ANCYLOLOMIA. 33 



Genus ANCYLOLOMIA. 



Ancylolomia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 363 (? 1818). 

 Jartheza, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 183 (1863). 



Type, A. tentaculella, Hiibn., from Europe. 



Range. Argentina ; Mediterranean subregion ; Ethiopian and 

 Oriental regions ; Australia. 



Palpi porrect, thickly clothed with hair, and extending about 

 three times the length of head ; maxillary palpi triangularly- 

 scaled ; frons oblique ; abdomen long ; tibiae with the outer spurs 

 about two-thirds length of inner. Fore wing long and narrow ; 

 the apex produced ; the outer margin excised below apex, then 

 excurved ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 

 free ; 11 becoming coincident with 12. Hind wing with vein 3 

 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle or stalked ; 6 from 

 above middle of discocellulars and obsolescent; 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



SECT. I. Antennae of male with short uniseriate laminated 

 branches ; of female simple. 



4223. Ancylolomia chrysographella, Kott. HugeVs Kaschmir. iv. 



p. 494 ; C.$S. no. 4712. 



Ancylolomia capensis, Zell. Mon. Chil. Sf Cramb. p. 11. 

 Ancylolomia taprobanensis, ZelL Hor. Ent. Ross. 1877, p. 25, 



pi. 1, fig. 8 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 184, figs. 2, 2 a ; C. $ S. 



no. 4710. 

 Ancylolomia indica, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 137, fig. 19; C. fy 8. 



no. 4714. 

 Ancylolomia argentata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 382, pi. 184, fig. 3 ; 



C. $ S. no. 4708. 



Brownish ochreous. Fore wing with silvery and yellow 

 fasciae, with streaks of black scales on them in cell and the inter- 



spaces beyond and below 

 it; a minutely dentate 

 submarginal silvery line 

 with a more prominent 

 tooth at vein 3 ; a whitish 

 marginal band with a series 

 of dark specks on it ; the 

 cilia silvery. Hind wing 



. 21. whitish, pale fuscous, or 



AncyMwma chrysographella, <J. |. 



taprobanensis, which is more common in the South. 



The fore wing may have a white fascia developed on median 

 nervure. 



Hob. S. Africa ; Aden ; Japan ; China ; Formosa ; throughout 

 India, Ceylon, and Burma; Penang. Exp., 6 20-30, $ 30- 

 40 millim. 



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