256 PYRALUXS. 



4771. RMmphaleodes macrostigma, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 174,- 

 pi. 174, fig. 9. 



rf . "Whitish, slightly tinged with fuscous ; head and collar 

 fuscous ; abdomen ringed with fuscous. Fore wing with fuscous 



streak below base of costa ; 

 an oblique subbasal band 

 from median nervure to 

 inner margin ; a curved 

 antemedial line ; a small 

 quadrate black spot in cell 

 and large deep black rounded 

 Fig. IM.Rhimphakodes macrostigma, <$ . j. discocellular patch with 



small white specks near its 



upper edge ; the postmedial minutely waved line straight from 

 costa to vein 5, excurved between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to 

 below angle of cell and with an oblique line across its sinus ; the 

 outer area fuscous, its inner edge sinuous and only leaving a 

 narrow pale band beyond the postmedial line. Hind wing with 

 the veins near end of cell streaked with fuscous, the postmedial 

 line indistinct, minutely waved, very much bent outwards between 

 veins 5 and 2 and with a line across the sinus ; the apical area 

 fuscous, a series of spots inside the margin and a patch near anal 

 angle. 



Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus PYCNARMON. 



Pycnarmon, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 441. 

 Aripana, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii,p. 312 (1886). 



Type, P. jaguaralis, Guen. 



Range. Oriental and Australasian subregious. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled in front and 

 reaching vertex of head, the 3rd long and acuminate ; maxillary 

 palpi minute and filiform ; frons rounded ; tibiae with the outer 

 spurs about half the length of inner ; abdomen with lateral tufts 

 on terminal segments. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle 

 of cell ; 7 well separated from 8, 9, to which 10 is approximated. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell, which is short ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



SECT. I. (Pycnarmon). Antennae of male with the shaft thickened 

 to about one-third length, where there is a cleft fringed with 

 hair on each side. 



A. Antenna of male with a tuft of hair projecting from the upper 

 side of the cleft and diminishing teeth of scales beyond it for a 

 short distance. 



4772. Pycnarmon jaguaralis, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 283; C. $ S. 

 no. 4316. 



Pure white ; antennae fuscous ; fore tibiae spotted with black ; 



