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Show 680 SIR G. F. HAMPSON ON THE [Julie 1, Genus CYCLOPALPIA, nov. Ealpi thickly scaled, in male curved inwards and downwards and extending just beyond the large frontal tuft, in female curved downwards and extending about twice the length of head; antennae of male serrated ; mid and hind tibias moderately fringed with hair. Fore wing with the costa nearly straight; the apex acute; the outer margin excurved at middle ; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 stalked; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 stalked; 6, 7 shortly stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. Fig. 57. Cyclopalpia violescens, 3 • \ Type. tCYCLOPALPIA VIOLESCENS, n. sp. 3. Head and thorax purple suffused with grey; abdomen purplish. Fore wing purple thickly suffused with grey, leaving the basal area and the area on each side of lower part of postmedial line most purple ; an oblique dark-edged pale antemedial line; a dark discocellular spot; a dark-edged pale postmedial line slightly bent inwards at vein 4. Hind wing pale suffused with red, especially on apical area. Underside purplish, the inner half of hind wing white ; both wings with discocellular lunule; the apical area bright chestnut-red, with a white line on its inner edge. Hab. Sao Paulo (Jones). Exp. 40 m m. Genus G^CTOPERODES. (Ectoperodes, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 612. Palpi rostriform, downcurved, extending about the length of head, the extremity with a tuft of long scales dilated at tips ; frons smooth ; antennae of male minutely ciliated; mid and hind tibiae and first tarsal joints wdth tufts of scales. Fore wing with the costa strongly arched at base, then excised ; the apex acute ; the outer margin oblique towards outer angle; male with a tympanic vesicle at base of costa; a glandular swelling below fringed with long hair, met by a fringe of hair frcn median nervure ; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with the outer margin angled at middle; the lower angle of cell produced; veins 3 and 5 well separated from 4; 6, 7 shortly stalked. lype. * G 2 C T O P E R O D E S RUFITINCTALIS, Eag.Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891,p. 613. Brazil. |