228 LIMACODID.E. 



covered with long hairs, but with no tibial process such as is present 

 in Chalia, Eiimeta, Dappida, Metisa, etc. Mouth parts are wanting. 

 N.B. The veination of Psychida differs in such an extreme manner 

 in closely allied species ; characters based on it are seldom of more 

 than specific value. 



1075. Chalioides vitrea : n. sp. Hampson MS. ined. 



$ Antennae head, thorax and abdomen black, the wings perfectly 

 transparent with narrow dark margins. Fore- wing with costal vein, 

 two sub-costal branches before the end of the cell, the 3rd from the 

 end, bifid, upper radial from the upper discocellular, the lower 

 radial and third median veinlet from the lower end of cell on a short 

 foot-stalk, the first and second medians from before the end of cell 

 at intervals, a short veinlet in the cell, sub-median anastomosing 

 with an aborted internomedian. Hind-wing with a bar connecting 

 the costal and sub-costal, two sub-costal branches from end of cell, a 

 radial from the middle of discocellulars, 3rd median veinlet from 

 lower end of cell, 2nd and ist median from before the end at 

 intervals, a veinlet in the cell, submedian and internal veins. 



Larva case smooth and tapering at both ends, covered with com- 

 minuted vegetable matter. 



Expanse of wing i inch. 

 Type. Kandy, Ceylon, in B. M. 

 a. India. 



Chalioides vitrea. Hampson. 



Family LIMACODIDiB. 



Genus SCOPELODES. Westwood : Dune. Nat. Libr., xxxvii. 



p. 222 (1841). 

 Bethura. Walker: Journ. Linn. Soc, Lond., vi. p. 173 (1862). 



1076. Soopelodes unicolor. 



Scopelodes unicolor. Westwood : Dune. Nat. Libr., xxxvii. p. 222 (1841). 

 Scopelodes palpalis. Walker: v. 11 05 (1855). 



Cotes and Swinh. (part.) : Cat. Moths of India, ii. 188, 



1266 (1887). 

 Bethura inina.x. Walker : Joum. Linn. Soc, Lond., vi. p. 173 (1S62). 



xxxii. 492 (1865), 



