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Show 276 SIR G. F. HAMPSON REVISION OF MOTHS [Feb. 21, conical prominence; antennae of male ciliated; tibiae with the outer spurs half the length of inner. Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9 ; 10 well separated. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. Type. (1) THELCTERIA PUPULA Hiibn. Zutr. i. 24. 164, ff. 327, 328. U.S.A.; Brazil. (2N)tTHELCTERiA OCTONALIS Zell. A7erh. z.-b. Ver. Wien, 1873, p. 211, pl. 3. f. 7. U.S.A. tBotys sexmaculalis Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 98. (3)fTHELCTERIA DICHOCROSIALIS, n. sp. 2 . Orange; fore tibiae with black band; abdomen with paired dorsal black spots on 1st aud 4th segments, the terminal segment black. Fore wing with black spot at base of inner margin ; an oblique black antemedial line ; a postmedial straight line from costa to vein 5 ; a spot below middle of vein 2, a speck below it above inner margin and one beyond it above vein 1 ; subterminal spots above veins 4 and 7. Hind wing with large spot beyond the cell; a curved bar between vein 2 and tornus, and subterminal spots above veins 2 and 6. Hab. Arjuno, Java (Doherty). Exp. 24 mm. Genus 152. CORNIFRONS. Cornifrons, Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 384. Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint moderately scaled, the 3rd prominent ; maxillary palpi long and slightly dilated at extremity; frons with long corneous process with oblique vertical edge ; antennae ciliated; tibiae with the outer spurs tAVO-thirds length of inner. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell: 4, 5 from angle; 7 straight and Avell separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. Fig. 152. Cornifrons ulceratalis, 3- Type. (I) CORNIFRONS ULCERATALIS Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1858, p. 147, pl. 4. f. 1. Algeria; Syria; Persia. |