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SICULODIDiE. 



Fore wings with vein 7 separate, 8 or 9 stalked or separate, 

 10 present, separate. Hind wings with veins 6 and 7 remote at 

 origin, lower median not pectinated. 



Although some forms of this family differ from all 

 other Pijralidina in having veins 8 and 9 of the fore 

 wings separate, it is impossible in this instance to lay 

 stress on the character, since these veins are found both 

 stalked and separate in different specimens of the same 

 species ; the group must therefore be regarded as an 

 abnormal family of Pi/ralidina, probably ancestral in 

 character ; it verges on the Miisotimidxe, from which it 

 is distinguished in the nearest allied genera only by the 

 presence of vein 11 in the fore wings. 



SiCULODES, H.-S. 

 Forehead rounded, vertical ; ocelli present ; tongue well de- 

 veloped. Antennte two-thirds of fore wings, in male strongly 

 lamellate-dentate, shortly ciliated. Labial palpi moderate, obliquely 

 ascending, second joint with appressed or projecting scales, terminal 

 joint moderate or short, cylindrical, obtuse. Maxillary palpi 

 absent. Posterior tibiae with outer spurs less than half inner. 

 Fore wings with veins 8 and 9 separate or stallied, 10 approximated 

 to 9 at base. Hind wings as broad as fore wings ; veins 4 and 5 

 rising near together, G from angle of cell, 7 from rather before 

 angle, 8 free, approximated to 7 to rather beyond cell. 



39. Siculodes anticalis, Walk. 



Pyralis anticalis, Walk., SuppL, 1238. 



? , 22 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen, and legs white, 

 somewhat mixed with pale ochreoiis ; anterior tibitc and tarsi 

 banded with fuscous. Antennae whitish ochreous. Fore wings 

 rather elongate-triangular, narrow at base, costa posteriorly arched, 

 apex obtuse, hind margin bowed, oblique ; veins 8 and 9 separate, 

 approximated at base ; white, with numerous scattered brownish 

 ochreous fine transverse strigulaB, which partially coalesce to form 

 about six fine irregiilar transverse lines ; a small fuscous spot above 

 inner margin beyond middle ; a black subapical dot ; one or two 

 strigulas beneath apex somewhat marked with black ; cilia white. 

 Hind wings white ; strigulae as in fore wings ; cilia white. Fore 

 wings beneath with an irregular ochreons-brown streak along 



