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maxillary palpi filiform ; frons flat and oblique ; antennae of male 

 ciliated ; fore tibiae fringed with lon^ hair ; mid and hind tibiae 

 with the outer spurs about half the length of iuner ; abdomen of 

 male with lateral tufts on the last three segments, the anal 

 tuft long. Fore wing long and narrow, the eosta arched towards 

 apex, which is produced, the outer margin excurved at middle ; the 

 iuner margiu excised before the outer angle, which is lobed ; vein 3 

 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 somewhat approximated for a 

 short distance ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing 

 ample ; the costa highly excised before and after middle ; lobed at 

 middle and towards apex ; veins 4, 5 somewhat approximated for 

 a short distance ; the discocellulars erect ; veins 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 toucliing but not anastomosing with 8. 



Fig. 94. 



Terastia metictdosalis, (^ . \. (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



(1) Teeastia EGiAiEAiis Wlk. xvii. 383. Himalayas ; Java. 



„ procelalis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 416. 

 fAgaihodes cUversalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1307. 

 ■\-Megaphysa quadriferalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1628. 



Type. (2) Terastia meticulosalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 212. 



W. Indies ; Ceylon ; Java ; 

 „ suhjectalis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. Philippines. 



1863, p. 480. 

 ■\Megaphysa quadraiaUs Wlk. xxxiv. 1527. 

 Megasies cceligenalis Hulst, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 156. 



(3) Terastia margaeitis Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 136. f. 40. Natal. 



Genus 95. Megastes. 



Megastes Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 375 (1854). 



Palpi porrect, extending about the length of head, the 2nd joint 

 fringed with hair below, the 3rd prominent and thickly scaled ; 

 maxillary palpi triangularly dilated with scales ; frons rounded ; 

 antennffi of male bipectinate ; build stout ; tibiae with the outer 

 spurs about half the length of inner. Fore wing with the costa 

 hio-hly arched towards apex, which is somewhat produced ; the 

 inner margin excised before outer angle, which is hooked ; veins 3, 

 4. 5 from angle of cell ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9. Hind 

 wing with the cell half the length of wing ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 



