(475 ) 



PYRALIDAE. 



Vitessidia gen. nov. 



c?. Palpns vciy long, curved over the head ; second segment the longest, 

 reaehing to apex of collar, vridened apically, heing densely clothed on dorsal side 

 {i.e. nnderside) by somewhat prolonged erect scales, the distal jiortion of the 

 segment resemliling a clothes-hrnsh ; third segment thin, smooth, widening ajiicad, 

 oliliqnely truncate, about one-third the length of the second. Ej'e sparsely hairy. 

 Antenna long, three-fonrths of forewing, ciliated. Tibiae without tufts, almost 

 smoothly scaled. First segment of tarsi very long, almost twice the length of the 

 others together in foretarsus. 



Neuration peculiar : forewing, cross-vein before middle of wing, very deeply 

 incurved, SC and SC^ stalked together, from cell close to angle, SC^ branching 

 off at one-third to apex of wing, anastomosing at once with C, SC^ stalked with 

 SC^ and S(J', the latter being the most distal liranch, R' from the same stalk at 

 one-fourth from cell, R- and B^ on a long stalk, the pale cross-vein standing close 

 behind M' ; hindwing, R' connected at one-third from cell by a short bar with 

 stalk of C.SC^, the bar representing the proximal portion of the branch SC-, this 

 vein being broadly anastomosed with C; cross-vein angnlate, upper one-third 

 situated ajiproximately of middle of wing, oblique lower portion terminating in 

 middle of wing a little beyond W-, R- and R'' on a long stalk. 



Type : V. dicrphana spec. nov. 



39. Vitessidia diapliana spec. nov. 



$. Black, bluish; frons white; underside (= dorsal) of second segment of 

 palpus grey, some scales on frontal side also grey ; jironotum. except a blnc-black 

 middle belt, segments 0, 7 and 8 of abdomen, breast, coxae and underside of femora 

 yellow-chrome. 



Wings, upprrside, black, slightly bluish ; a large space on forewing from near 

 base to fork R-.l{\ expanding between V> and 8M-, a narrow subapical band from 

 SC'-'' to M', and on hindwing a very large area from near base beyond fork R-.R^, 

 rounded distally, sinuous, limited by (! and SRP, transparent but scaled, opalescent 

 in side-view, the veins remaining thinly black ; a minute streak of milky white 

 scales at base of forewing before i'. 



Underside as aliovc, transparent area of hindwing edged witli white proximally 

 near base. 



Length of forewing : 2.") mm. 



One c?. 



CHALCOSIIDAE.* 



4ii. Heteropan alberti spec nov. 



S. Head and thorax above purplish olive, not glossy; antenna metallic purple 



aliove; upperside of abdomen metallic blue, strongly glossy; palpus and forecoxa 



creamy white, breast, underside of abdomen and legs metallic creamy white, slightly 



purplish, glossy ; tiliiae and tarsi somewhat clayish. 



V.'ings, upperside. Forewing greenish black, olivaceous, slightly purplish 



* Piilurvs ericijrlr.1 Swiuhoe, Ann. Mag. N. II. (7). xvi. p. 146. n. 11 (I'.ion) (WooiUark) is the insect 

 which wc (Icsciibcfl .is Ucrpa mriH. the J in .Yor. Zmd. iii. p. 325 (1S'.17), the ^ Ibid. vi. p. 439 

 (1899). Buth sc.ies .ire figured ihlil. viii. t. 11. 6g. B. G. (I'JOl). 



