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Show 178 SIR G. F. H A M P S O N - R E V I S I O N OF M O T H S [Feb. 21, with hair, the 3rd naked; maxillary palpi filiform ; tibiae of male with the outer spurs minute; abdomen with the anal tuft very large. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from close to angle of cell; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9 for some distance ; 10 also approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. SECT. I. Antennae of male unipunctate for one-third _ length, the basal joint emitting four teeth enclosing a hollow in front like the calyx of a flower. Type. (l)fMEROCTENA TULLALIS Wlk. xviii. 649 ; Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. pi. 172. f. 11. Iodian & Malayan subregions. (2) MEROCTENA STAINTONI Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 392, pi. 13. f. 4. Bulo Laut; Java ; Fiji. fLygropis sirioxantha Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 262. SECT. II. Antennae of male with the basal half serrate and fasciculate, a large tuft of scales on upperside at one-fifth from base ; palpi Avith the 3rd joint short, flattened, rounded, the outer side holloAved out and curled over at tip. (3)fMEROCTENA DICHOCHEOSIALIS, n. sp. (1898, Plate L. fig. 22.) 3 . Orange ; fore tibiae with black band ; abdomen with two conjoined dorsal black spots on subbasal segment and dorsal band on subterminal segment Avith silvery-white posterior edge. Fore wing with black spot at base of costa ; an antemedial black line expanding into a spot on costa ; a discoidal lunule ; the postmedial line represented by an oblique straight line from costa to vein 5, a subterminal spot on vein 4 and small spot below vein 2, and a large spot near base of vein 2. Hiud wing Avith large lunule beyond to cell; a subterminal spot betAveen veins 2 and 4 and an oblique line from near lower angle of cell becoming obsolete before tornus ; both Avings AAoth fine terminal line. Hab. Bali, 2500 feet (Doherty). Exp. 30 m m. Genus 92. THLIPTOCERAS. Thliptoceras SAvinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 274. Prophantis Warr. A. M . N. H . (6) xviii. p. 113 (1896). Palpi porrect, straight, about twice the length of head, the 2nd Fig. 92. Thliptoceras cascale, rf. \. (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) |