LIBYSTICA. 
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Genus LIBYSTICA, nov. 
Type, L. simplex, Holl. ( Episparis ), Psyche, vii. p. 121, 
pi. iv. f. 11 (1894). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint 
reaching to vertex of head, moderately scaled in front and 
slightly fringed with hair behind towards extremity, the 3rd 
short and thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair 
above ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male with bristles 
and cilia ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and 
without crests ; tibiae fringed with rather long hair, the fore 
coxae and femora fringed with hair ; abdomen with some 
rough hair at base of dorsum but without crests. Fore wing 
with the costa arched towards apex which is somewhat 
produced and acute, the termen typically somewhat excised 
to vein 4 where it is angled, then oblique, not 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 termen typically acutely angled at 
vein 4 ; the cell in female about one-fourth length of wing ; 
in male the lower part of cell about one-fourth length of wing, 
the discocellulars very oblique and obsolescent and the upper 
part of cell very short ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 fully 
developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 
Libystica eucampima, n. sp. 
$• Head and thorax red-brown ; tarsi ringed with white ; 
abdomen red-brown mixed with some whitish. Fore whig 
red -brown slightly tinged with grey ; a slight curved blackish 
subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line slight, blackish, 
excurved below costa and cell and above inner margin ; a 
black point in middle of cell and slight curved discoidal 
striga ; an indistinct waved blackish medial line excurved 
beyond the cell ; postmedial line slight, blackish, waved 
and slightly curved ; a faint waved and curved dark sub- 
terminal line ; a terminal series of dark striae and fine pale 
line at base of cilia. Hind wing red-brown tinged with grey ; 
a dark discoidal point ; an indistinct rather diffused dark 
medial line ; a slightly curved black postmedial fine with the 
diffused dark subterminal fine just beyond it ; a terminal 
series of slight black lunules and fine pale line at base of cilia. 
Underside whitish tinged with red-brown ; fore wing with 
some blackish irroration and striae on costal area before middle 
and blackish striae hi the cell, medial line blackish, oblique to 
vein 7, slightly incurved at discal fold and incurved below 
vein 4, postmedial fine blackish, slightly excurved from below 
