Genera and Species o/Pyi-alidai. 173 



Teichauchenia, geii. no v. 



Fore wings elongate, narrow ; costa straight, hind margin 

 straight, oblique. Hind wing rounded. Palpi porrcct, 

 roughly scaled, the last joint drooping ; tongue present, rough- 

 sealed ; forehead with a short projeeting eone of hair ; 

 antennai long, simple in female, in male moniliform, subden- 

 tate beneath, eaeh joint armed with a faseiele of long, fine, 

 curling cilia ; patagia of male very long, as in Endotrkha ; 

 ocelli wanting, scaling smooth and glossy. 



Type 2\ dharmsala', Butler [Euclita), 111. Lep. Het. vii. 

 p. 92, pi. cxxxiv. fig. 13. 



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. Antennte with tlie basal joint enlarged, 

 ciliated in the male ; labial and maxillary palpi horizontally 

 porrect ; tongue small ; thorax and abdomen stout in com- 

 parison with the size of the insects. Female larger than male ; 

 scaling of wings and legs coarse and thick. 



Type A. creperalis $ , Swinh. {Nephopter^x) , P. Z. S. 

 Lond. 1885, p. 877, pi. Ivii. fig. 20. 



MONOCONA, gen. nov. 



Fore v/ings 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 ; maxillary palpi, tongue, and 

 ocelli absent ; forehead produced into a horny conical projec- 

 tion, bluntly flattened vertically ; antennae thick, anuulated, 

 the basal joint swollen j thorax and abdomen stout ; scaling 

 coarse. 



Neuration. — Fore wing with first median uervule 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 oft' 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 j 

 lower portion long, oblique. 



Type M. rubralis, Warr. 



