PYRALIBjE. 317 



Genus CHABULA. 



Male. Forewing elongated, triangular ; cell half the length ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one-fifth before end of the cell, third bifid, fifth from the end ; discocellular 

 very concave, radials from close to each end ; two upper medians from end of cell, 

 lower at nearly one-third : hindwing triangular, exterior margin very oblique, 

 slightly convex in the middle ; cell two-fifths the length ; two subcostals from the 

 end ; discocellular outwardly oblique, concave, radial from lower end ; two upper 

 medians from end of cell, lower at one-third. Body slender; thorax coarsely 

 squamous, tegulje clothed with long lax spatular scales ; labial palpi rather short, 

 laterally broad, oblique, not reaching the vertex, pilose in front, second joint 

 truncated, third joint minute, conical ; maxillary palpi distinct, oblique, reaching end 

 of the labial ; antennte ciliated ; legs rather slender, smooth, outer spurs short. 



Tijj)e, C. Acamasalis. 



CHABULA ACAMASALIS. 



Zehronia Acamasalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 970 (1859). 



Zebronia perspicualis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1347 (1865). 



Botys Jlexissimilis, Walker, id. p. 1426 (1865). 



Ileterocneplus stranrjulalis, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1880, p. 224 ; iil. 1884, p. 35, pi. 3. f. 1. 



White : forewing crossed by a broad violaceous-brown subbasal, medial, and 

 an apical outwardly-oblique band, the antemedial and postmedial white area also 

 traversed by a narrow brown parallel line ; the brown bands with indistinct whitish 

 posterior marks, the mark on the middle band being curved : hindwing with a broad 

 interrupted marginal brown band, an irregular discal band, two convergent narrow 

 inner bauds, and a streak at end of the cell. Cilia alternate white and brown, with 

 brown inner line. Head, thorax, and abdomen with longitudinal brown bands ; 

 palpi and forelegs with transverse brown bands. 



Expanse -h to tu inch. 



Genus OMPHISA. 



Forewing subfalcate ; apex acute ; exterior margin .slightly denticulated, and 

 almost angular in the middle; cell long, extending three-fifths the length; first 

 subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, third bifid, fifth from the end ; 

 discocellular outwardly oblique, radials from near the ends ; middle median very 

 close to the end, ^ower at one-fourth; submedian with a slender recurved lower 

 branch extending to half its length : hindwing somewhat quadrate, rather narrow ; 

 apex convex, exterior margin slightly denticulated, convexly angular in the middle ; 

 cell nearly half the length ; subcostals from the end, upper partly joined to the 

 costal; discocellular concave, radial from lower end; two upper medians from 



