Type 
Classification of the Pyralide. 167 
Genus OLIGosTIGMa. 
Oligostigma, Guen., Delt. and Pyr., p. 260 (1854). 
Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with hair in 
front and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd well developed and 
acuminate; maxillary palpi long and dilated with scales at 
extremity ; frons rounded ; antenne of male usually annulated ; 
ocelli rarely prominent ; legs long, the tibiz smooth, with the spurs 
Oligostigma picale, 2,2 (from Moths Ind., vol. iv.). 
almost equal. Forewing with veins 3, 4,5 from angle of cell; 7 
straight and well separated from 8, 9,10. Hindwing with the cell 
about half the length of wing; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 from 
upper angle, 7 strongly anastomosing with 8; the outer margin 
excised below apex, then lobed. 
Sect. I. Hind tibiee of male without groove and tuft. 
A. Antenne of male not thickened and flattened. 
a. Hindlegs of male without tufts of hair on the 
COXe. 
(1). *OLIGosTIGMA CRYPTALE, Druce, Biol. Centr. Mexico, 
Am. Het., ii., p. 274, pl. 63, fig. 19 : Centr. Am. 
(2). OLIGosTIGMA JUNCEALE,} Guen., Delt. and 
Ryn p. 206i, pl. 4, fig. 6. : s . Brazil. 
(3). FOLIGOSTIGMA SEMINEALE, WIk., xvil., 430 . U.S.A. 
(4). FOLIGOSTIGMA FLAVIMARGINALE, Warr., 
Trans. Ent. Soc, Lond., 1889, p. 294  . Brazil. 
(5). FOLIGOSTIGMA ANGULIPENNE, Hmpsn., II. 
Het. vit p: 139, pl. 15d );fig.'G =: 2709. india. 
(6). FOLIGOSTIGMA NIVEINOTATUM, Hmpsn., Il. 
Hethix..p. 176; pl. 174, fig. 32". . Ceylon. 
(7). fOLIGosTIGMA coRCULINA, Butl., Ill. Het., 
Hiepeecos pl, O90, fig. To : 4 . Japan. 
t In junceale vein 10 of the forewing sometimes arises from the 
cell. 
