608 A. J. T. JANSE. 



Gymnelema vinctus {Wlk.) (Crossed-stick Bagworin). 

 PL XLIII, fig. 10. 



Cossus vinctus Wile., Cat. xxxii, p. 583, 1865. 



Trypamis vinctiis {Wlk.), Kirhj, Cat. i. p. 863. 



Cossus incanescens Butt., A.M.N.H., December, 1875, p. 402. 



Grymnelema vinctus (Wlk.), Hmpsn., A.M.N.H. (8), vol. vi, p. 134. 



Male. — Head and thorax on upper- and underside covered 

 with white and Avhitish hairs mixed with some fuscous 

 (XL VI) hairs ; terminal edge of tegulfe Avith fuscous hairs 

 forming a transverse line over the thorax, which becomes 

 broader in middle ; shaft of antennae white, with short 

 (3 times shaft) branches of a cream (XVI) colour; legs covered 

 Avith fuscous hairs mixed with white ; abdomen at base 

 whitish mixed with fuscous, tenninal two-thirds of abdomen 

 fuscous, hairs on terminal segment whitish, underside with 

 whitish and hair-brown (XLVI) hairs, except last two seg- 

 ments, which have white hairs, lateral hairs on underside 

 fuscous and fuscous-black. 



Fore wing white ; a broad band of drab (XLVI) scales 

 from below upper median to inner margin between sub-basal 

 and antemedial lines ; another oblique band of the same 

 colour, its inner edge from before subterminal at costa to 

 near outer edge of first band at inner margin, its outer edge 

 from subterminal line at costa to postmedial line at inner 

 margin ; the two bands become more or less confluent at 

 below lower median, so as to form a semi-circular light patch 

 between that vein and the inner margin ; fuscous-black 

 patches on costa at sub-basal, antemedial, and postmedial 

 regions ; a number of irregular, broken ti'ansverse lines of 

 fuscous and fuscous-black scales, especially in medial and 

 terminal regions ; a fuscous terminal line ; cilia of fuscous 

 and white scales with a basal line. 



Hind wing drab-grey (XLVI) ; a number of long fuscous 

 hairs on inner marginal area; terminal line and cilia as on 

 upper wing. 



