TBICHOPTERYX. MICEOLOBA. 405 



3801. Trichopteryx macularia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 653 ; C. $ 8. 



no. 3753. 

 Amathia rivularis, Warr. P. Z. 8. 1893, p. 363, pi. 31, fig. 16. 



$ . Brownish ochreous ; head and thorax slightly irrorated with 

 black. Fore wing with subbasal, antemedial, medial, postmedial, 

 and submarginal bands formed of somewhat ill-defined waved black 

 lines interrupted below costa ; the outer area suffused with olive- 

 green, the veins being speckled with black. Hind wing whitish ; 

 both wings with marginal black line. 



Hob. Sikhim, 7500 feet. Exp. 36 millim. 



SECT. II. Male with vein 8 of hind wing anastomosing with 7 to 

 near end of cell. 



3802. Trichopteryx viretata, Hiibn. Samml eur. Schmett., Geom. 

 fig. 230. 



Head and thorax dark olive-green ; palpi blackish ; antenna 

 ringed with black ; abdomen fuscous. Fore wing dark olive-green ; 

 traces of numerous waved dark lines ; some fuscous suffusion in 

 end of cell, iriterno-median interspace, and between veins 2 and 3 

 and 4 and 6; a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing 

 fuscous. 



Hob. Europe ; Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 28 milliin. 



Genus MICROLOBA, nov. 



Tyloptera, Christ, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. Iv, (2) p. 114 (1880), 

 praeocc. 



Type, M. bella, Butl. 



Range. Amur ; Japan ; Sikhim. 



Palpi hairy and not reaching beyond the frons, which is rounded : 

 antennae bipectinated to three-fourths length in both sexes, the 

 branches longer in the male than the female. Fore wing ample ; 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6 

 from below angle of cell ; 11 anastomosing with 7, 8, 9, 10 to form a 

 small areole. Hind wing small ; male with the inner area reduced 

 to a small hair-fringed lobe at base ; vein 2 terminating on inner 

 margin : 3 from near angle of cell running to anal angle ; the 

 discocellulars angled and vein 5 absent ; 6 from far below upper 

 angle of cell ; 8 anastomosing with 7 to near end of cell ; female 

 with the inner area not aborted ; vein 5 from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 stalked. 



3803. Microloba bella, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i, p. 448; id. Ill Het 



iii, pi. 54, fig. 10. 

 Tyloptera eburneata, Christ, Bull Soc. Nat. Mosc. Iv, (2) p. 116. 



White ; the vertex of head fuscous and fulvous ; the base and 



