PACHTZANCLA. LOXONEPTEU V. 405 



5161. Pachyzancla aegrotalis, Zell K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1852, p. 38. 

 I'.otvs miifiialis, foil. f. c. p. 40; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 178, 



fig. 15 ; C. 8f S. no. 4334 (part.). 

 Botys verminalis, Guen. Ddt. fy Pyr. p. 348. 

 Botys admensalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 652 ; Hmpsn. III. Ilet. ix, 



pi. 173, fig. 10 ; C. $ S. no. 4083. 



Botys basalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1404 ; C. # 8. no. 4333. 

 Botys apertalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1450. 

 Acharana rudis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix, p. 435. 

 Acharana simplex, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix, p. 436. 

 Acharana subalbescens, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 147. 

 Pachyzancla honestalis, Warr. A.M.N. H. (6) xvii, p. 97. 

 Acharana subsenescens, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 113. 



S . Whitish with an ochreous tinge ; palpi fuscous, white below ; 

 abdomen with a pair of black spots on 3rd segment. Fore wing 

 with the costa fulvous and suffused with fuscous towards base ; a 

 black speck near base of inner margin ; an outwardly-oblique 

 sinuous antemedial line ; a prominent black speck in cell, and both 

 wings with a large discocellular spot and minutely dentate post- 

 medial line bent outwards between veins 4 and 2, along which it is 

 retracted to below end of cell ; the margin dark ; the marginal area 

 of fore wing and apical area of hind wing sometimes broadly 

 suffused with fuscous. 



2 more uniformly ochreous tinged with fulvous. 



The form rudis from Japan, China, and India is dark fuscous 

 in tone. 



Hah. W. & S. Africa ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Java. Exp. 22-30 millim. 



b. (Pachy/ancla). Patagia of male with a tuft of long hair and 

 scales extending beyond the metathorax. 



5162. Pachyzancla stultalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 669; C. $ S. 



no. 4334 (Dart.). 

 Botys basistrigalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1443. 



Differs from cegrotalis in being uniformly darkor and more 

 suffused with fuscous. Fore wing with the antemedial hue more 

 prominent ; the postmedial line of both wings with more or less 

 prominent pale outer edge. 



Hcib. China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans ; 

 Sumatra ; Java ; Borneo ; Celebes ; Australia. Exp. 22-28 millim. 



Genus LOXONEPTERA, nov. 



Type, L. carnealis, Hmpsn. 



Range. Sikhim ; Assam. 



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

 hair ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons produced to a flattened plate 

 with rounded edge; antenna of male minutely ciliated; tibi 

 with the outer spurs minute; mid tibia) of male dilated with a fold 

 containing a tuft of long hair; abdomen of male with very large 

 paired lateral tufts from just beyond middle. Fore wing of male 

 with fringe of long hair on base of inner margin, which is excised 

 towards outer angle and bears a curved tuft of hair ; vein 3 from 



