38 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. I!117. 



upper angle. Hindwing with the termen excised below apex ; vein 2 from 

 close to angle of cell ; 3 and 5 strongly stalked, 4 absent ; the discocellulars 

 obsolescent and angled inwards to near base ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anas- 

 tomosing with 8. 



Sect. I. {Aphomia). Forewing of male with the cell very broad and extending 

 almost to termen, veins 3, 4, 5 widely separated and parallel, the discocellulars 

 very indistinct, vein 6 from below upper angle ; a .small glandular swelling at 

 base of costa on underside and the whole cell clothed with silky scales. 



(1) Aphomia sociella. 



Tinea sociella Linn., Syst. Nat. edit. x. p. 534 (1758) Si Rag., Rom. Mem. viii. p. 471 ; Staud., Cat. 



Lep. pal. ii. p. 1 ; Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 413. 

 Tinea colonella Linn., Syst. Nat. edit. x. p. 534 (1758) $ ; Clerck, Icones. pi. 3. ff. 8. 11 ; Hiibn., 



Eur. Schmidt. Tin. ff. 22, 23 ; Dup., Up. Fr. x. pi. 282. f. 6 ; Steph., //(. Brit. Ent. Haust. 



p. 296. 

 Tinea tribunella Sohiff., iVieii Vers. p. 319 (1770). 

 Aphomia sociella ab. rufinella Krul., Rev. Russ. Ent. viii. p. 274 (1909). 



IT. America ; Europe ; Asia Minor ; Syria. 



Sect. II. (Pamlipsu). Forewing of male with the cell shorter and narrower, 

 produced at extremity but not reaching to near termen, veins 3, 4, 5 well separ- 

 ated and parallel, 6 from below upper angle, a large glandular swelling at base 

 of costa on underside extending to near middle of wing and fringed with long 

 hair outwardly, the whole cell clothed with silky andrcconia. 



(2) Aphomia gularis. 



Meliasdblaptes gularis Zell., Hor. Soc. Ent. Rose. xiii. p. 74. pi. 1. f. 26 and pi. 2. f. 27 (1877). 



t Paralipsa modesta Butl., .4. M. N. H. (5). iv. p. 455 (1879) S ; Rag.. Rovi. Mem. viii. p. 474. 



pi. 43. f. 25. 

 t Melissoblaptes tenebrosus Butl.. ///. Hel. B. M. iii. p. 78. pi, 60. f. 1 (1879) ?. 

 Japan ; C. and W. China ; Sikkim ; Bhntan ; Madras. 



(3) * Aphomia spoliatrix. 



Aphomia spoliatrix Christ., Bull. Nat. Mosc. Ivi. p. 59 (1881) ; Rag., Rom. Mem. viii. p. 476. pi. 

 46. f. 14 ; Stand., Cat. Lep. pal. ii. p. 1. 

 E. Siberia. 



(4) * Aphomia decolorella. 



Paralipsa decolorella Hmpsn.. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 474. pi. 53. f. 3 (1001). 

 S'Entrecasteauz Is., Fergusson I. 



(5) f Aphomia ochracea n. sp. 



(J. Pale ochreous sUghtly tinged with brown. Forewing irrorated with a 

 few black scales, the costal and terminal areas slightly tinged with red ; faint 

 dark points at middle and end of cell ; traces of a curved postmedial line ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hindwing ochreous white. 



?. Head, thorax and forewing whitish tinged and irrorated with purplish 

 red ; abdomen and hindwing suffused with br<nvn. 



Dutch TH. Guinea, Jobi 1. (Doherty) ; Louisiades Is., Woodlark I., St. Aignan 

 (Meek), 1 cJ, 1 ? type. E.vp. S 24, ? 26 mill. 



