CRAMBID^. 377 



palpi extending to half-length of the labial; antennae stout, minutely serrated and 

 biciUated, basal joint thick, pointed and very slightly tufted in front ; legs ratlier 

 stout, tibia3 laxly squamous, spui-s long, slender, unequal. 



Type, L. sentiusalis. 



This genus is closely allied to the Australian genus Gadlra of Walker, which 

 has since been re-named Grijptomima by Meyrick. 



LORYMA VENOSELLA. 



Tcmha venoscUa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. p. 1767 (1866), $. 



Forewing pale ochreous-brown, minutely speckled with black scales; veins 

 cinereous-white ; crossed by an inwardly-oblique medial recurved angulated white 

 line, and a curved submarginal line ; the lines being bordered by the black scales ; 

 followed by a white-bordered slender black marginal Hue: hindwing cinereous- 

 white, with a slender black marginal line, and broader interciliar line. Body pale 

 ochreous-brown ; tegulse and segments narrowly bordered with cinereous-white ; 

 legs speckled with cinereous-white scales. 



Expanse to inch. 



Genus SURATTHA. 



Sw-attha, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 75 (1863). 

 Pindicitora, Walker, id. xxvii. p. 134 (1863). 

 Calarina, Walker, id. xxxiv. p. 1769 (1866). 



Male and female. Forewing narrow, rounded at the tip, costa straight, exterior 

 maro-in obliquely convex ; cell two-thirds the length ; first subcostal at one-third 

 before end of the cell, second and third close to the end, third bifid, fifth from the 

 end ; discocellular outwardly oblique, slightly concave ; upper radial from slight 

 anole near subcostal, lower radial and upper median on a footstalk half beyond end 

 of the cell, middle median from close to the end, lower at nearly one-fifth before the 

 end ; submedian nearly straight, and with a very slender lower recurved branch : 

 hindwino- ample, apex and exterior margin convex ; cell about one-third the length 

 at its upper end and two-thirds at its lower end ; costal vein undulated ; one subcostal 

 only, which is curved upward from end of the cell and slightly touches the costal ; 

 discocellular bent obliquely outward in the middle, radial from upper end near the 

 middle ; the middle median from close to end of cell, lower at one-fourth ; a sub- 

 median and two internal veins. Body moderately stout; abdomen slightly tufted; 

 labial palpi porrect, stout, projecting half beyond the head, laxly pilose, third joint 

 elongate-conical, acute, and about one-fourth the length of second ; maxillary palpi 

 about half-length of the labial, laxly pilose at the tip; antenna in the male 



VOL. III. 3 c 



