PYRALID^E. 331 



Genus FILODES. 



Filodes, Gncnee, Delt. et. Pyral. \\ 317 (lSo4) ; LeJeror, Pyral. Wion. Ent. Mouat. vii. p. 390. 



Pinacia (part), Hiibner ; Geyer. 



Auxomitin, LeJerer, Pyral. Wien. Eat. Monat. vii. p. 391 (1863). 



Differs from Neurina in the forewing being more triangular, tlie exterior margin 

 very obliqne and not convex : liindwing longer, narrower, less convex on exterior 

 margin. Venation similar. Body not stout; abdomen slender, longer, with lateral 

 tufts and short anal tuft ; palpi shorter ; antennae much longer, which extend one- 

 third beyond the forewing ; fore tibice in the male thickly pilose, fore tarsi pilose at 

 the sides, the hairs on the outer side of basal joint very long ; middle and hind tarsi 

 also slightly pubescent. 



FILODES FULVIDORSALIS (Plate 182, Fig. 2, S, 2a larva). 



Pinacia fulvidorsalis, liubner, Geyer. Zutrage Samml. Exot. Schmett. 15, 322, fig. 643-4 (1832). 

 Filodes fulvidorsalis, Giienee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 317 ; Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Eut. Monat. vii. p. 390, 



pi. 12, fig. 17. 

 Eiujlyphisjihidorsalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 539. 



Wings purplish fuliginous-grey : forewing reddish-ochreous at the base; with a 

 chalybeous-black spot at the base and speckles along the costal border, three pure 

 black spots in the cell, and another below the cell. Thorax, head, and abdomen above, 

 reddish-ochreous ; front of head and palpi chalybeous-black ; pectus yellow ; legs 

 cupreous-brown; body beneath, and short lateral tufts and anal tuft chalybeous- 

 black ; dorsal spots chalybeous-grey. 



Expanse l-ra inch. 



Larva short ; olive-green ; head yellowish ; with several black wai'ty spots, and 

 white subdorsal streaks ; front legs black. 



Pupa red ; with a prolonged slender lingual and pedal sheath. 



"Feeds on Thunbergia alata " (Thwaites.) 



FILODES MIRIFICALIS. 



AuxODiitia inirijlvalis, LeJerer, Pyral. Wion. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 391, pi. 13, fig. 1 (1863). 



Closely allied to F. fulvidorsalis. Differs only in being slightly greyer in 

 colour : forewing v/ith the ochreous base obsolescent or quite absent ; basal black spot 

 similar ; and with faint traces of a transverse oblique discal blackish fascia : hind- 

 wing also with faint traces of a similar fascia, and a spot at end of the cell. Body 

 paler ochreous, with silvery-grey bands and tufts. 



Expanse l^a to 1 fV inch. 



Genus DODANGA. 

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



