294 PYBA.LID.E. 



B. Mid and hind legs smoothly scaled ; hind wing normal. 



4861. Chalcidoptera appensalis, Snell Tijd. v.Ent. 1884, p. 41, pi. 3, 



fig. 12. 



c? . Greyish fuscous ; palpi with the base and 3rd joint white ; 

 frons whitish ; abdomen with white dorsal bands. Fore wing with 

 some whitish on base of costa and a black subbasal spot; an 

 antemedial black costal spot with slightly curved line outlined with 

 whitish from it to inner margin ; a speck in cell ; a large post- 

 medial black-outlined white lunule from costa to lower angle of 

 cell, with incurved line from it to inner margin. Hind wing with 

 fuscous discocellular line ; a postmedial line bent outwards between 

 Teins 5 and 2 and ending near anal angle. Both wings with 

 marginal dark line and line through the cilia, which are pale at 

 tips. Underside pale. 



Hob. Khasis ; Nagas ; Ceylon ; Eangoon ; Java. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus CAPRINIA. 



Caprinia, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 543 (1859). 

 Cydalima, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 397. 



Type, 0. periusalis, "Wlk., from Venezuela. 



Range. Venezuela ; throughout the Oriental region ; Australia. 



Differs from Glyphodes in the palpi being very broadly and 

 conically scaled, and hardly reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint 

 upturned. 



SECT. I. (Caprinia). Antennae of male normal; fore wing 

 with the apex rectangular, the outer margin erect. 



4862. Caprinia felderi, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 401, pi. 13, fig. 18. 

 Caprinia intermedia, Warr. A. M.N. H. (6) xvii, p. 100, 



d 1 . Head fuscous black ; thorax and abdomen white, the latter 

 with the extremity and anal tuft black. Pore wing pure white ; 

 the costal half fuscous black, with projections in cell and on 

 discocellulars ; the outer fourth of wing fuscous black ; a series of 

 three postmedial white specks from below costa to vein 5. Hind 

 wing pure white, with a discocellular speck and the apical area 



Hab. Khasis; Nagas ; Java; Amboina. Evp. 24-26 millim. 



SECT. II. Antennae of male with the base of shaft excised ; fore 

 wing with costal fold enclosing an expansile tuft of long hair. 



4863. Caprinia diaphanalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1365. 

 Botys margaronialis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1442. 

 Margaronia plumifera, Butl. A. M.N. H. (5) x, p. 236. 



rf . White ; the tip of palpi, frons, base of collar, and shoulders 

 fuscous ; legs fuscous above, the tarsi ringed with white. Pore 

 wing with fuscous streaks along basal two-thirds of costa and 



