1899.] 



OF THE SUBFAMILY PTEAUSTIS'^. 



Genus 103. Ceocidophora. 



191 



Crocidophom Led. Wien. Eut. Mon. 1863, p. 386. 



Stenophyes Led. Wien. Ent. Mou. 1863, p. 388. 



Circoboii/s Butl. El. Hat. iii. p. 77 (1879). 



Chohera Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 219 (1888). 



Tanaophysa Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix. p. 389 (1892). 



Mimocomma "Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi. p. 473 (1895). 



Monocrocis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi. p. 475. 



Polychorista Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 109 (1896). 



Palpi porrect and triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by 

 hair; maxillary palpi filiform; frons flat and oblique; antennae 

 of male nearly as long as the fore wing and minutely ciliated ; 

 hind tibiae with the outer spurs minute ; abdomen of male long, 

 the claspers and anal tuft large. Fore wing more or less produced 

 at apex, the outer margin oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with 

 the cell short ; veins 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 

 stalked, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



Crocidophora ptyophora, S ■ 



(Prom Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



Sect. I. {Polychorista). Antennae of male with a curved tooth of 

 scales from basal joint, the basal part of shaft slightly 

 thickened and contorted ; hind wing with the base of costa 

 expanded into a large folded lobe. 



(l)tCROGiDOPHOEA CALTATALis Swinb. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, 

 p. 275. Burma. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male slightly knotted and contorted afc 

 one-fifth from base. 



(2)tCROciDOPHOiiA EPiCEOCALis Swiub. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, 

 p. 275. S. India ; Burma. 



fCircobotys marginalis Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 133, pi. 155. 

 f. l(c?). 



Sect. III. {Mimocomma). Antennae of male with the base of 

 shaft excised and a tuft of hair beyond the excision. 



(3) Ceocidophora pultimargo Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi. 

 p. 473. N.E. India ; Burma. 



