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Show 1899.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTIN.E. 215 cell between veins 8 and 4 ; an oblique sinuous line of similar scales from vein 5 near termen to middle of inner margin, expanding into a diffused patch below the cell; cilia dark at base. Hind wing yellowish AA hite ; termen more ochreous. Hab. Bathurst, Gambia (Carter). Exp. 24 m m. Genus 118. ANTIGASTRA. Antigastra Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 419. Balpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales; frons flat and oblique; antennae nearly as long as the fore wing and minutely ciliated ; legs long; fore femora and tibiae of male fringed with long hair, the outer spurs half the length of inner. Fore wing Avith the costa arched towards apex, which is acute and produced ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9. Hind Aving with the cell half the length of wing; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. Fig. 118. Antigastra catalaunalis, 3- b (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) Type. (1) ANTIGASTRA CITALAUNALIS Dup. Lep. Fr. viii. p. 330, pi. 232. f. 8. Europe ; Syria ; Aden ; E. & W . Africa ; India. Botys venosalis Wlk. xxxiv. 140. Ceylon ; Burma ; Mexico. (2)fANTIGASTRA MORYSALIS Wlk. xviii. 641. Natal. fZebronia cranealis AVlk. xix. 970. Auctorum. Antigastra cinnamomalis Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 297. Madagascar. Genus 119. LIOPASIA. Liopasia Moschl. Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxxi. p. 426 (1881). Terastiodes Warr. A. M . N. H . (6) ix. p. 298 (1892). Dichotis Warr. A. M . N. H . (6) ix. p. 392. Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; maxillary palpi strongly dilated Avith scales; frons oblique ; antennae of male slightly ciliated; build stout; tibiae smoothly scaled, the outer spurs less than half the length of inner. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rectangular; the outer margin |