PARADOXECIA; SIMILIPEPSIS; TYRICTACA; NEOTINTHIA. By M. Gaede. 
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D. igniflua Lucas. Thorax fiery red, black laterally and behind. Abdomen black, the segmental ignip.ua. 
margins yellowish-white, broadest in the middle. Forewing fiery red with a slight blue gloss. A basal spot 
and the veins black. A black macular band from the centre of the costal margin obliquely outwards, enclosing 
a fiery red subapical spot. Hindwing hyaline, distal margin fiery red with black scales. 15 mm. Brisbane. 
37. Genus : Paradoxecia Hmps. 
Proboscis well developed. Palpi scarcely reaching to frons. Antennae of $ with long scales in the 
middle third, thinner towards the apex, ciliated, without an apical pencil. Legs as in Micrecia. Forewing: 
veins 2 and 3 stalked, the others separated, 7 and 8 from the same base. Hinclwing: vein 5 absent, 
veins 6 and 7 from the upper cell-angle. 
P. gravis Whi . Blackish with a green and violet reflection. Thorax glossy, with 2 blackish stripes, gravis. 
one golden yellow spot each laterally in front. Legs dark, spurs very long. The 2nd to 6th abdominal 
segments margined with golden yellow. Forewing violet, hindwing hyaline, glossy, veins violet, yellowish 
at the base. Central China. 
P. croconeura Meyr. Body bluish-black. Collar white laterally, tegulae yellowish at the apices. The croconeura. 
1st and 3rd abdominal segments with a narrow yellow ring. Beneath yellow spots on the 1st and 2nd segments, 
the others with yellow rings. Forewing hyaline, with black margins. Veins and inner margin as well as 
cross-vein with yellow scales. Hindwing hyaline, veins yellow, margin black. <$ 32 mm. Sikkim. 
38. Genus: Sfmilipepsis Le Cerf. 
Two thirds of the <$ antennae tufted. Palpi short, only the third joint somewhat longer. Proboscis 
well developed, abdomen wasp-like. Forewing: vein 1 absent, 8 + 6 + 7 stalked, 10 absent. Hindwing: veins 
3 and 4 from the same base. Legs long and thin, with long spurs Type: violacea Le Cerf from Africa. 
S. lasiocera Hmps. Body black with a bluish-violet gloss. Second abdominal segment with a white lasiocera. 
marginal line, beneath white from the base to beyond this place. Hind tibiae with a few thorny hairs at 
the beginning and end, tarsi mostly white. Wings hyaline. Forewing black at the costal margin, with a 
violet gloss, broader at the apex. Veins and margins of hindwing narrow black. 18 mm. Assam, Siam. 
39. Genus: Tyrictaca (Wkr.) Meyr. 
Proboscis present^ antennae filiform, palpi short. Forewing without veins 3 and 7. Hindwing 
without vein 5; 6 very near to 7 at the base. Middle tibiae and basal joints of tarsi with a dense scale- 
tuft. Hind tibiae with a crest of scales on the spurs. Type: apicalis Wkr. 
T. antiphanopa Meyr. Body bluish-black, the last segment yellow above. Legs blackish with brown antiphano- 
and white hair. Forewing ochreous in the centre of the wing, hyaline blue and yellowish between the veins. P a 
Veins black. Hindwing diaphanous hyaline yellow, with a violet reflection. Veins and margins black. $ 
18 mm. Perak. 
T. apicalis Wkr differs in a triangular black spot behind the middle of the costal margin on the apicalis. 
forewing. Metallic bluish-black. Legs violet. Wings semi-diaphanous, iridescent, with golden yellow scales. 
Borneo. 
40, Genus: l^eotinthia Hmps. 
Proboscis well developed. Palpi moderately long, broadly scaled at the base. Antennae of $ ciliated 
long, thinner at the ends, without a hair-pencil there. Anal tuft formed of strong lateral tufts. Anterior 
tibiae with thorny hairs at the ends. Hind tibiae in the middle and at the end with thorny hairs and broad 
scales. Tarsi with a long scale-tuft on the first joint above, and a crest of scales on the other segments. 
Forewing: vein 3 absent, the others from the cell, 7—9 from the same base. Hind wing: vein 5 absent, 
4 from the lower cell-angle, 6 and 7 from the upper angle. 
N. semihyalina Hmps. Body blackish-brown, anal tuft orange. Anterior tibiae and tarsi somewhat semihya- 
red-brown. Hind tibiae with x-ed-brown thorny hairs, the scale-tuft on the tarsi yellow. Wings hyaline, 1 ™ 
veins and margins blackish-brown. Cross-vein of forewing broad; coppery in, below and behind the cell, 
d 20 mm. Burma. 
