104 PYBALID^E. 



of raised black scales from cell to inner margin ; a slight dark spot 

 in cell and discocellular lunule ; an indistinct minutely waved post- 

 medial line angled inwards on vein 7, excurved between veins 6 

 and 3, and terminating in a white spot. Hind wing uniform pale 

 fuscous and semihyaline. 



$ with less prominent olive band inside the medial line of fore 

 wing. 



Hab. Sikhim. Evp-, 6 24, $ 26 millim. 



4423. Ceroprepes pulvillella, Zell. Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 394, pi. ii, 



fig. 3 ; Rag. Mm. Phyc. p. 11, pi. iv, fig. 1 ; C. $ S. no. 4555. 



3. Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous brown, the thorax 

 suffused with fuscous. Pore wing rufous brown ; the basal area 

 to near middle purplish black, with brown streak below median 

 nervure ; large antemedial tufts of raised black scales from cell 

 to inner margin ; traces of a sinuous medial line with olive band 

 inside it, and of a minutely dentate and curved submarginal line ; 

 traces of a discocellular lunule and of slight streaks on the veins 

 beyond cell ; a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing 

 aniform pale semihyaline brown. 



$ with the suffusion on thorax and basal area of fore wing 

 pale fuscous ; a pale fascia on inner area of fore wing beyond the 

 postmedial line ; the patches of raised scales olive. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 28-30 millim. 



4424. Ceroprepes ophthalmicella, Chr. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. Ivi, 1, 



p. 49 ; Rag. Man. Phyc. p. 10, pi. iv, fig. 3. 



<j> . Brown irrorated with grey. Fore wing with conical dark- 

 edged antemedial brown stigma from subcostals to inner margin, 

 its apex bent inwards and traversed by a line, and with a ridge of 

 raised black scales on its inner edge ; an indistinct discocellular 

 lunule; a minutely dentate postmedial line angled at vein 4; a 

 marginal series of black specks. Hind wing pale brown and 

 semihyaline. 



Hal. Amur ; Murree. Rvp. 23-28 millim. 



Genus CRYPTOBLABES. 

 Cryptoblabes, Zell. lets, 1848, p. 644. 



Type, C. bistriga, Haw., from Europe. 



Range. Palaearctic, Oriental, and Australian regions. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 well developed ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; antennae 

 with the basal joint rather large, a slight tooth of scales on base 

 of shaft. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 from angle or shortly stalked; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with the 

 cell nearly half tin- length of wing; vein 3 from near angle; 4,^5- 

 from angle ; 6, 7 stalked, 7 strongly anastomosing with 8. 



