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Show 610 SIR G. F. HAMPSON ON THE Genus HERDONIA. [June 1, Herdonia, Wlk. xix. 963 (1859). Palpi short and porrect; antennas with short uniseriate branches in male ; tibias nearly smooth. Fore wing with the costa arched at base and towards apex, slightly excised at middle; vein 3 from well before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 from near upper angle ; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 widely separated at origin ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 8 approximated to 7 after end of cell; a forked veinlet in celt. Fig. 6. Herdonia osacesalis, 6*. \. (From Moths Ind. vol. i.) Type. (l)fHERDONiA OSACESALIS, Wlk. xix. 964; Feld. Eeis. Nov. pl. 134. f. 4. China ; N.E. India; Burma. (2)tHERDONiA B O T Y D A N A , Wlk. xxxii. 522. Brazil. Genus EYCNOSOMA, nov. Ealpi with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned, the 3rd long and porrect; antennas thickened and flattened; tibias smoothly scaled. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8 and 9, 10 stalked. H m d wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 stalked; the outer margin excurved at middle. Fig. 7. Pycnosoma anyulata, S • \- Type. tP^CNOSOMA ANGULATA, n. sp. 2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow suffused with rufous; wings golden yellow closely striated with rufous. Fore wing with oblique postmedial line sharply angled below costa, met by an oblique streak from apex and terminating at middle of inner margin. Hind wing with large dark discocellular spot followed |