224 Mr. E. Meyrick on the 
very long, straight, porrected, clothed with dense rough scales 
diminishing to apex, terminal joint moderate, partially concealed. 
Maxillary palpi moderate, terminally dilated with scales. Abdomen 
in male with moderate anal tuft, valves exserted. Posterior tibie 
with outer middle-spur one-half, outer end-spur three-fourths of 
inner. Fore wings with veins 8 and 9 stalked, 10 anastomosing 
shortly with 9 near base, 11 moderate, oblique. Hind wings as 
broad as fore wings; veins 4 and 5 short-stalked, 7 out of 6 near 
origin, anastomosing with 8 to near middle. 
Allied to Scopula, but with all spurs of tibie developed ; 
it differs from all genera of this group, and indeed 
perhaps all Pyrales, in the neuration of the fore wings, 
in which vein 10 anastomoses with 9, as it usually does 
in the Noctuina. 
20. Protocolletis constricta, Butl. 
Scopula constricta, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 
1882, 40. 
3 2, 20—22mm. Palpi five. Fore wings elongate-triangular, 
costa gently arched, faintly sinuate, apex tolerably rectangular, 
hind margin bowed, oblique; rufous; a dark fuscous dot beneath 
costa at one-fourth ; a small roundish spot outlined with darker in 
dise before middle; a nearly straight dark fuscous line from 
anterior edge of this to two-fifths of inner margin, preceded by a 
more or less marked whitish-ochreous suffusion; a reniform spot 
outlined with dark fuscous beyond middle; an indistinct waved 
dark fuscous line from three-fourths of costa towards anal angle, 
indented beneath costa, below middle curved inwards to beneath 
reniform spot, thence tolerably rectangularly bent to two-thirds of 
inner margin, lower portion posteriorly suffusedly margined with 
whitish ochreous, sometimes margined with small whitish-ochreous 
lunules throughout; a subterminal series of faimt pale marks; 
a hind-marginal series of black dots, connected by a faint pale 
line; cilia rufous, with a dark grey basal line. Hind wings light 
fuscous, suffused with ochreous-whitish towards costa, becoming 
rather darker posteriorly; two rather large dark fuscous dots 
obliquely placed in dise before middle; an obscure waved curved 
ochreous-whitish line, preceded by a darker line, about three- 
fourths, parallel to hind margin; a hind-marginal series of black 
dots margined and connected with ochreous-whitish ; cilia reddish- 
whitish, basal third dark grey barred with ochreous-whitish. 
Three specimens. 
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