102 PYBALIDjE. 



SECT. I. Palpi of male with the 2nd joint triangular, immensely 

 dilated with curved scales and hardly reaching vertex of 

 head, the 3rd invisible ; maxillary palpi with a tuft of long 

 scales from extremity ; antennae with broad laminae, the shatt 

 not excised ; mid tibiae not dilated : fore wing of moderate 

 breadth, with no costal fold and flap of scales. 



4418. Spatnlipalpia effosella, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 20, pi. xviii, 

 fig. 2. 



rf. Ochreous brown irrorated with red-brown and fuscous. 

 Fore wing irrorated chiefly on the veins ; the costal area white 

 irrorated with brown, widest at middle and tapering to base and 

 apex ; a black streak at lower angle of cell. Hind wing yellowish 

 grey and semihyaline ; the cilia whitish. 



Hob. Upper Assam ; Tenasserim. Exp. 21 millim. 



SECT. II. Palpi of male with the 2nd joint cylindrical and reaching 

 vertex of head, the 3rd fringed with long curved scales forming 

 a hollow ; maxillary palpi minute and filiform ; antennae with 

 the shaft excised near base behind, then thickened by a ridge 

 of scales behind and with a tooth of scales in front; mid 

 tibiae immensely dilated with a fold containing a tuft of long 

 hair, the extremity with tuft on outer side ; fore wing very 

 narrow, with a large fold at base of costa on upperside and a 

 fan of scales covering the end of the cell. 



4419. Spatulipalpia flabellifera, n. sp. 



Bed-brown irrorated with ochreous and fuscous ; head variegated 

 with white, the hollow on vertex black, the fringe on 3rd joint of 



Fig. 59. Spatulipalpia flabellifera, $ . 1 . 



palpi edged with black and the hollow black ; anal tuft ochreous 

 white. Fore wing with the ochreous scales forming pale streaks ; a 

 prominent black streak in end of cell and slight streaks in the 

 interspaces below and beyond end of cell ; traces of a pale sub- 

 marginal line ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing very 

 pale fuscous and semihyaline. 



Hob. Ceylon (Green). Exp. 20 millim. Type in B. M. 



