316 HEPIALID.I. 



677. Encaumaptera stigmata, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 66, pi. 144, 

 fig. 1. 



cJ . Mouse-grey. Fore wing with a patch of short scales below 

 the end of the cell, with a copper-coloured longitudinal streak 

 below it from which two black bands run to inner margin, the 

 inner one oblique, the outer erect ; a patch of short black scales 



Fig. 216. Encaumaptera stigmata, 



beyond the end of the cell, with a small copper spot at its lower 

 extremity ; and a dark band from the costa to its upper extremity; 

 a dark band from the costa near the apex ; outer area with some 

 dark striae. Hind wing paler. 



llab. Nilgiris, 3500 feet. Exp. 40 millim. 



Family HEPIALID^E. 



Proboscis absent; palpi usually absent. Antennas very short 

 and filiform. Legs short and without spurs. Fore wing with 

 vein 1 a forming a fork with 6 or separate ; a bar from vein 12 to 

 the costa near the base. Hind wing with 1 2 veins ; 3 internal 

 veins ; a bar from vein 12 to the costa near the base ; veinlets in 

 the cell of both wings forked. Frenulum absent. 



Larvae, internal feeders in wood or the roots of grasses &c.* 



Key to the Genera. 



a. Palpi present. Fore wing: with no bar 



between vein 1 b and median nervure . . 1. PALPIFER, p. 316. 



b. Palpi absent. Fore winty with a bar 



between vein 1 b and median nervure. 



a. Veins 8, 9, 10 of both win<rs stalked . . 2. HEPIALISCUS, p. 317. 

 b'. Vein 10 of both wings not stalked with 



8 and 9 3. PHASSUS, p. 318. 



Genus PALPIFER, nov. 



Type, P. sevnotatus, Moore. 

 Ranf/e. Himalayas; Ceylon; Tenasserim. 



Palpi large, rounded, and ascending. Antennaa short and seti- 

 ferous. Legs hairy ; tibia3 without spurs. Fore wing without a 



* Next to the Hepialida would coine the Micropterygidce, if the Heterocera 

 could be arranged in a linear series. 



