NOSOPHOKA. CHALCIDOPTEBA. 291 



4854. Nosophora semitritalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 407, 



pi. 14, fig. 14. 



Differs from altliealis in the fore wing having a well-defined 

 obliquely sinuous antemedial line ; the medial line below cell 

 waved ; no fuscous on costa or spot in cell ; the postmedial patch 

 expanding towards costa, both its inner and outer edges indented, 

 its lower part small and angled inwards. Hind wing with the 

 spot beyond the cell subquadrate and conjoined to a large white 

 costal patch. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Pulo Laut ; Amboina. Exp. 30 millim. 



b. Fore wing of male with tufts of rough hair in middle and end 

 of cell below. 



4855. Nosophora albiguttalis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 273, 



pi. viii, fig. 14. 



cf. Black; abdomen below white. Fore wing with a large 

 silvery-white lunule beyond the cell, extending from vein 7 to 2. 

 Hab. Rangoon. Eoop. 30 millim. 



4856. Nosophora scotaula, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 459. 



c? . Uniform black-brown with a slight cupreous tinge ; pectus 

 and abdomen below whitish. 



Hab. Tenasserim ; Singapore; Pulo Laut. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus CHALCIDOPTERA. 



Chalcidoptera, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xx, p. 119 (1887). 

 Euthalantha, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxxviii, p. 144 (1895). 

 Gnamptorhiza, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 135 (1896). 



Type, C. crinipes, Feld. 



Range. N.W. Himalayas ; Assam ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Borneo ; 

 Amboina; Solomons. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and 

 slightly fringed in front, the 3rd well developed with a small 

 triangular tuft in front ; maxillary palpi small and filiform ; frons 

 rounded ; antennae of male ciliated. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 

 well separated at origin ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9, 

 to which 10 is approximated. Hind wing with the cell about half 

 the length of wing ; 3 from angle ; 4, 5 somewhat approximated 

 for a short distance; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing 

 strongly with 8. 



SECT. I. Antennas of male with the shaft knotted at one-third from 

 base, then excised, gradually thickened and clothed on upper 

 side with rough scales ; abdomen with a large bilobed corneous 

 valve on underside from base covering the spiracles. 



4857. Chalcidoptera straminalis, Guen. Delt. $Pyr. p. 200; C # S. 



no. 4302. 

 Synclera nemoralis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1889, p. 421, pi. 44, fig. 6. 



c? . Yellowish white slightly irrorated with ferruginous; abdomen 



