niYCITIDyE. 367 



MELLA ZINCKENELLA. 



Phjcis ZinclceniUn, Treitschke, Schmett. Eiir. ix. p. 201 (1832). 



Phycis Eticlln, Treit;^clike, id. x. pp. 174 et 27G (1835). 



Etlella Zinckindla, Zeller, Isis, 1846, p. 7o5. 



Chilo mnjoreniis, Co.sta, Faun, di Napoli, Lep. p. 5, pi. 8, fig. 1, ? (1836). 



Cliilo cohnelhis, Copta, /</. p. 7, pi. S, f. 2, <? . 



MeUa chjmnxisalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 1017 (1839). 



Assara albicostalis, Walker, jVZ. xxvii. p. 80 0863). 



Modiana scittivittalis. Walker, id. xxvii. p. 83 (18G3). 



Alata anticalis, Walker, id. xxvii. p. 108 (1863). 



Craiidms sahiJimts, Butler, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. v. vol. iv. p. 455 (1879). 



Forewing pale purplish cinereous-brown, with a wliitisli band extending below 

 the costal edge ; crossed by an antemedial curved row of reddish raised scales, whicli 

 is outwardly bordered by a diffused reddish band, and inwardly by a broad blackish- 

 grey border : hindwing purplish brownish-white, with brown veins, marginal line, 

 and interciliary baud ; cilia edged with white. Body pale purplish-brown ; sides of 

 vertex and base of palpi beneath whitish ; palpi and forelegs dark brown ; hindlegs 

 paler. 



Expanse yV to 1 inch. 



Genus EPICROSIS. 

 Epicrosis, Zeller, Isis, 1848, p. 878. 

 Forewing rather short and broad ; cell about three-fifths the length ; first sub- 

 costal emitted at one-third, second and third approximate and from angle near the 

 end, third bifid ; discocellular slightly concave, radial from close to lower end ; 

 middle median close to end of cell, lower at one-eighth ; submedian straight : hind- 

 wing ample, broad, apex convex ; cell fully one-third ; subcostals from the end, 

 upper partly joined to the costal ; discocellular obliquely concave, radial and upper 

 median on a footstalk half beyond the cell; middle median from end of cell, lower 

 at one-fourth ; a straight submedian and two internal veins. Body rather stout ; 

 palpi ascending, slender, lanceolate, second joint reaching the vertex, third joint more 

 than half-length of second, acute at the tip ; antennas slender, smooth ; legs rather 

 stout, squamous, spurs unequal. 



EPICKOSIS FESTIVELLA f Plate 184, Fig. 8.) 



Epicrosis fe.stivclla, Zeller, Isis, 1848, p. 878. 



Forewing purplish cupreous-red, the base obliquely smeared with flesh colour ; 



crossed by an outwardly-oblique medial white band with black-speckled borders, 



beyond which, at the end of the cell, is a large fleshy-white patch extending upwards 



to the costa, the patch being bordered by a dai'k streak at end of the cell, and the 



