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corneous process in it from veins 7-8, which are much curved round the 

 fovea at base. 



1534. h. Melanogiiaphia tympanistis, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep.Phal. P.. M., IT,, 

 p. 49 (1900). Dudgeon, J. Bomb. N.H, Soc. 1899, pi. II. f. 22 



^. Head and thorax white ; palpi and 

 lower part of frons deep-bhick ; legs 

 black, grey, and white ; abdomen fus- 

 cous with segmental white lines, 

 Forewing white from costa near base 

 to tornus ; the apical half brown 

 Melanographia tympanistis $ |. irrorated with black with rufts of 

 leaden scales on its inner edge ;some tufts of black and leaden scales on costal 

 area above end of cell ; a small triangular blackish patch on inner margin 

 beyond middle ; some dark marks forming traces of an irregular postmedial 

 line ■ a subtermenial line retracted to costa, angled at veins 6 and 4, and 

 obsolete towards inner margin, Hindwing fuscous, the inner area whitish. 

 EaUtat-^\kh.iva, 1800'. Exp. 20 mill. 



Sect II. Frons smooth ; antennae without tuft 

 on basal joint ; forewing with veins 3 from 

 near angle of cell \Jd?)^f. flexilineata. 



Genus Dialithoptera, 



Type. 

 Dialithoptera, Hmpsn., Cat, Lep, Phal. B,M., II. p. 50 



ngOO) 15455, gemmata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, extending about the length of head, 



the 2nd joint roughly scaled above and 



below, the 8rd minute ; frons with tuft of 



scales ; antennae bipectinate in both sexes, 



the aoical fourth serrate, the basal joint 



with tuft of scales ; tibiae with the spurs 



long, Forewing with vein 3 from close to 



Dialithoptera gemmata $ |, angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle 5 



6 from below upper angle ; 7-8 and 10 stalked ; 9 absent ; male with a fovea 



covered on upperside by a scale flap above base of vein 10; 11 oblique. 



Hindwing with veins 3-4 stalked from angle of cell ; 5 from near middle of 



discocellulara ; 6-7 from upper angle ; 8 from middle of cell. 



Genus Eceselia. Type. 



ZZcesflZm, Hiibn., Verz, p. 397 (1827) togatulalis. 



Sarhena, Wlk., Journ, Linn. Soc. Zool, VI., p. 137 (1862) . Ugnifera. 



Mimerastria, Butl.,A.M, N. H. (5), VII., p. 236 (1881) mandschuriana 



Collinola, Butl., 111. Het., VII., p. 33 (1889) scripta. 



Proneca, Swinh., Trans. Ent. Soc,. 1890, p, 193 fola. 



C2/ij/ioi!oiJs?/c/ie, Hmpsai,, Trans.Ent. Soc,, 1895, p. 297 Ugnifera. . - 



