ZYG^NIN/E. ^^ 



Genus CHBYSARTONA. Gen. Nov. 

 Type, C. stipata (Walker), 



Antennas bipectinated in male, simple in female ; palpi short and 

 porrect ; middle tibi?e with one pair of minute spurs, hind tibiae 

 with two pairs. Fore- wings with veins 8 and 9 not stalked. Hind- 

 wings with veins 3 and 4 not stalked, 5 from the lower end of cell, 

 6 absent ; closely allied to the genus Artona, in which the wings are 

 longer and narrower and the hind tibiae have no spurs ; also to 

 Procris type statices, in which vein 6 of the hind-wings is present. 



243. Chrysartona stipata. 



Prociis slipata. Walker: i. 114(1856). 



Butler : 111. Typ. Lep. Het, B. M., i. p. 13, pi. 7, f. 9 (1877). 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 44. 214 (1887). 



Type. North India, in B. M. 



a. India. 



Genus ZYGiEISTA. Fabr, : Syst. Ent., p. 550 (1775). 

 Syst. Gloss. (Illiger's Mag., iv. 1807). 



244. Zygaena cashmirensis. 



Zygiciia cashmirensis. KoUar : Kasch. von Hiig., iv. p. 459, pi. 19, f. 6 

 (1848). 



Walker: i. 102 (1854). 



Moore : Cat. Lep. E. I. C, ii. 286 (1859). 



Cotes and Swinh. : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 44. 



213 (1887). 

 a. India (3). 



Genus PLATYZYGJENA. Gen. Nov. 



Type, P. vioclleri (Elwes). 



? Antennae simple, palpi very minute, tibiae without spurs, thorax 

 and abdomen stout, wings broad and rounded with all the veins 

 present ; fore-wing with veins 8 and 9 stalked ; hind-wing with the 

 costal touching the sub-costal branch before the end of the cell. 



245. Platyzygaena moelleri. 



Soritia {?) moclkri. Elwes : P. Z. S., Lend., 1890, p. 385, pi. .xxxii. f. 13. 

 Type. Sikkim, in coll. Elwes. 

 a. Assam (Jenkins). 



p. Moelleri. Elw. 



