ISOCENTBIS. CROCIDOPHOEA. 387 



5109. Isocentris opheltesalis, wik. Cat. xix, p. 1010; C. & S. 



no. 4345 (part.). 



Hedylepta contubernalis. Moore. Lev. Atk. p. 208; C. & S. 

 no. 4342. 



Orange-yellow ; fore tarsi banded with white. Pore wing with 

 curved antemedial line ; a postmedial line outwardly-oblique from 

 costa to vein 5, then ex curved to vein 2, along which it is retracted 

 and sinuous to inner margin. Hind wing with a minutely waved 

 postmedial line bent outwards between veins 5 and 2 ; both wings 

 with the cilia black at base, pure white at tips. 



Hob. Punjab ; Pareshnath ; Moulmein ; Nilgiris. Exp. 22 millim. 



5110. Isocentris illectalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 658: Hmpsn. III. Het. 



ix, pi. 173, fig. 9 ; C.$ & no. 4345 (part.) 

 Botys albofimbrialis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxvi, p. 128. 

 Botys niveicilialis, Snell. Midd.-Sum., iv, Lep. p. 64. 



$ . Differs from opheltesalis in being fulvous. Pore wing with 

 a discocellular line ; both wings with a minutely waved submar- 

 ginal line. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nagas ; Ceylon ; Eangoon ; Shan States ; 

 Borneo ; Celebes. Exp. 24 millim. 



5111. Isocentris miniosalis, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 362. 

 Ebulea europsalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 749 ; C. fy S. no. 4134. 

 Ebulea orseisalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 749. 



Crimson. Pore wing with a deeper crimson basal patch ; a 

 curved deep crimson antemedial line ; a discocellular spot ; both 

 wings with a postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 6, then 

 highly excurved to vein 3, where it is retracted ; a curved sub- 

 marginal line ; the veins near margin and a marginal line deep 

 crimson ; cilia whitish at tips. 



Hob. 'N. India'; Mlgiris; Eangoon; Ceylon; Shan States. 

 Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus CROCIDOPHORA. 



Crocidophora, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 386. 

 Circobotys, Butl. 111. Het. iii, p. 77 (1879). 

 Chobera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 219 (1888). 

 Mimocomma, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 473 (1895). 

 Monocrocis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 475. 

 Polychorista, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 109 (1896). 



Type, C. tuber culalis, Led., from N. America. 



Range. N. America; W. Africa; Japan; Oriental region and 

 Australasian subregion. 



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

 hair; maxillary palpi filiform; frons flat and oblique; antennae of 

 male four-fifths length of fore wing and minutely ciliated ; hind 

 tibiae with the outer spurs minute ; abdomen of male long, the 

 daspers and anal tuft large. Fore wing more or less produced at 



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