Classification of the Pijralidcu. 491 



point, the outer margin excised below it ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle 

 of cell ; G from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 free. Hind- 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; G, 7 

 from upper angle. 



Type. fTitiKKOPis nesias, Meyr.. Trans. Eut. Soc, 



188G, p. 218 Tonga. 



Genus Tuichophysetis. 



Trlchophysetis, Meyr.. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1884, p. 287. 

 Callinaias, Swinb., Trans. Ent. Soc, 1890, p. 28G. 

 Crasif/cnes, Meyr., Trans, Ent. Soc, 1894, p. 476. 

 Alphtrakia, Rag., Ann. Ent. Soc. Fr., 1890, p. 520. 



Pal()i porrect, about twice as long as head and thickly tufted 

 with hair hiding the 3rd joint ; maxillary palpi with a long 



Trichoplnjsetin tiigrirjncta, $ , j (from Moths Ind., vol. iv.). 



pointed tuft of hair from extremity extending nearly as far as 

 the labial palpi ; frons rounded ; antennse thickened and flattened ; 

 legs with the spurs long and equal. Forewing with the apex 

 rounded ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from above angle ; 7, 8, 

 'J, 10 stalked, or 7 absent, or 10 from cell. Hindwing with vein [> 

 from above angle of cell, which is short ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. (TricJiophysetis). — Hindwing with veins 3, 4 from 

 cell. 



A. Forewing witli vein 7 present. 



ft. Forewing with vein 10 stalked with 7, 8, 9. 



Type. (1). fTRiciiopHYSETis cretacea, Butl., 111. Amur, Japan, 

 Het., iii., p. 75, pi. 59, fig. 8 . . . Australia, 

 Paraponyx obnuhilalis, Christ., Bull. Moss.. Norfolk, III. 



Ivi., p. 32. 

 Trichophysefisrienpliyla, Meyr., Trans. Ent. 

 Soc, 1884, p. 287. 



