AUZEODES. MYRTETA. 



151 



Palpi slender, smooth, and reaching beyond the frons ; antennae 

 of male simple. Fore wing with the costa excised beyond the 

 middle, the apex arched and falcate ; the outer margin excised 

 below apex, then excurved ; vein 3 before angle of cell; 7, 8, 9 

 stalked before upper angle; 10 absent; 11 free. Hind wing with 

 the inner margin long ; vein 3 before angle of cell. 



3093. Auzeodes nigroseriata, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 405. 



c? . Rufous, irrorated 

 with silvery scales ; the 

 head chocolate; a post- 

 medial series of black spots 

 from vein 4 to inner mar- 

 gin of each wing; fore 

 wing with a black mark 

 on costa before apex. 

 Underside vinous, suffused 



Fig. 82. Auzeodes nigroseriata, 

 Hob. E. Pegu. Exp. 42 millim. 



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with fuscous. 



Genus MYRTETA. 



Myrteta, Wlk. Cat. xxiii, p. 831 (1861). 

 Micronidia, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 258 (1887). 

 Orthocabera, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv, p. 439 (1879). 

 Microcodes, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 139 (1893). 



Type, M. planaria, Wlk. 



Range. Japan ; Sikhim ; Khasis ; Ceylon ; Borneo. 



Palpi slender and porrect, not reaching beyond frons. Fore 

 wing with vein 3 from just before angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked 

 from just before upper angle ; 10 and 1 1 stalked and anastomosing 

 with 12. Hind wing with vein 8 from before angle of cell. 



SECT. I. Antennae of male bipectinated, the branches short ; 

 hind tibia3 dilated. 



A. (Myrteta). Hind wing with the outer margin rounded. 



3094. Myrteta planaria, Wlk. Cat. xxiii, p. 831 ; Butl III. Het. vi, 

 pi. 118, fig. 9; C. # 8. no. 4027. 



Whitish, slightly suffused 

 with fuscous ; frons red- 

 brown. Fore wing with 

 outwardly oblique anteme- 

 dial, medial, and postme- 

 dial brown lines ; a diffused 

 submarginal line and dark 

 marginal line ; the outer 



Wz.W.-Myrteta planaria, <$ . \. &T slightly striated and 



suffused with brown. Hind 

 wing with two indistinct elbowed lines from near lower angle of 



