Genera and Species of Pyralidee. 173 
TRICHAUCHENIA, gen. nov. 
es elongate, narrow ; costa straight, hind margin 
straight, oblique. Hind wing rounded. Palpi porrect, 
roughly scaled, the last joint drooping ; tongue present, rough- 
scaled ; forehead with a short projecting cone of hair ; 
antenna long, simple in female, in male moniliform, subden- 
tate beneath, ‘each jomt armed with a fascicle of long, fine, 
curling cilia ; patagia of male very long, as in Endotricha ; 
ocelli wanting , scaling smooth and glossy. 
ey pee el « Tharmsaly, Butler (Zuclita), Ill. Lep. Het. vu. 
peo2, pl. exxxiv, fig. 13 
Fore wing 
ACTENIOIDES, gen. nov. 
Fore wings elongated ; costa straight, in the male some- 
what concave in the middle; apex » distinct ; hind margin 
obliquely curved. Hind wings rounded, broader than fore 
wings ; ocelli present. Antenne with the basal joint enlarged, 
ciliated in the male ; labial and maxillary palpi horizontally 
porrect ; tongue small; thorax and pihloquien stout in com- 
parison with the size of the insects, Female lar ger than male ; 
scaling of wings and legs coarse and thick. 
Type A. creperalis 2, Swinh. (Nephopteryx), P. Z. 8. 
Lond. 1885, p. 877, pl. lvii. fig. 20. . 
MoNnocona, gen. nov. 
Fore wings triangular ; costa mainly straight, but slightly 
concave in the middle ; apex rounded off ; ‘hind margin 
curved. Hind wing rounded. Labial palpi short, porrect, 
loosely fringed beneath with rough hairs, the terminal joint 
forming a kind of double tuft 5 maxillary palpi, tongue, and 
ocelli absent ; forehead produced into a horny conical projec- 
tion, bluntly ‘flattened vertically ; antennee thick, annulated, 
the basal joint swollen; thorax and abdomen stout ; scaling 
coarse. 
Neuration.—F ore wing with first median nervule starting 
at two thirds, second, third, and lower radial close together, 
one after the other, from end of cell; first subcostal nervule 
opposite to first median, second close before end, third and 
fourth on a common stem, fifth and upper radial beyond ; the 
cell rounded off above and not angulated. Hind wing ‘with 
the three median nervules and the lower radial all close 
together from lower end of cell; discocellular angulated ; 
lower portion long, oblique. 
Type W. rubralis, Warr. 
