314 AEBELID.E. 



nervure. Hind wing with veins 4 and 5 from a point ; G and 7 

 stalked ; 8 free. 



673. Eremocossus fcedus, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 515, pi. 47, fig. 1 ; 

 C.$S.no. 1600. 



<5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white. Fore win<* 

 pale brownish ochreous, with ill-defined white longitudinal bands 

 in and below the cell; a similar submarginal transverse bund. 

 Hind wing white. 



Hab. Karachi. Exp. 28 millim. 



Species formerly recorded as Indian which are omitto?. 



Zeuzera asylas, Cram., C. & S. no. 1586, is from S. Africa. 

 Duomitus capensis,W\k. Cat. vii. p. 1533. In coll. B. M. are two 



specimens labelled ' India,' but the ' Eecord ' shows the 



locality to be doubtful. 



Family ARBELID^E. 



Allied to the Cossidce. Proboscis absent; palpi slight and 

 porrect ; antenna) of male bipectinated to tips ; the branches 

 short ; legs with the spurs minute or absent. Frenulum absent. 

 Fore wing with vein 16 forked at the base ; Ic absent; no areole. 

 Hind wing with three internal veins ; a simple veiulet in the cell 

 of each wing. 



Larvce borers in wood. 



Key to the Genera. 



a. Hind wing with a bar between veins 7 and 8 . . 1. ARBKLA, p. "! \. 

 />. Hind wing with no bar between veins 7 and 8 ; [p. .">l-">. 



the cell short 2. EXCAUMAPTKHA, 



Genus ARBELA. 

 Arbela, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 411. 



Type, A. tetraonis, Moore. 



Mange. Peninsular India and Ceylon ; Burma. 



Palpi minute ; antennae bipectinated to tips in male, the branches 

 short, simple in female. Mid and hind tibiae slightly hairy, with 

 minute terminal pairs of spurs. Fore wing with veins 7, 8, 9 stalked 

 together. Hind wing with the cell of normal length ; vein 6 given 

 off below the angle ; vein 8 connected with the subcostal nervure 

 by an oblique bar near centre of cell. 



674. Arbela qnadrinotata, Wlk. Cat. vii, p. 1521 ; C. $ S. no. 1603 ; 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. ii, pi. 143, fig. 3. 

 Cossus abruptus, WIU. Cat. xxxii^ p. 584 j C. % S. no. 1581. 



