PYRALID^. 309 



PESSOCOSMA PERITALIS. 



Lepyrodcs PeritaUs, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xvii. p. 466 (1859). 



Bvowuish-ochreous : forevriiig with three inwardly-oblique vitreous-white inter- 

 sected bands, similarly disposed to those in Sameodes Pipleisalis, excepting that 

 the outer band is composed of only two upper inner spots and a recurved series of 

 small spots : hiudwing hyaline-white, with a broad brownish-ochreous marginal band 

 traversed by an inner white line, and a medial waved band. Thorax white speckled ; 

 abdomen with white bands ; palpi white beneath. Cilia white, with brown inner 

 macular line. 



Expanse, $ ru, ? fa inch. 



Genus NAUSINOE. 



Nausinoe, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 362 (1825-7). 



Phalamjiodes* Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 278 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 467; 



Snellen, Tij.l. voor Ent. 1880, p. 238 ; id. 1884, p. 45 ; Meyrick, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1884), 



p. 294. 

 Phalangodes, LeJerer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 445 (1863). 



Male. Forewing long, triangular; exterior margin very oblique; cell nearly 

 two-fifths the length ; first subcostal at two-fifths before end of the cell, second close 

 to end, trifid, fifth from the end ; discocellular outwardly oblique, slender, radials 

 from near the middle and lower end ; median Yerj thick from the base to beyond end 

 of the cell (appearing as if it was double), recurved, upper branch from end of cell, 

 two lower branches from the thickened end at a short distance beyond the cell ; 

 submedian almost straight, with a lower branch curving downward and rejoining it 

 at one-third from the base : hiudwing short, very broad and triangular ; cell very 

 short, less than one-fourth the length; subcostals on a footstalk at a short distance 

 beyond the cell; discocellular very slender, concave, radial from near lower end, 

 waved at the base ; middle and lower medians from close to end of cell, joined at their 

 base, curved deeply downward and then upward; between the middle and lower 

 median is a transparent vitreous iridescent recurved-clavate streak; a straight 

 submedian and two curved internal veins. Female : veins normal ; vitreous streak not 

 present. Body very slender, abdomen very long and attenuated; thorax clothed with 

 lax silky hairy scales ; labial palpi porrect, compressed, broad, pilose beneath, third 

 joint minute, pointed, decumbent; maxillary palpi minute, pilose; antenna) very long, 

 slender, filiform; legs extremely long, slender; fore tibise and their tarsi clothed with 

 long silky hairs, middle tibite incrassated, clothed with silky hairs beneath, hind 

 tibiiB slightly pilose, spurs long, nearly equal in length. 

 Tijpe, N. Xeptis. 



* Phalangodes used in 1S42 for a genus of Arac'aniJas. 



