Genera o/'Pyralidie. 475 



SCIORISTA. 



Allied to Stenophijes, Led., and Sameodes, Snell. 



Fore wings elongate ; costa decidedly convex before apex, 

 which is slightly produced : labial palpi large, porrect hori- 

 zontally, third joint undistinguishable ; maxillary small, 

 visible above the base of the labial : antennas filiform, slightly 

 pubescent in the male. Distinguished superficially by the 

 possession of all three stigmata, often metallic scaled, and a 

 complete dark marginal band. 



Type 8. signatalis^ Wlk. [Botys). 



Leucocraspeda. 



Fore wings pointed, subfalcate ; costa slightly concave 

 before apex ; hind margin bowed ; scaling fine, silky ; fringes 

 of both wings silky white. 



Mai'kings : two dark transverse lines, the second peculiarly 

 rounded externally ; two stigmata ill-defined, the reniform 

 crescent-shaped. 



In neuration and structure of palpi identical with Opsihoti/s. 



Type Leucocraspeda illectalisj Wlk. {Botys). 



Protonoceras. 



Distinguished by the form of the labial palpi ; these are 

 unusually long, obliquely porrected upwards ; the second 

 joint feathered beneath, three times as long as the head j ter- 

 minal joint about one third of the second, inclined forwards 

 and bluntly pointed, longer in the male than in the female. 



Maxillary palpi large, erect ; tongue and ocelli present. 

 Characterized additionally in the male, (1) by the antenna?, 

 of which the basal joint is inflated, and the shaft itself, at one 

 third from the base, slightly angulated and flattened ; (2) by 

 the presence on the head of three pointed tufts of scales, one 

 in the centre of the forehead in front between the antennte 

 and one behind each antenna. 



Type P. tropicalisj Wlk. {Botys). 



Hemiscopis. 



Labial palpi large, stout, porrect, much pointed in front; 

 maxillary porrect above the labial ; forehead with scales pro- 

 duced into a point ; ocelli and tongue present ; anteimaa lami- 

 nated. Fore wings with apex produced, but not acutely ; 

 hind margins of both wings rounded, rather bulging in the 



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