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Genus PILETOCERA. 
Piletocera, Led., Wien Ent. Mon., 1863, p. 431. 
Rinecera, Butl., Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1884, p. 95 
Danaya, Moore, Lep. Ceyl., iit., p. 272 (1885). 
Ptilzola, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 244. 
Hrebangela, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1836, 
. 245. 
Diplotyla, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 246. 
Strepsimela, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, 
p. 249. 
Graphicopoda, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, 
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y Hormatholepis, Butl., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886 
p. 425. 
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Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint moderately fringed with scales in 
front, and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd obtuse ; maxillary 
palpi extremely minute ; frons rounded ; antenne of male with 
the shaft thickened, usually with sinuations and tufts and fascicu- 
late before the tufts, serrate after them, or serrate throughout ; 
Piletocera egimiusalis, 3, + (from Moths Ind., vol. iv.). 
tibia with the outer spurs two-thirds length of inner, Forewing 
with veins 3, 4,5 from angle of cell; 7 well separated from 8, 9, 
10. Hindwing narrow, with the outer margin somewhat excised 
towards anal angle, the inner margin short ; the cell short ; veins 
3, 4, 5 from angle, 6, 7 from upper angle. 
Sect. I. (Diplotyla.) Antenne of male with the shaft 
sinuate and bearing large tufts of hair at one- 
third and two-thirds, the basal joint, and the 
extremity of abdomen dilated. 
(1). TPILETOCERA OCHROSEMA, Meyr., Trans. New Hebri- 
Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 247. 3 : des, Fiji. 
(2). =PILETOCERA CHLORONOTA, Meyr., Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond., 1889, p. 514. ; . New Guinea. 
(3). TPILETOCERA CycLosPILA, Meyr., Trans. 
Ent. Soc. Lond., 1886, p. 248. : . Samoa. 
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