1899.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PTRAUST1X.1E. 179 



joint fringed above and below with hair, the 3rd prominent ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; hind tibise with the outer 

 medial spur minute. Fore wing produced at apex, the outer 

 margin oblique ; veins 3, 5 from close to angle of cell ; 7 straight 

 and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with the cell short ; 

 the discocellulars produced along vein 4, which is approximated to 

 5 ; 6, 7 stalked, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



Sect. I. {Thliptoceras). Antenna of male with two curved teeth 

 on basal joint forming an upturned cavity, the basal part of 

 shaft cui'ved, then expanded into a cavity formed of short 

 appressed pectinations. 



Type. (l)tTnLiPTOCEEAS cascale Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 271, 



pi. S. f. 18. Japan ; India, Ceylon, & Burma. 



Thlip)toceras variaUlis Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 274 ; 



Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. pi. 156. ff. 2, 10. 

 Circobotys phycidalis Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 599. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male with the basal joint excised and with a 

 slight tuft of hair from inner side ; fore wing less produced at 

 apex, the costa highly arched before middle. Hind wing 

 with the inner area clothed with long hair; patagia extending 

 beyond metathorax. 



(2)*THLrPTOCEBAS STTGiALE Hmpsn, Moths of India, iv. p. 378. 



Assam. 



Sect. III. (Prophantis). Antennae of male ciliated. 



(3) Thliptoceras octogtjttale Eeld. Eels. Nov. pi. 135. f. 38. 



Natal ; Indian & Malayan subregions to Australia. 

 fPyralis smaragdina Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 411 (1875), 



(4)*Thliptoceeas distictalis, n. sp. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides, whitish below ; wings purplish brown. Pore 

 wing with two obliquely placed orange subbasal points and some 

 diifused orange on inner margin ; a white bar across end of cell 

 and spot below end ; the costa orange, with 6 or 7 black points 

 from above end of cell to the wedge-shaped subterminal band which 

 ends on vein 5 : termen and ciha orange with purplish points. 

 Hind wing with Bome diffused orange on basal area, and two spots 

 in cell conjoined to the whitish costal area ; a medial yellow 

 band narrowing to inner margin ; the termen and cilia orange. 



Eah. Katha, Burma. Exp. 28 mm. Type in Coll. Eothschild. 



(5)tTHLIPT0CEEAS C(ENOSTOLALIS, n. Sp. 



(S . Head and tegulae ochreous ; palpi black at sides, white below ; 



12* 



