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Show 214 SIR G. F. HAMPSON-REVISION OF MOTHS [Feb. 21, (lO)fDlASEMIA ERUBESCENS, n. Sp. $ . Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown. Fore Aving yellow, irrorated with rufous scales, most thickly on costal and outer areas ; an indistinct dark sinuous antemedial line; a leaden-coloured annulus in cell; a postmedial slightly curved leaden band with black edges, not reaching costa; a dark point on costa towards apex; a minutely waved subterminal leaden and black line, almost obsolete except betAveen veins 7 and 3. Hind Aving whitish, with dark discoidal point; traces of a medial line on inner area ; an obscure postmedial line excurved between veins 5 and 2, the area beyond it suffused with rufous ; both wings with some terminal dark points. Hab. Mexico, Orizaba, Jalapa (Schaus). Exp. 18 m m. Auctorum. Diasemia inabsconsalis Moschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xvi Genus 117. LEPIDONEURA. . p. 305. Porto Eico. Palpi porrect, doAvncurved, and about twice the length of head ; the 3rd joint long; maxillary palpi dilated Avith scales ; frons flat aud oblique ; antennae nearly as long as fore wing, and almost simple ; legs long and slender; tibiae slightly fringed Avith hair, the outer spurs about half the length of inner; male with a large downwardly directed tuft of flattened hair from near origin of fore wing ; abdomen long and slender. Fore wing Avith the costa highly arched towards apex, Avhich is somewhat acute; vein 3 from angle of cell; 4, 5 someAvhat approximated for a short distance ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9, to which 10 also is approximated. Hind Aving AArith the cell about half the length of wing; vein 3 from angle; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing Avith 8. Fig. 117. Lepidoneura lonyipalpis, 3 • (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) Type. (l)tLEPIDONEURA LONGIPALPIS Swinh. A. M . N. H . (6) xiv. p. 208. Assam. (2)fLEPIDONEURA AFRICALIS, n. Sp. 2 . Ochreous; abdomen Avith traces of fuscous dorsal bands. Fore wing Avhitish, Avith diffused ochreous-brown suffusion on marginal areas; a diffused oblique patch of long dark scales beyond the |