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S ■ Head and thorax fuscous brown tinged with grey ; hind legs 

 whitish ; abdomen white, slightly tinged with brown. Forewing grey- 

 brown, the costal half paler ; a diffused pale rufous fascia in discal fold 

 from middle of cell to subterminalline; a black streak below basal half of cellj 

 orbicular represented by a black point above median nervure, the reniform 

 by a small fuscous spot at lower angle of cell slightly defined by white, 

 its upper part defined by slight black points ; a rather wedge-shaped 

 black subterminal spot in discal fold with traces of black points on the 

 veins from it to inner margin ; a terminal series of slight black strise. 

 Hindwing white with fine dark terminal line ; the underside with the 

 costal area and terminal area to vein 3 tinged with pale rufous. 



Habitat. — Teavancoke, Pirmad. Kvp. 30 mill. 



Sect. II. — Antennse of male ciliated. 



A. Forewing with the inner half pale to subterminal 



line . . . . . . . . . . microsticta . 



B. Forewing with the basal half of inner area conco- 



lorous . . . . . . . . . . suimarginalis , 



1793. Calamistis micbosticta. 

 19J:fi. Calamistis submarginalis. 



Genus Rabila. Type. 



i?rt/jt7ff, Wlk, xxxii., 507 (1865) frontalis. 



1591. Rabila frontalis. 



Genus Arenostola. Type. 



Arenostola, Hmpsn. Oat. Lep. Phal. B. M. ix., p. 281 (1910). phragmitidis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to 

 vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short, 

 porrect ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male 

 ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and hairlike scales, the prothorax with 

 slight spreading crest, the metathorax without crest ; tibite moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Forewing with the apex 

 somewhat produced and acute, the termen evenly curved and hardly 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 

 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing 

 with veins 3-4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolesaent from middle of discocellu- 

 lars ; 6*7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



1942i. Arenostola pkocera. 



Tapinostola procera., Stand. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 47 ; Hmpsn, 

 Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. ix, p. 286, pi. 143, f. 19 ; Stand, Cat, 

 Lep. pal., p. 189. 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with brown ; palpi and legs 

 brownish ; abdomen ochreous white tinged with brown. Forewing 

 ochreous white tinged with pale rufous and rather thickly irrorated with 



