18 PYKALIDJE. 



Genus DIPTYCHOPHORA. 



Diptvchophora, Zell. Stettin, ent. Zeil. 1866, p. 153. 

 Uitomoptera, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 179 (1893). 



Type, D. kuhlweihii, Zell., from Brazil. 



liange. Neotropical, Oriental, and Australian regions. 



Palpi porrect, clothed with long hair and extending about the 

 length of head ; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled ; irons rounded ; 

 antennae of male somewhat thickened and flattened ; tibia? with 

 the spurs long and equal. Fore wing with the outer margin deeply 

 excised below apex and slightly below vein 5 ; vein 3 from near 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight and well separated from 

 8,9; 10 free; 11 free or becoming coincident with 12. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from well above angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle. 



4179. Diptychophora minutalis, Hmpm. III. Het. ix, p. 179, pi. 174, 



fig. 31. 



Diptychophora prsematurella, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 643 

 (nee Meyr.\ 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey and fulvous ; palpi yellowish. 

 Fore wing grey suffused with brown ; an indistinct curved ante- 

 medial line ; a yellowish-brown or bright yellow patch from costa 

 beyond middle embracing the blackish discocellular spot ; an 

 indistinct curved double subnmrginal line ; the apical area bright 

 yellow, with a white streak on it ; some yellow on margin and three 

 black spots below middle. Hind wing pale fuscous. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Bhutan ; Ceylon. Exp. 10 millim. 



4180. Diptychophora tripunctata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 226 ; C. $ S. 



no. 4681. 



d". Orange fulvous, irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with 

 traces of dark specks on middle of costa; the apex orange, with 

 a fuscous line across it and a white spot on it ; the margin orange, 

 uith three black spots at middle; cilia fuscous, black at base. 

 Hind wing yellowish white. 



Hub. Sikhim; Khasis. Exp. 16 rnillim. 



4181. Diptychophora euzonella, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen almost pure white. Fore win^ 

 \\liitc, the basal area irrorated with brown, forming a large patch 

 on basal part of costa and a subbasal patch below the cell; a 

 brown-edged bright fulvous antemedial band angled below costa; 

 tlir discal area prominently irrorated with black-brown ; two 

 oblique fulvous l';isria i across apex ; a fulvous marginal band 

 enclosing four black spots towards outer angle ; cilia silvery. 

 Hind \\iiiL, r white tingrd \\ith fuscous; the cilia white. 



llnl. Khusis. h\fi>. 14 inilliin. Types in coll. llothschild and 

 B.M. 



