410 



5174. Phlyctaenodes crocalis, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii, p. 131, pi. 154 f 



fig. 7. 



<$ . Bright orange-yellow ; head and femora fulvous, the fore 

 tibiae banded fulvous and white ; palpi white below. Fore wing 

 with the basal half of costa fulvous ; an erect slightly sinuous 

 antemedial fulvous line ; a speck in cell and striga at end of it ; an 

 obscure postmedial dentate line highly excurved from veins 5 to 2, 

 then bent inwards. Hind wing with dentate postmedial line 

 excurved from vein 6 to 2, where it is bent inwards. 



Bab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 30 millim. 



5175. Phlyctaenodes perbonalis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 272, 



pi. 8, fig. 17. 



$ . .Rufous brown ; head and collar fuscous. Fore wing with 

 the costal area fuscous, with a series of dark specks on it ; an 

 indistinct antemedial sinuous line ; a grey and fuscous spot in cell 

 and lunule at end of it; an oblique postmedial line slightly 

 excurved between veins 5 and 2 ; a waved submarginal line ; a 

 series of indistinct dark marks just inside the margin, one above 

 the outer angle being largest. Hind wing with oblique nearly 

 straight ante- and postmedial and curved submarginal lines almost 

 meeting near anal angle ; fuscous patches at apex and anal angle, 

 and a series of obscure dark marks just inside the margin. 



Hob. Eangoon. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus DIASEMIA. 

 Diasemia, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 233 (1854). 



Type, D. littemta, Scop. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



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

 hair ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales ; frons rounded ; antenna 

 annulated and ciliated, in male minutely serrate ; tibiaD with the 

 spurs lo^g and even. Fore wing long and narrow ; veins 3, 4, 5 

 from angle of cell; 7 well separated from 8, 9, to which 10 is 

 approximated. Hind wing with the outer margin excised below 

 apex ; the cell short ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



5176. Diasemia litterata, Scop. Ent. Corn. p. 229. 

 Phalaona argentalis, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, 2, p. iMO. 

 Isopteryx iinpulsalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 404 ; C. $ 8. no. 4368. 



Brown and fulvous black ; palpi white below at base ; abdomen 

 ringed with white. Fore wing with white antemedial band from 

 median nervure to inner margin ; a spot in end of cell conjoined to 

 a triangular patch with dark lines on it below the cell ; a post- 

 medial white line from costa to vein 2, more or less angled inwards 

 at vein 5 and with a spot inside it above vein 5 ; a series of small 

 dentate dark marks on the margin ; the cilia intersected with 



