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4. Terminal segment of palpus with a tuft, at least at base 5 



Terminal segment of palpus without a tuft; forewing with vein 7 to apex. 



Brachmia 



5. Forewing with tufts of raised scales Hypatima 



Forewing without tufts of scales Atasthalistis 



6. Forewing in male with a reflected fringe of scales from anterior half of costa. 



Stegasta 

 Forewing not thus modified 7 



7. Median segment of palpus furrowed beneath, thickened with scales. 



Phthorlmaea 

 Median segment of palpus not furrowed beneath 8 



8. Hindwing with a cubital pecten Acribologa 



Ilindwing without a cubital pecten 9 



9. Median segment of palpus expanded towards apex by dense scales, tufted be- 



neath Brachyaema 



Median segment of palpus not expanded towards apex, smooth . Stomopteryx 



Stegasta Meyrick, 1904 



Stegasta variana Meyrick, 1904 



Figures 472, 622 



Stegasta variana Meyrick, 1904, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 29, 

 p. 314 (d' 9, East Australia); 1906, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 17, p. 

 140 (Ceylon); 1909, Ann. Transvaal Mus., vol. 2, p. 12 (S. Africa); 1911, 

 op. cit., p. 65; 1914, Ent. Mitt., Suppl., vol. 3, p. 50 (Formosa); 1920, in 

 AUuaud and Jeannel, Voyage ... en Afrique Orientale (1911-12), Insectes 

 L6pidoptferes, no. 2, p. 71; 1925, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 184, 

 p. 87, pi. 2, fig. 31; 1935, in Caradja and Meyrick, Materialien Microlepi- 

 dopteren-Fauna . . . , p. 68. — Janse, 1917, Check-List South African Lepid. 

 Het, p. 182. — Fletcher, 1921, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 6, pp. 

 83, 202, pi. 62, figs, la-d; 1932, Imp. Counc. Agric. Res., Sci. Mon., no. 2, p. 

 42. — Corbett and Bates, 1926, Bull. Dept. Agric. Federated Malay States, 

 no. 38, p. 8. — Gaede, 1937, in Bryk, Lepidopterorum Catalogus, pars 79, p. 

 238. 



Distribution: Australia, Ceylon, India, Malayan Peninsula, South 

 Africa. 



Food plants: Cassia tora, C. fistula, C. mimosoides, Jasminum sp. 



Material examined: Luzon, Agoo, La Union. 1.V.1945 (J.G. 

 Franclemont), 1 9 (CUI). Benguet Subprov., Klondyke, 800 ft., 

 11. V. 1912 (A. E. Wileman), 1 9, genit. slide 5777 (BM). Compared 

 with a cf from Java, genit. slide 5776 (LM). 



Phthorimaea Meyrick, 1902 



Phthorimaea heliopa (Lower, 1900) 



Figures 211, 214, 222-223, 624 



Gelechia heliopa Lower, 1900, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. 25, p. 417. 



Gnorimoschema heliopa. — Meyrick, 1904, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



vol. 29, p. 320; 1905, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 16, p. 592.— Maxwell- 



