OBROATIS. — TRICHOBLEMMA. 
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rather diffused dark brown medial line ; postmedial line 
indistinct, brown, crenulate, with a series of black points on its 
inner side at the veins. Underside of fore wing pale grey 
irrorated with black-brown and tinged with red-brown except 
on inner area, the cell and area below and beyond its extremity 
and the veins of terminal area tinged with scarlet, a minute 
black spot in middle of cell and black discoidal striga with 
minute white spot on its outer side, postmedial line blackish, 
excurved below costa then with series of black points before it, 
oblique below vein 4, a subterminal series of black points 
slightly defined on outer side by white in the interspaces ; 
hind wing whitish tinged with red-brown and irrorated with 
black-brown, a white discoidal spot with black point in centre, 
an oblique rather diffused brown medial line, a curved slightly 
crenulate black-brown postmedial line with series of black 
points before it on the veins. 
Hcib. Brazil, Amazons, R. Jutahi, Boaventura (Trail), 
2 U, R, Jurua, Gaveao (Trail), 1 ; Peru, Yahuarmayo, 1 $ 
type. Exp. 48 millim. 
Genus MALAGONIA, nov. 
Tvpe, M. aci/pera, Hmpsn. ( Talapa ), J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 
Soc. xiv. p. 217 (1902). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint reaching to well above vertex of head, moderately 
scaled in front and fringed with hair behind except at base, 
the 3rd long, thickly scaled and somewhat acuminate at tip , 
frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round , 
antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales 
mixed, the prothorax with oblique flattened crest , tibiae 
moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough 
hair at base of dorsum but without crests. Fore wing with 
the costa somewhat arched to apex which is produced and 
falcate, the termen excised to vein 4 where it is produced to a 
point, then oblique, not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before 
angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from just below upper 
angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 
from cell. Hind wing with the tornus obliquely truncate ; 
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. 
Genus TRICHOBLEMMA, nov. 
Type, T. lophophora, Hmpsn. (Capnocles), Moths Ind. hi. 
p. 22 (1895). . 1 , , , 
Proboscis fully developed. ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to rather above vertex of head, moderately scaled in 
