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Show 904 MR. G. F. HAMPSON ON THE CLASSIFICATION [Dec. 17, 10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle cell; 4, 5 shortly stalked; 6, 7 from upper angle. Fig. 5. Acropentias aureus, cf. \ Type. TACROPENTIAS AUREUS, Butl. A. M . N. H. 1878, i. p. 402. E. Siberia; Japan. fMarimatha straminea, Butl. 111. Het. iii. p. 79, pi. 58. f. 2. Sparagmia obtusalis, Christ. Bull. Mosc. lvi. 1881, p. 26. Genus BANEPA. Banepa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 204 (1887). Palpi with the 2nd joint long, porrect, and clothed with hair, the 3rd upturned and long; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled ; proboscis minute; antennae of male bipectinate; legs smoothly scaled, the spurs long. Fore wing with the costa arched at base, then straight; the apex produced ; the outer margin excised from apex to vein 5, where it is excurved, then oblique to outer angle ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 on a long stalk. Fig. 6. Banepa atkinsoni, cf. Type. JBANEPA ATKINSONI, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 204. Sikhim. Genus AMESTRIA. Amestria, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 545. Palpi porrect, thickly scaled, and reaching just beyond frons, which is rounded; maxillary palpi thickly scaled; antennae of male ciliated; tibiae smooth. Fore wing rather 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 before 9; 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell; 4 absent; 6, 7 from upper angle. Type. *AMESTRIA OCULIFERALIS, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 546, pi. 5. f. 10. U.S.A. |