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Show 1878.] MR. F. MOORE ON THE LITHOSIID^E. 27 top branch from upper angle, second from lower, third from before half length of the cell. Hind wing quadrangular ; two subcostal and two upper median branches from one third beyond the cell, lower median from half its length. Antennae finely pectinated. Palpi small, porrect. Legs slender, naked, middle and hind spurred. Body slender, short. Female. Wings longer, not truncate at apex; fore wing not folded ; veins as in male, excepting that the hind wing has, apparently, only one upper median branch. GAMPOLA FASCIATA, n. sp. (Plate II. fig. 18.) Male. Upperside-fore wing pale brownish ochreous, brown-speckled, the speckles composed of dark stout scales forming a fascia below the cell and across the disk. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuliginous brown; anal tuft slightly ochreous ; palpi brown at tip ; legs slightly brown above. Hind wing and underside paler. Female. Fore wing not brown-speckled, with an indistinct transverse dusky maculated discal band and a small spot at posterior angle. Underside dusky at apex of fore wing. Expanse, 3 |f, 5 lyL inch. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood and Dr. Staudinger. GROUP C. Fore wing with subcostal vein FOVR-branched, median vein TUREF-branched. PELOSIA, Hiibn. Pelosia, Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 165 (1816). Samera, Wallengren, Wien. ent. Mon. vii. p. 146. Male and female. Wings rather short and broad. Fore wing with subcostal and costal veins wide apart; subcostal four-branched; first branch short, oblique, anastomosing with costal but free beyond its end; second arising at some distance before end of the cell, straight, widely separated between first and third; third bifid, at half distance from end of the cell; discocellulars bent inward, lower shortest, upper angled close to subcostal; radial from the angle of upper; two upper median branches from half distance beyond the cell, lower from half before its end. Hind wing-two branches of subcostal at one fourth, and median branches at two thirds bevond the cell. Type, P. muscerda (Lithosia muscerda) of Europe. GROUP D. Fore wing with a plumose lappet-covered sac-like cavity1. BIZONE, Walker. Bizone, Walker, Catal. Lep. B. M. ii. p. 548. BIZONE BELLISSIMA, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 13.) Male. Upperside-fore wing with a transverse basal and two oblique median red bands, a broad outer marginal ochreous-yellow band, and three black spots at end of the cell: hind wing and abdo- 1 Probably a sound-producing apparatus. |