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antennffi of male minutely ciliated and considerably longer than 

 fore wing, of female about the length of fore wing ; fore and mid 

 tibiffi of male fringed with hair on outer side, the thorax with tufts 

 of hair below near mid legs ; abdomen of male with the anal tuft 

 long. Fore 'w-ing with the apex produced, the outer margin oblique ; 

 vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight and 

 well separated from 8, 9, to which 10 is approximated. Hind wing 

 with the cell short, especially in male ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 

 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 ana- 

 stomosing with 8 ; 6 in male curved downwards. 



Type. tTETurDiA caxetoeaxis Wlk. xviii. 651, N.E. India : Ceylon ; 



Burma ; Malayan subregion. 

 Botys pJuennisalis Wlk. xviii. 684. 

 + „ vinacealis Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 619. 

 Polyihlipta albicaudalis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 221, & 

 1883, pi. 8. f. 7. 



Genus 107. Poltghammodes. 



Polygrammodes Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 318 (1854). 



Pachynoa Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 391. 



Aphytoceros Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 320. 



Pitacanda Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 334 (1887). 



Palpi porrect, dilated with scales above and enclosing a hollow 

 in male, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; maxillary palpi minute and 

 filiform ; proboscis somewhat aborted ; frons rounded ; build stout ; 

 fore tibiEe and tarsi usually fringed with hair : mid tibiae fringed 

 with hair ; hind tibiae with a tuft of hair on outer side near base ; 

 the spurs rather short. Pore wing produced at apex, the outer 

 margin oblique, the inner margin lobed at middle ; vein 1 a forming 

 a fork with 1 6 ; 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for a 

 short distance ; 7 curved and closely approximated to 8, 9, to which 

 10 also is approximated. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



Pig. 107. 



Polygrammodes tkoosalis, ^ . }. (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 

 Sect. I. Antennas of male bipectinate, with long branches. 



(1)*P0LTGBAMM0DE8 IKEEULALIS "Wlk. xix. 1000. Bomeo. 



