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Show 222 SIR G. F. HAMPSON-REVISION OF MOTHS [Feb. 21, and becoming bright red at costa; a marginal white line emitting a curved mark below the apical red patch. Hind wing pearly white; the outer area brown and fuscous, almost wholly suffused with silvery purple, and with its medial part defined by a black line on inner side; a marginal white line ; cilia of both wings pale brown, with silvery reflections. Hab. Kikuya, German E. Africa (Ansorge); Sierra Leone (Clements). Exp. 24 m m . Type in B.M. (7) NOORDA NIGROPUNCTALIS, n. sp. 3 . Yellowish Avhite ; palpi, sides of head, and shoulders brown ; anal tuft fuscous. Fore wing with the costa reddish brown ; tAvo black points in cell, one at each angle and one on middle of inner margin; terminal area purplish fuscous, with minutely waved black line on its inner edge, bent outwards at vein 3. Hind wing with the apical area purple-fuscous, with minutely waved black line on its inner edge. Hab. Perak; Gunong Ijan, Malay States. Exp. 18 mm. Types in Coll. Bothschild and B.M. Genus 127. DAUSARA. Dausara Wlk. xvii. 507 (1859). Palpi porrect. rather long, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint bidden; maxillary palpi with a long sharp tuft from extremity; frons flattened and oblique ; antennae of male much thickened and flattened; tibiae Avith the outer spurs about tAvo-thirds length of inner. Fore Aving with the inner margin lobed at middle; veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin; 7 curved and closely approximated to 8, 9, to which 10 also is approximated. Hind wing with the cell short; veins 3, 4, 5 well separated at origin; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing slightly with 8. Fig. 127. Dausara talliusalis, 3. ]. (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) SECT. I. Fore Aving of male with the median nervure bent upwards; a large tuft of scales on underside below its basal half, and a smaller tuft in middle of cell. Type. (1) DAUSARA TALLIUSALIS Wlk. xvii. 507. Assam ; Burma ; Andamans ; Borneo. fGlyphodes marginalis Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 618, pi. 60. f. 15. |