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Genus PHLYCTJENODES. 



Phlyctaenodes, Guen. Delt. # Pyr. p. 173 (1854). 

 Loxostege, Hubn. Verz. p. 352 (? 1818), non descr. 

 Spilodes, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 379. 

 Dosara, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 828 (1859). 

 Eurycreon, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 376. 



Type, P. pustulalis, Hubn., from Europe. 



Range. The tropical and temperate zones. 



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

 hair ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons with a sharp conical promi- 

 nence ; antennae of male almost simple ; legs smoothly scaled. Fore 

 wing with the costa arched towards apex ; vein 3 from near angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 from angle. Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle 

 of cell ; 4, 5 from the angle and more or less approximated ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



SECT. I. Hind tibiae of male with the outer spurs one-half to 

 three-fourths length of the inner. 



5165. Phlyctaenodes nubilalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 132, pi. 154, 



fig. 12. 



Fuscous b-owii ; palpi white below ; abdomen ringed with white. 

 Fore wing with indistinct sinuous ante- and postmedial lines, the 

 latter highly excurved from vein 5 to 2, along which it is sharply 

 retracted to near median nervure ; very indistinct dark ocelli in 

 cell and on discocellulars. Hind wing with dark spot on disco- 

 cellulars ; an indistinct postmedial line highly excurved from 

 vein 5 to 2, where it is sharply retracted ; both wings with a 

 marginal series of dark spots. 



Hab. Nilgiri plateau. Eocp. 22 millim. 



5166. Phlyctaenodes sticticalis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 883 ; Dup. 



Lep. Fr. viii, pi. 215, fig. 5 ; C. $ S. no. 4146. 



Fuscous brown with a rufous tinge ; palpi white below. Fore 

 wing with grey streaks in, beyond, and below cell ; a quadrate 

 whitish spot in end of cell between the oblique orbicular and 

 reniform stigmata, which are obscure ; an irregular and minutely 

 dentate postmedial dark line angled inwards below cell ; a yellow 

 marginal line expanding at vein 6.- Hind wing more fuscous, with 

 indistinct sinuous dark postmedial line with pale outer edge ; cilia 

 of both wings leaden grey. Underside pale ochreous, with the 

 stigmata of fore wing prominently dark and postmedial and 

 submarginal lines prominent on both wings. 



Hab. N. America ; Europe ; Quetta. Eocp. 24 millim. 



5167. Phlyctaenodes nudalis, Hilbn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr' 



fig. 90. 



Pyralis interpunctalis, Hubn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. fig. 128 \ 

 C. & S. no. 4175. 



