HO PI-BALLON. 



Subfamily EPIPASCHIIN^E. 



Proboscis present ; palpi almost always upturned, and in males 

 often with the 2nd joint hollowed out to receive the brush-like 

 maxillary palpi, which are sometimes bilobed ; antennae of male 

 usually with a more or less developed thickly-scaled flagellate 

 process from basal joint extending backwards over the thorax. 

 Tore wing with tufts of raised scales below the cell and on disco- 

 cellulars; veins 7, 8, 9 stalked. Hind wing with the median 

 nervure non-pectinate ; vein 8 usually free. 



The larvaB of several species live in colonies in w r ebs and form 

 eocial cocoons. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Hind wing with vein 7 anastomosing 



with 8. 



a. Both wings with veins 4, 5 approximated 



for a short distance 2. LEPIDOGMA, p. 111. 



b. Both wings with veins 4, 5 stalked. ... 1. PABORTHAGA, p. 110. 



B. Hind wing with vein 8 free. 



a. Fore ancl hind wings with veins 4, 5 



approximated for about one-third 



length 3. MACALLA, p. 112. 



b. Fore and hind wings with veins 4, 5 



radiating from angle of cell. 

 a'. Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching 



well above vertex of head 6. STEBJCTA, p. 120. 



b'. Palpi with the 2nd joint hardly 



reaching vertex of head. 

 a 2 . Fore wing without antemedial 

 ridge of hair ; antennae of male 

 non-pectinate. 



a 3 . Tibiae nearly smoothly scaled . . 7. ORTHAGA, p. 124. 

 b 3 . Tibiae fringed with lone: hair . . 5. LOCASTRA, p. 118. 

 2 . Fore wing with antemedial ridge 

 of hair ; antennae of male pec- 

 tinate 4, CCENODOMUS, p. 116. 



Genus PARORTHAGA, nov. 



Type, P. euryptera, Meyr. 



Kange. Japan ; Bhutan ; Ceylon ; Sumbawa ; Australia. 



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

 well developed; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; antenna* 

 of male fasciculate; tibiae slightly hairy. Fore wing with vein ;J 

 approximated for a short distance to 4, 5, which are stalked; 

 6 from upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 free; male with a 

 glundular swelling on costa beyond middle. Hind wing \> ith vein 

 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 

 anastomosing with 8. 



