TEILOCHAXA. SCIAPTEEOtf. 191 



*350. Trilochana scolioides, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 10, pi. ii, fig. 2; 

 C. $ S. no. 206. 



Antennae dark brown. Palpi, thorax, and abdomen purple- 

 brown, the segments of the last fringed with grey; the last two 

 segments at sides and below and anal tuft red, some black hairs 

 fringing the tuft above. Legs clothed with long black hairs, hind 

 tarsi yellowish. Wings shining olive-green, a short narrow trans- 

 parent basal streak on fore wing and two triangular streaks on the 

 hind wing. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 47 millim. 



351. Trilochana ignicauda, n. sp. 



c? . Differs from scolioides in the head, thorax, abdomen, and 

 wings being uniform dark purplish metallic blue ; abd&men with 

 the lateral and anal tufts fiery red. Fore wing without a hyaline 



Fig. 120. Trilochana ignicauda, $ . \. 



streak ; hind wing with three hyaline streaks at base. Underside 

 with the outer half of wings bronzy. Palpi fringed with grey hairs ; 

 legs uniform black. 



Hob. Momeit, Burma (Doherty). Exp. 29 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



Genus SCIAPTERON. 



Sciapteron, Staudgr. Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 1856, p. 195. 



Pramila, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 9 (1879). 



Pseudosesia, Feld. Sitzungsb. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xliii, 1, p. 28 (1861). 



Type, S. tabaniforme, E-ott., from Europe. 



Range. The Palsearctic Region ; Sikhim ; Burma. 



Palpi upturned, the third joint short, as in Trochilium. Vena- 

 tion of fore wing as in that genus ; hind wing with the disco- 

 cellulars but slightly oblique ; veins 3 and 4 from end of cell. 

 Anal tuft strongly developed ; hind tibiae but slightly fringed 

 with hair. 



SECT. I. Male with antennae bipectinated. 

 352. Sciapteron flammans, n. sp. 



Palpi, head, and legs orange-yelloxv, with a few black scales on 

 them ; antennae orange ; collar black, fringed with yellow ; thorax 

 black, the tegulae and metathorax fringed with yellow ; abdomen 

 blue-black, each segment with a bright yellow band ; anal tuft 

 black and orange. Fore wing clothed with orange and black scales, 



