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Show 1895.] OF THE S0HC3NOBIINJ! AND ORAMBIN.E. 905 Genus MAOROTHECA. Macrotheca, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 545. Palpi porrect, thickly scaled, and extending about the length of head; maxillary palpi well developed and tufted with hair; frons with a slight tuft; antennae of male ciliated; tibiae smoothly scaled. Fore wing rather long and narrow; vein 3 from angle of cell; 4, 5 stalked; 6 from well below upper angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 7 being given off after 9 ; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 absent; 6, 7 from upper angle. Type. *MAOROTHEOA INTERALBICALIS, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 545, pi. 5. f. 12. Mexico. Genus DREPANODIA. Drepanodia, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 616. Palpi porrect, extending about four times length of head, almost straight and thickly scaled; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled; proboscis minute; frons produced to a conical point; antennae of male almost simple. Fore wing with the costa arched at base, then almost straight, the apex falcate ; the outer margin excised below apex and towards anal angle, excurved at middle; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 well separated at origin; 6 from below upper angle; 7, 8, 9,10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wing with the anal angle truncate; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 shortly stalked. Type. *DREPANODIA XEROPHYLLALIS, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 617. Brazil. Genus THYRIDOPHORA. Thyridophora, Warr. P.Z. S. 1888, p. 311. Palpi porrect and smoothly scaled, extending about the length of head, the 3rd joint downcurved; maxillary palpi long and somewhat dilated at extremity ; frons flat and oblique; antennae thickened and flattened ; legs short, the tibiae hairy, with the spurs nearly equal. Fore wing with the apex produced and the outer margin oblique; the cell very long; vein 3 from before angle; 4, 5 well separated at origin; male with a hyaline vesicle beyond upper angle below veins 6, 7, which are stalked. Hind wing with the cell very long; vein 3 from near angle; 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 shortly stalked. Fig. 7. Thyridophora furia, cf. ?• Type. TTHYRIDOPHORA FURIA, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 519, pi. 47. f. 13. Punjab; Sind. f „ fenestrata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 311. |