im.] 213 



Hind-winffs tawnj-brown ; cilia grojisli. 



Abdomen flattened and dilated posteriorly with alternate bands of chestnut- 

 brown and snow-white, margined at the sides, except on the penultimate segments, 

 with chestnut-brown projecting fringes ; the apical segment brown, with a whitish 

 band ; the pattern of the abdomen, which is very distinctly marked, may be de- 

 scribed as consisting of three white and three brown bands, the white ones of about 

 equal width, the brown ones decreasing in width as they become more remote from 

 the thorax ; the first two of these brown bands are more or less interrupted by 

 wliito scales at the sides, but not interrupting the brown marginal fringe. 



Leffs, posterior pair rich ferruginous-brown, with white bands on the tibite and 

 on the tarsi, and a conspicuous white spot in the fringe above the second pair of 

 spurs ; spurs brown above, wliite beneath. 



I£ab. : Pegu, Thandsuug (Karen Hills, 4000 ft., W. Doherfy). 

 Type, ? , Mus. Wlsm. 



PTEROPHORIDjE. 



SOCPICHOEA, Wkr. 



Cat. Lp. Ins., B. M., XXX, 952 (1SG4). 



Type Sochchora donntella, Wkr. 



Antenna; (?) setiform, simple, shorter than half the length of the fore-wing. 



Maxillary palpi obsolete. 



Lahial palpi porrect, smooth ; apical joint more slender and somewhat shorter 

 than the second. 



Head clothed with bifid scales. 



Fore-wings bilobed ; narrow at the base, widened beyond the middle, apical 

 margin oblique and slightly sinuous, anal angle well-defined, apex slightly depressed, 

 falcate in- the appearance of the apical cilia; cleft to less than one-fourth from the 

 middle of the apical margin. Neuration, 12 veins ; 8 and 9 from a common stem ; 

 rest separate ; 2 from near angle of cell. 



Hind-wings with three lobes ; the upper cleft very short, reaching to about one- 

 third from the apical margin, the lower cleft reaching to three-fourths ; upper lobe 

 rounded and spatulato with a tooth of scales about the anal angle ; the second lobe 

 pointed, ensiform, with a tooth of scales at the anal angle ; the third lobe linear, 

 tufted with a tooth of scales near the apex. Neuration, 8 veins ; 5 and 6 short. 



Abdomen somewhat dilated. 



Hind-legs with two pairs of very long spurs ; with short apprcssod scale tufts 

 at the joints. 



According to Mcyrick's tabulation this genus would approach 

 Platyptilia, from which it differs very decidedly in the absence of a 

 projecting tuft in front of the head, as well as the slender palpi, and 

 more especially in the very slender linear third lobe of the hind-wings, 

 which is in strong contrast to that of Platyptilia, and gives at once- 

 the appearance of Oxyptilus. 



