PTEROPHORID.E AND TINEINA. 



By the RT. HONBLE. LORD WALSINGHAM, M.A., LL.D., High Steward 

 of the University of Cambridge, F.R.S., &c., and JOHN HARTLEY 

 DURRANT, F.E.S., Membre Soc. Ent. de France. 



PYRALIDINA. 



PTEBOPHOBIDJE. 



OXYPTILUS, Z. 

 OXYPTILUS, Z., Isis, 1841, 765. 



3620. Oxyptilus (?) wahlbergi, Z. 

 - rutilalis, Wkr. 6 



Pterophorus wahlbergi, Z., Hndl. Kngl. Svensk. Vet.-Ak. 1852, 117 1 . Oxyptilus 

 wahlbergi, Z., Lin. Ent. VI. 346-8 (1852) 2 ; Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. BM. XXX. 

 934 (i864) 3 . Pterophorus rutilalis, Wkr., Cat. Lp. Ins. BM. XXX. 943 (1864)*. 

 Oxyptilus wahlbergi, Wlsm., Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, 280-1 5 . 



Types, wahlbergi, Z., 9, Mus. Wlsm. ; rutilalis, Wkr., Mus. Br. 



Hab. AFRICA Cape Colony, Natal, Limpopo-Gariep 1 " 5 . INDIA 

 [Bangalore 5. IX. (Minckin), Dharmsala (Hocking). CEYLON 

 Nawalapitiya (Green), Pundaloya, XI (Green). Mus. Wlsm.] 



Mus. OXF. INDIA Ganjam, X. 1882 (Minchin) t one specimen. 

 [Wlsm. Det. 29 (1893).] 



The Indo-Ceylon specimens differ very slightly in colour, but not in 

 structure, from Oxyptilus wahlbergi, Z. (from South Africa), which is 

 not a true Oxyptilus. [Wlsm.] 



PLATYPTILIA, Hb. 

 PLATYPTILIA, Hb., Verz. bek. Schm. 429 (1826). 



3621. Platyptilia exaltata, Z. 



Pterophorus (Platyptilus) exaltatus, Z., Stett. Ent. Ztg. XXVIII. 41 1-2 (1867) l . 

 Platyptilia exaltata, Swinh. & Cotes, Cat. Moths Ind. 668, No. 4541 (1889) 2 . 



Type. Mus. Wlsm. 



Hab. INDIA Darjiling ! , Simla 2 , [Dharmsala (Hocking)', Kukti, 

 N. W. Himalayas (Leech}. Mus. Wlsm.] 

 Mus. OXF. ASSAM (Jenkins], one specimen. [Wlsm. Det. 186 (1893).] 



