1899,] OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTrN^.E. 215 



cell between veins 8 and 4 ; an oblique sinuous line of similar scales 

 from vein 5 near ternien to middle of inner marpiu, expanding 

 into a diffused patch below the cell ; cilia dark at base. Hind 

 wing yellowish white ; termen more ochreous. 

 Hah. Bathurst, Gambia {Carter). Exp. 24 mm. 



Genus 118. Antigastea. 



Antigastra Led. Wieu. Ent. Men. 1863, p. 419. 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; 

 maxillary palpi dilated with scales; frons flat and oblique; antennae 

 nearly as long as the fore wing and minutely ciliated ; legs long ; 

 fore femora and tibias of male fringed with long hair, the outer 

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

 towards apex, which is acute and produced ; veins 3, 4, 5 from 

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

 with the cell half the length of wing ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 

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



anastomosing with 8. 



Fiff. 118. 



Antigastra catalaunalis, (^ . \. (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



Type. (1) AxTiGASTBA w.TALAUNALis Dup. Lep. Fr. viii. p. 330, pi. 232. 



f. 8. Europe ; Syria ; Aden ; E. & W. Africa ; India. 



Botys venosalis Wlk. xxxiv. 140. Ceylon ; Burma ; Mexico. 



(2)tANTiGASTBA MOEYSALis Wlk. xviii. 641. jS'atal. 



fZebronia cranealis Wlk. xix. 970. 



Aucforum. 



Antigastra cinnamomalis Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, 

 p. 297. Madagascar. 



Genus 119. Liopasia. 



Liojpasia Moschl. Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxxi. p. 426 (1881). 



Terastiodes Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix. p. 298 (1892). 



Bichotis Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix. p. 392. 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; 

 maxillary palpi strongly dilated with scales ; frons oblique ; 

 antennae of male slightly ciliated; build stout: tibiae smoothly 

 staled, the outer spurs less than half the length of inner. Fore 

 wing long and narrow, the apex rectangular ; the outer margin 



