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NOCTITIDiE. 
ridge of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 
somewhat laminate and with slight bristles and cilia ; thorax 
clothed almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with 
oblique crest, the metathorax with large spreading crest ; 
fore tibiae slightly fringed with hair, the mid and hind tibiae 
with tufts of hah 1 at the spurs ; abdomen with dorsal crest 
at base only and lateral tufts of scales except towards base. 
Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved 
and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 
6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 
a short areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half 
the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed 
from above angle ; 6, 7 from Tipper angle ; 8 anastomosing 
with the cell near base only. 
Genus THORACOLOPHOTOS. 
Type. 
Thoracolophotos, B.-Bkr. Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 261 (1906) . .. elceikei , B.-Bkr. 
Thoracolophotos albilimitata, n. sp. 
<$. Head and thorax grey tinged with red-brown, the 
thorax irrorated with black-brown, the thoracic crest dark 
brown behind ; the frons with white patch ; pectus whitish ; 
tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral 
surface white at base, then whitish irrorated with brown. 
Fore wing whitish tinged with rufous and irrorated with 
raised black-tipped white scales ; an oblique triangular 
patch of deep red-brown suffusion overlaying bluish white 
from medial part of costa to below vein 3 beyond the cell, 
then diffused to termen, its inner edge defined by white 
except towards costa and the area beyond it tinged with 
bluish to the subterminal line ; a subbasal black striga in 
the cell and minute black spot in middle of cell ; two waved 
rufous antemedial lines, two similar medial lines rather 
bent inwards below the cell, and two similar postmedial 
lines, the last retracted at vein 3 to lower angle of cell then 
oblique to inner margin and defined on outer side by white ; 
an indistinct waved rufous subterminal line excurved at 
veins 7 and 6, then with slight dark marks in the interspaces ; 
a series of black points before termen ; cilia red -brown. 
Hind wing red-brown, the cilia whitish at tips towards tornus. 
Underside of fore wing red-brown, the costal and terminal 
areas whitish tinged with red-brown, the former irrorated 
with black-brown ; hind wing pale red-brown, tin 1 costal 
area whitish irrorated with dark brown, a series of black 
points just before termen from apex to below vein 4. 
Hab. Borneo, Kuching ( Shelford ), 1 type. Exp. 4G 
millim. 
