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Show 206 SIR G. F. HAMPSON REVISION OF MOTHS [Feb. 21, maxillary palpi filiform; frons with a rounded prominence; aniennae of fern ale almost simple; legs long and slender. Fore wing Avith the costa arched towards apex, which is produced and acute ; the outer margin excised beloAV apex, then excurved ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 7 straight and well separated from 8. 9, to which 10 is closely approximated. Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 approximated for some distance; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. Fig. 112. Ehectosomia argentipunctalis, 3 • h Type. (1)*EHECTOSOMIA MULTIFARIALIS Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 414, pi. 15. f. 7. Mexico; Costa Eica ; Venezuela. (2)*EHECTOSOMIA ARGENTIPUNCTALIS Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 264, pi. 62. ff. 28, 29. Mexico ; Guatemala. Genus 113. LOXONEPTERA. Loxoneptera Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 405 (1896). Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair; maxillary palpi filiform; frons produced to a flattened plate with rounded edge; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; tibiae Avith the outer spurs minute; mid tibiae of male dilated with a fold containing a tuft of long hair; abdomen of male with very large Fig. 113. Loxoneptera carnealis, 3 • r- (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) paired lateral tufts from just beyond middle. Fore wing of with fringe of long hair on base of inner margin, which is excised towards outer angle and bears a curved tuft of hair ; vein 3 before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9, to which 10 also is approximated. Hind wing of male with |