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93 AMESIA SANGUIFLUA. PLATE III. Fig. 3.

Phalæna sanguiflua, Drury, Exot. Ent., vol. ii. pl. 20, figs. 1, 2. have been induced to re-figure this very singular moth from a specimen in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope, not only because Drury's figures are very inaccurate, especially in the form of the wings and arrangement of the nervures, but because they are incomplete, wanting the head and antennæ, so that it is impossible to obtain an idea of the relations of the insect. This is still, however, a matter of difficult determination, although a certain relationship between it and the two species last described cannot be questioned. But the present species differs from these in its considerably larger size, the singular arched form of the fore wings, and the arrangement of the wing-veins, which, it will be seen, are curiously curved at the apical part of the fore wings, instead of running straight to the tips. In this respect the insect is more nearly related to Campylotes, but it differs from this, and all the allied genera, except Eterusia, in not possessing the single simple vein which runs from the extremity of