THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 901 



fuscous brown, the veins slightly streaked with brown ; traces of a post- 

 medial series of dark points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; a terminal series of brown strise. Hindwing white tinged with 

 ochreous ; the underside with the costal area and terminal area to vein 

 2 irrorated with brown. 



Habitat. — W. Turkestan : E.Tukkestan; Mongolia; Kashmir, Numbra. 

 Ex-p. 30-34 mill. 



Genus Sphetta. Type. 



Sphetta, Wlk., xxxii., 457 (I860) . . . . . . . . apicalis, 



1585. Sphetta apicalis. 



Genus. Acrapex. Type. 



Acrapex, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii, p. 286 (1894) . . . . prisca. 



Acutipenna, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii, p. 287 (1894) . . acuminata. 



Sect. I. (^Acutipenna) — Antennse of male annulated and ciliated. 

 1954. Acrapex acuminata. 

 Sect. II. {Acrapex) — Antennee of male ciliated and not annulate. 



A. Forewing with hooked white mark above median 



nervure in lower extremity of cell . . . . haimilifera. 



B. Forewing without hooked white mark above me- 



dian nervure. 



a. Forewing with dark shade along median nervure. 

 a^. Forewing with pale streaks on the veins of 



costal area only . . . . . . brunnea. 



¥. Forewing with pale streaks on all the veins. 



«^. Head and tegulse black. . . . . . atriceps. 



v. Head and tegulse not black, 



a?. Forewing ochreous white tinged with 



fuscous brown . . . . . . leucophlebia. 



b^. Forewing pale pinkish rufous . . . . j'jj/'iscffl. 



b. Forewing without dark shade along median ner- 



vure . . . . . . . . . . roseotincta. 



1952. Acrapex hamulifera. 

 1952«. Acrapex brunnea. 



Acrapex brunnea, Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. ix., p. 318, pi. 

 144, f. 11 (1910). 

 Head and tegulae dark brown slightly mixed with ochreous; thorax 

 ochreous tinged with rufous ; pectus and legs ochreous mixed with brown ; 

 abdomen ochreous suffused with brown. Forewing ochreous, the costal area 

 suffused with red-brown leaving slight pale streaks on the veins ; a diffused 

 brown streak along median nervure and thence to the subterminal oblique 

 fascia, with two white points on it at lower angle of cell ; a slight brown 

 streak below base of cell ; an oblique pale fascia from apex to discal fold, 

 with a diffused brown fascia below it from termen below apex to vein 3, 



