.380 PYRAMID. 



SECT. II. (Archernis). Antennae of male normal. 



5091. Archernis humilis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 146. 



c? . Grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown ; palpi 

 white below. Pore wing with indistinct oblique slightly sinuous 

 dark antemedial line ; an indistinct dark discocellular speck ; both 

 wings with a dark postmedial line slightly excurved below costa 

 and more so between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below end of 

 cell ; a marginal series of dark specks and dark line through the 

 cilia. Underside grey, with the marginal line reduced to specks. 



Hob. Khasis ; Nagas. Exp. 20 millim. 



5092. Archernis nictitans, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 146. 



c? . Ochreous grey-brown ; palpi white below ; frons white. 

 Fore wing with white discocellular spot with black marks on each 

 side of it; both wings with a minutely dentate postmedial line 

 bent outwards between veins 5 and 2 ; a marginal series of dark 

 specks and fine pale line at base of cilia. Underside whitish, with 

 discocellular black specks ; the postmedial line reduced to specks. 

 Hob. Khasis. Exp. 20 millim. 



5093. Archernis obliquialis, n. sp. 



<5" . Pale ochreous and brown. Fore wing reddish brown irrorated 

 with black ; the costal and inner areas pale ochreous ; a pale 

 ochreous oblique subbasal wedge-shaped band below the cell and an 

 oblique antemedial band ; two oblique lines from apex diverging 

 towards inner margin and a marginal line ; two fine black lines 

 through the cilia. Hind wing fuscous, pale at base and with traces 

 of pale postmedial line. 



Hob. Sikhirn (Pilcher}. Exp. 16 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus TERASTIA. 

 Terastia, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 211 (1854). 



Type, T. meticulosalis, Guen. 



Range. Neotropical and Oriental regions. 



Palpi porrect and triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by 

 hair ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons flat ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 fore tibiae fringed with long hair ; mid and hind tibiae with the 

 outer spurs about half the length of the inner ; abdomen of male 

 with lateral tufts on the last three segments, the anal tuft long. 

 Fore wing long and narrow ; the costa arched towards apex, 

 which is produced ; the outer margin excurved at middle ; the 

 inner margin excised before outer angle, which is lobed ; vein 3 

 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 somewhat approximated for a 

 short distance ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing 

 ample ; the costa highly excised before and after middle, lobed at 



