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tooth on primaries smaller than in Hi/perseschra. Male antenuse fasciculate-ser- 

 rate ; female simple. Wiugs and body white. 



Type and sole species, M. bicolora Den. and Schiif. 

 Larva smooth, inconspicuously marked. 



Gepus APELiA Walker. 



1855.— Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. v, 1092. 

 1892.— Hampson, Moths of India i, 168. 



Type and sole species, A. divisa Walk. 



Genus PTEROSTOMA Germar. 



1812. — Pterostoma Germar, Syst. Gloss. Prodr. ii, 42. 



1828.— Pfilodontis Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii, 28. 



1829. — Orfhorinia Boisduval, Ind. Meth. 56. 

 Palpi very long, obliquely ascending, flattened; male with a furcate anal tuft; 

 a tufted tooth on the internal margin of primaries and a tuft on -the outer angle; 

 venation much as in Ptilodon, 6 arising from the under side of the accessory cell, 

 7-10 stalked ; antennae pectinate in both sexes. 



Type and sole species, P. palpinum Clerck. 



The larva is smooth, and so like that of Lophodonia augulosa, as, 

 perhaps, to be mistaken for it. 



Genus SPATAEIA Hiibner. 



1818 — %/irt??Vt Hiibner. Verz. bek. Schmett. 145. 

 1855.— Eosama Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. v, 1066. 

 1862. — Caschara Walker, Journ. Liun. Soc. Lond. vi, 1336. 

 1862. — Allata Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. vi, 140. 

 1864.— Celeia Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. x.xxii, 463. 

 1892. — Spatalia Hampson, Moths of India i. 168. 

 The antennae of the male may have the pectinations short or long. 



Type S. argeiitina Den. and Schiff. The other species are argeu- 

 tifera Walk, (type of Allata and Celeia^, gemmifera Moore, costalis 

 Moore, argenfa.ta Moore, albifascla Hampson, aaritracta Moore, plu- 

 sioides Moore, drigosa Walk, (type of Eosama), puncUfera Walk, 

 (type of Caschara). 



The larva of the type is smooth, noctuidous in appearance, with 

 slight brown elevations on the first abdominal segment. 



Genus BESAIA Walker. 



1864.— Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. xxxii.-458. 

 1892. — Hampson, Moths of India i, 171. 



Type and sole species, B. rubigena Walk. 



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