VENILIA. LOXASPILATES. 181 



SECT. II. Fore wing with vein 11 free. 



A. (Caustoloma). Antennae of male bipectinate ; 

 hind wing emarginate. 



B. Antennae, of male with appressed serrations ; hind iviny with the 

 outer margin rounded. 



3181. Venilia himalayica, KolL HiiyeCs Kasckmir, iv, p. 485 ; C. $ S. 



no. 3197. 



Hyperythra ennomosaria, Wlk. Cat. xxvi, p. 1498; C. Sf S. 

 "no. 3145. 



Bright yellow ; head and collar chocolate-brown ; wings irrorated 



with fuscous. Fore wing with 

 the base of costa chocolate ; 

 chocolate strigse and one medial 

 and two postmedial spots on 

 costa ; a medial patch on inner 

 margin ; traces of ante- and 

 postmedial lines. Hind wing 

 prominently irrorated; a 

 slightly sinuous medial line ; 

 Venilia himalayica, tf. {. cilia of both wings chocolate. 



Underside with prominent 

 rufous specks conjoined in parts into patches. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Sikhim. Exjp. 36 millim. 



Genus LOXASPILATES. 



Loxaspilates, Warr. P. Z. S. 1893, p. 413. 



Type, L. obliquaria, Moore. 



Mange. Afghanistan; Himalayas. 



Palpi slender, porrect, and hairy, reaching beyond a short sharp 

 frontal tuft ; antennae thickened and flattened in male ; hind tibiae 

 dilated. Fore wing produced and acute at apex ; vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 5 from above middle of discocellulars, which 

 are angled ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, from before upper angle ; 11 free. 

 Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; the discocellulars 

 angled. 



3182. Loxaspilates obliquaria, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 649; C. $ S. 

 no. 3681. 



Ochreous ; palpi fuscous at sides ; abdomen irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous ; the costa blackish at 

 base; black spots on discocellulars, origin of vein 2, on vein 1 

 before middle, and sometimes on the subcostals ; an oblique post- 

 medial line with brownish suffusion beyond it ; a slightly sinuous 

 submarginal band of brownish suffusion, with four black specks oil 

 it near apex and two towards outer angle, or the series may be 

 more or less complete ; a marginal series of specks. Hind wing 



