412 PTEALIDJE. 



scales ; frons flat and oblique ; antennae nearly as long as fore wing 

 and almost simple ; legs long and slender ; tibiae slightly fringed 

 with hair, the outer spurs about half the length of inner ; thorax of 

 male with a large downwardly directed tuft of flattened hair from 

 near origin of fore wing below ; abdomen long and slender. Fore 

 wing with the costa highly arched towards apex, which is somewhat 

 acute ; vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 somewhat approximated for 

 a short distance ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9, to which 10 

 also is approximated. Hind wing with the cell about half the 

 length of wing ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 approximated for a short 

 distance; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



5179. Lepidoneura longipalpis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 208. 



<$ . Head olive-brown, the vertex white ; frons with lateral 

 white lines; palpi white below; thorax and abdomen streaked 



white and olive-brown. Fore 

 wing white and thinly scaled; 

 the veins thickly scaled with 

 ochreous and olive-brown ; 

 the costa ochreous; an ob- 

 lique olive - brown streak 

 across end of cell; short 

 Fig. 223. Lepidoneura longipalpis^ . \. black streaks in interspaces 



of outer area, increasing in 



length to a long streak in interno-median interspace. Hind wing 

 semihyaline ; the veins of outer area thickly scaled with ochreous ; 

 a dark marginal line except towards anal angle* 

 Hob. Khasis. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus ANTIGASTRA. 



Antigastra, Led. Wien. ent. Mm. 1863, p. 419. 



Type, A. catalaunalis, Dup. 



Range. Europe ; E. & W. Africa ; India, Ceylon, and Burma. 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; 

 maxillary palpi dilated with scales ; frons flat and oblique ; 

 antennae nearly as long as the fore wing and minutely ciliated ; 

 legs long ; fore femora and tibiae of male fringed with long hair ; 

 the outer spurs half the length of inner. Fore wing with the 

 costa arched towards apex, which is acute and produced ; veins 3, 

 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing 

 with the cell half the length of wing ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 

 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 

 anastomosing with 8. 



5180. Antigastra catalaunalis, Dup. Lep. France, viii, p. 330, pi. 232, 



fig. 8 ; C. $ S. no. 4131. 

 Botys venosalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1401. 



Ochreous, the head and thorax suffused with fuscous ; frons with 



