PAEORTHAGA . LEPI DOGMA. 



Ill 



4436. Parorthaga euryptera, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 476. 



Grey slightly suffused with olive-brown or green ; male with 



the anal tuft fuscous. Fore 

 wing slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous and with rather in- 

 distinct sinuous medial and 

 postmedial waved lines; the 

 outer area fuscous brown 

 almost to the postmedial line. 



Yig.tt.-Parorthaga euryptera, 



^ind wing whitish or pale 

 fuscous, with indistinct curved 



postmedial line and the outer area suffused with fuscous. 



Hob. Japan ; Bhutan ; Ceylon ; Sumbawa. Exp. 18 millim. 



Genus LEPIDOGMA. 

 Lepidogma, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 472. 



Type, L. tamaricialis, Mann., from the Mediterranean subregion. 



Eange. Southern Europe ; Central Asia ; Bhutan ; Sind. 



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

 of moderate length ; maxillary palpi minute ; antennas of male 

 fasciculate, with a large tuft of scales from apex of basal joint ; 

 mid and hind tibiae with the outer terminal spur short. Fore 

 wing narrow, the costa straight ; vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4 and 

 5 approximated for one-third length; 7, 8 stalked; 10, 11 free. 

 Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4 and 5 

 approximated for half their length ; 6, 7 on a short stalk, 7 

 anastomosing with 8. 



SECT. I. Fore wing with vein 9 coincident with 8. 



4437. Lepidogma obatralis, Christ. Hor. Ent. Ross. 1876, xii, p. 264, 



pi. 7, tig. 36. 



Hypotia vafera, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 523, pi. 48, fig. 8 ; C. fy S. 

 no. 4521. 



Grey, suffused with brown and irrorated with black. Fore wing 



with black basal spot on costa 

 and speck in base of cell ; an 

 antemedial white band slightly 

 angled on median nervure ; 

 traces of a diffused dark 

 oblique medial band from 

 lower angle of cell to inner 



margin ; a speck on disco- 

 Fig. 66. Lepidoqma obatrahs, 3. \. ^ ,. , 



cellulars ; a white postmedial 



line with dark inner edge and much bent outwards between veins 

 2 and 5. Hind wing white ; the apical area fuscous ; a white 



