THUilATHA. GRArXASURA, 421 



Proboscis aborted, minute; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond tlie frons, 

 wLieh is clothed with rough hair ; antennre of jiiale bipectinate, with short 

 stit}' branches dilated at extremity ; tibiiB with the spurs moderate ; abdomen 

 clothed with rough hair. Fore wing rather short and broad ; vein 2 from 

 middle of cell ; 3 from well before angle ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from below 

 upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 free; 11 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from near middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; 8 from towards end of cell. 



A. Wings orange inconsians. 



B. Wings grey-brown fuscesceas. 



890. Tliumatlia inconstans. 



Bictenus inconstans, Bull. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 846, pi. xlii. f. 5. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, sometimes some orange 

 hair on vertex of head ; the base of abdomen with some orange hair ; 

 anal tuft orange ; wings orange-yellow, clothed with hair-like scales. 

 Fore wing with a little black sutfusion at base ; the costa and inner 

 margin black ; a black discoidal spot ; a terminal black band with 

 minutely dentate inner edge. Hind wing with tuscous discoidal 

 point. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the basal half only of costa and inner 

 margin black ; no terminal black band. 



Hab. Nyasa-land, Mt. Xasuugu 7425 ft. (Craivshay), 2 J , type. 

 Exjp. 20 millim. 



891. Thumatha fuscescens. 



Thumatha fuscescens, Wlk. xxxv. 1901 (1866) ; Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. 



p. 86, pi. 158. f. 18 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 122 ; Kh-by, Cat. Het. p. 364. 

 Nudaria infantula, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879, p. 261; id. Lep. Madag. 



p. 168, pi. 6. f. 81 ; Ku-by, Cat. Het. p. 361. 

 IScaodora rava, Lucas, P. Lnm. Soc. N. S. W.i2) \\. p. 1079 (1890) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 348. 



Grey-brown ; fore and mid tibine and 

 tarsi blackish above. Fore wing with 

 blackish sutt'usion at base of costal area ; 

 traces of an antemedial line angled outwards 

 on subcostal and median nervures ; a prom- 

 inent black discoidal spot ; a fuscous patch 

 on costa before apex ; a subterminal series 

 _„. „„^ ^„ , of short dark streaks on the veins, the one 



fuscescens, S- \. (From ^n vein 5 further from tei;men. 

 Moths Ind. vol. ii.) -a«o. W. Africa, Ogove R. ; Madagascar; 



Assam (Hartert) ; Ceylon (Green), 1 S ; 

 S.E. Borneo (Doherty), Id; Queensland, Moreton Bay (Digyles), 

 2 d" , type, Brisbane (Lucas), Coll. Meyrick. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus GRAPTASURA, nov. 



Type, G. polygrapha. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond the frons; 

 antenme of female with bristles and cilia ; (mid and hind legs wanting). Fore 

 wing with vein 2 from beyond middle of cell ; 3 from before angle ; 5 from 



