Oenera and Species o/'Pyralidaj. 429 



darker submarginal curved line. Head, face, palpi, and 

 thorax concolorous with base of the fore wings ; abdomen 

 dark. Underside glossy ochreous, tinged with pink ; space 

 beyond second line in both wings dark fuscous. 



Expanse of wings 26 millim. 



One female from Yesso. 



PsEUDOLOCASTRA, gen, nov. 



Fore wings three times as long as broad, narrow at base, 

 widening out towards hind margin ; costa straight till shortly 

 before apex, which is blunt ; hind margin obliquely curved. 

 Hind wing rounded. Antennge filiform in male, slightly 

 pubescent in female; palpi of female as in Parasarama ^, 

 with terminal joint thickened, of male thickly clothed with a 

 mass of appressed scales, club-like, and recurved over the 

 head ; abdomen of female short, of male prolonged beyond 

 the hind wings, the anal segments thickened ; patagia pro- 

 minent ; fore wings of male without raised scales ; hind 

 wings of both sexes hairy towards inner margin. 



Type P. inimica, Butler (Locastra), Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 1879, ii. p. 448, ? . 



Orthoteichophora, gen. nov. 



Resembles Pseudolocastra, but smaller, and with the palpi 

 of the male in comparison greatly exaggerated, reaching as 

 far as the middle of the thorax ; distinguished at once by the 

 cell in the fore wings of the male being occupied by an erect 

 screen of dark hairs ; middle tibiae with a thick fringe of 

 hairs ; scaling finer and smoother, beneath glossy. 



Type Orthotrichoi/hora syrichtuscdisj Walk. {Beriula) , xvi. 

 p. 165. 



Proboscidophora, gen. nov. 



Fore wings with the costa in the female slightly, in the 

 male decidedly, shouldered near the base, faintly concave in 

 middle and a little curved before apex, which is blunt ; hind 

 margin obliquely curved. Plind wings rounded. Antennae 

 of female simple, of male strongly ciliated, especially along 

 the basal half, and with a conspicuous distortion about the 

 middle ; palpi of female upcurved in front of face, with ter- 

 minal joint aculeate, as in Parasarama $ , in male with the 

 second joint short, thickened, and slightly porrected upwards ; 

 the third joint very long, four times as long as second, 



