THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 95 



Genus Melissoblaptes. 



Melissoblaptes, Zell., Isis., 1839, p. 180 ; Faralipsa, Butl., A. M 

 N. H., 1879, p. 455. 



Type. — M. hipunctanus. Curt., from Europe. 



Range. — Nearctic and palsearctic regions ; China ; Eastern Hima- 

 layas ; Ceylon ; New Guinea. 



Palpi of male minute, upturned, and tufted with hair ; proboscis 



small ; antennae short, ciliated, 

 the basal joint dilated and tufted 

 with hair. Forewing rather long 

 and narrow, the costa arched ; the 

 apex rounded ; the outer margin 

 Melissoblaptes gularis, 9 y- short ; the discoceUulars an<rled; 



vein G from below upper angle, 

 7-8 stalked from 9 ; 10-11 from cell. Hindwing with vein 2 from 

 angle of cell ; 3 and 5 stalked ; 4 absent ; the discoceUulars angled 

 back, almost to base ; 6-7 stalked ; 7 anastomosing with 8. 9 . With 

 the palpi porrect, down curved, and projecting about the leno-th of 

 head. 



Section I (ParaZ^^psa).— Forewing of male with the cell clothed below 

 with fine close-set scales, the lower angle produced upwards and 

 outwards, veins 3, 4, 5 at intervals ; female with vein 3 from well 

 before angle ; 4-5 from angle. 



41446. Melissoblaptes gularis, Zell., Hor. Ent. Ross xiii 

 p. 72, pi. 1, f. 26 ; Paralipsa tenehrosus, Butl., 111. Het., iii, p. 78, 

 pl.60,/.l. 



$. Grey-brown with a yellowish tinge and strongly irrorated with 

 black. Forewing with an ochreous streak from base on median 

 nervure expanding into a triangular patch towards end of cell and 

 sending three teeth outwards ; a black speck edged with ochreous in 

 cell ; the discocellular stigma oval, black edged with ochreous ; traces 

 of a postmedial ochreous line on costal area ; a marginal series of black 

 points. Hindwing fuscous with a yellowish tinge ; the apical area 

 darker ; a dark marginal line. 9 . Yellowish-brown with a purple 

 tinge ; an obscure antemedial sinuous line defined by pale ochreous • 

 the postmedial line angled outwards at middle ; no spot in cell ; the 

 discocellular stigma very large, black and subtriangular. 

 Habitat , — Japan ; Sikkim. Exp. 30-32 mm. 



