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Show 910 MR. G. P. HAMPSON ON THE CLASSIFICATION [Dec. 17, Fig. 15. Brihaspa atrostigmella, cf • {• SECT. I. (Brihaspa). Fore wing with vein 11 becoming coincident with 12. Type. (l)fBRiHASPA ATROSTIGMELLA, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 666, pi. 33. f. 13. Sikhim; Burma. (2)TBRIHASPA BISANGULATA, n. sp. White; fore wing with indistinct interrupted fulvous subbasal band, an oblique fulvous band from costa to discocellulars, where it is met by a V-shaped fulvous mark on outer part of costa, its apex on vein 5, also by a band running from apex to vein 3, then recurved to discocellulars ; a large fuscous patch between lower angle of cell and inner margin. Hind wing with the discal area from before middle to near outer margin occupied by a fuscous patch, becoming fulvous on subapical area. Hab. Sikhim, Bengal (Dudgeon). Exp. 18 mm. (3)TBRIHASPA FRONTALIS, Wlk. xxxiv. 1361. Natal. SECT. II. (Leptosteges). Fore wing with vein 11 anastomosing with 12. (4)TBRIHASPA PULVERULENTA, Warr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 291. Amazons. (5)tBRIHASPA NIGRICOSTELLA, U. Sp. cf. White ; palpi and a stripe on shoulders black. Fore wing with the costal area black to two thirds of wing; a black spot below middle of cell; the disk irrorated with fuscous; an oblique maculate submarginal line from below apex ending in a spot on vein 1. Hab. Castro Parana, Brazil (Jones). Exp. 26 mm. Genus PATISSA. Patissa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 388 (1886). Palpi porrect, clothed with rough hair and extending about the length of head; maxillary palpi dilated with scales ; frons with a slight tuft; antennae of male minutely serrate and ciliated ; legs long and slender. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and the outer margin oblique; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9, 10, which are stalked; 11 becoming coincident with 12. |