with the costa rather arched 
towards apex which is somewhat produced, the termen 
obliquely curved in male, oblique below vein 4 in female, 
not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from 
just above angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the 
termen oblique to vein 3 where it is produced to a lobe in 
male, the tornus obliquely truncate ; the cell in male very 
short ; veins 2 and 3 from a point well before angle of cell ; 
4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
Avith the cell near base only ; in female the cell about one- 
fourth length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle and 5 from 
just above angle. 
Genus CLAPRONIA, nov. 
Type, C. albicilia. 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
in male curved and smoothly scaled in front and greatly 
dilated and flattened behind, the 3rd minute, with small 
triangular tuft of hair in front ; frons smooth, with ridge of 
hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male bipectinate 
with rather long branches to near apex ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae 
moderately fringed with hair, the hind tibiae of male with the 
medial spurs absent, the 1st joint of tarsus fringed with hair 
above ; abdomen with slight rough hair at base of dorsum 
but without crests. Fore wing Avith the costa rather arched 
towards apex Avhich is somewhat produced, the termen 
evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and “> from near 
angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 
with 8 to form the areole ; 1 1 from cell. Hind Aving with the 
cell about one-third length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 
5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper 
angle ; 8 anastomosing Avith the cell near base only. 
