108 PYEALID^E. 



*4433. Tephris ephippella, Rag. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. ccxiii j 

 id. Mon. Phyc. p. 450, pi. vi, fig. 17. 



c? . Head and thorax ochreous ; abdomen irrorated with black. 

 Fore wing steel-grey ; the basal area suffused with black ; the 

 veins paler ; the inner area darker ; a pale antemedial line, oblique 

 towards costa, angled on vein 1, where there is a reddish-brown 

 patch ; a pale postmedial oblique line defined by fuscous, toothed 

 at vein 5 and with a black patch on costa beyond it ; an irregular 

 black line on median nervure and two black discocellular specks ; 

 a marginal series of specks. Hind wing semihyaline iridescent 

 white; the costa blackish; a blackish marginal line and line 

 through the cilia. Underside of fore wing with a streak of black 

 scales below base of costa. 



Hab. Shan States. Exp. 24 milliin. 



Genus ETIELLA. 



Etiella, Zell. /, 1846, p. 733. 

 Mella, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 1017 (1859). 

 Assara, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 79 (1863). 

 Modiana, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 82. 

 Alata, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 108. 

 Arucha, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 201. 



Type, E. zinckenella, Treit. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi porrect, thickly scaled, and extending about twice the length 

 of head, the 2nd joint in male hollowed out and containingthe brush- 

 like maxillary palpi ; frons with a conical prominence ; antennae 

 of male with a sinus at base containing a thick ridge of large 

 scales enclosing a hollow. Fore wing long and narrow ; veins 2, 

 3, 4, 5 from close to angle of cell, but all well separated at origin ; 

 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from near angle of cell; 3 

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



SECT. I. Antennae of male ciliated, the sinus and vesicular 

 tuft of moderate size. 



4434. Etiella zinckenella, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix, 1, p. 201 ; Ray 



Mon. Phyc. p. 572 ; C. # S. no. 4601. 



Phvcis etiella, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. x, 3, pp. 174, 276. 

 Chilo majorellus, Costa, Faun, Nap. no. 19, pi. 8, fig. 1, p. 3. 

 Chilo colonellus. Costa, Faun. Nap. no. 15, pi. 8, fig. 2, p. 7. 

 Mella dvmnusalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 1018. 

 Rhamphodtis heraldella, Guen. MaiU. Faun. Isle de Rhinion^ ii, G, 



p. 7-2. 



Assara albicostalis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 108. 

 M< diana scitivitt.-.lis, /17/c. Cat. xxvii, p. 83. 

 Alata antirlis, Wlk. Cut. xxvii, p. 108. 

 Arucha indicatalis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 202. 

 Alata hastiferella, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1725. 

 Crambus eabulinus, Butl. A.M.N. H. (5) iv, p. 455. 



