NOCTTJIDJE. 543 



2887 . Arseopterum fasciale, 



c? . Head and collar white ; palpi black ; thorax and abdomen 

 fuscous. Fore wing pale fuscous ; the costal area suffused with 

 white ; a dark mark with two white specks on it on costa before 

 apex ; an oblique white postmedial line and indistinct waved sub- 

 marginal line. Hind wing pale fuscous, with black-edged medial 

 band with whitish suffusion beyond it ; an indistinct submarginal 

 white line. 



Hob. Ceylon (Green). Exp. 12 rnillim. Type in B. M. 



Genus PTYORHYNCHA. 

 Ptyorhyncha, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 308. 



Type, P. argyresihis, Hmpsn. 



Range. Bhutan. 



$ . Palpi with the 2nd joint straight, oblique and fringed with 

 hair above, the 3rd upturned, with a very large tuft on inner side ; a 

 slight frontal tuft ; antennse of female nearly simple ; tibiae hairy. 

 Fore wing with the costa much arched ; the outer margin excised 

 below apex, produced to a hook at vein 4, then excised to outer 

 angle ; vein 8 given off from 7 and anastomosing with 9, which is 

 given off from 10 to form the areole. Hind wing with the anal 

 angle truncate; vein 5 from lower angle of cell. 



2895 a. Ptyorhyncha argyresthis, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, 

 p. 308. 



$ . Deep chestnut. Fore wing thickly covered with fine striae, 

 the basal two-thirds with a silvery sheen except the costal area and 

 a sinuous medial band, the outer edge of this area sinuous ; a patch 

 of bright silvery suffusion on outer area above middle connected 



Fig. 282. Ptyorhyncha argyresthis, 5 . |. 



with the outer angle by a sinuous band ; a marginal series of silvery 

 striae. Hind wing reddish brown suffused with fuscous, and with 

 numerous fine dark striae on outer area ; a marginal series of silver 

 specks ; cilia of both wings red at tips. 

 Hob. Bhutan. Encp. 66 millim. 



Vol. Ill, p. 68. Bead Ectogonia for Camptochilus (prseocc.). 



