1899.] OF THE SUBFAMILT FTUAUSTIK^. 253 



Sect. I. (Gi/ptitia). Antennae of male with a small tooth on inner 

 side ot 3rd joint ; hind wing with the bases of vein 1 c and 

 median nervure fringed with long hair below. 



(l)tPjrEAUSTA ocHEACEALis Wlk. xxxiv. 1446. Assam ; Ceylon ; 



Burma ; Java ; Celebes. 

 Gyptitia gonialis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent, 1883, p. 138, pi. 8. 

 £. 9 a, b. 

 fHapalia denticulosa Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 337, pi. 183. 

 f. 8. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male with a tuft of hair on inner side 

 of basal joint ; the base of shaft excised, flattened and 

 contorted. 



(2)*Pteausta toeeidalis Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 443. Assam. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male normal. 



A. Fore legs of male with thick tufts of fawn-coloured hair 



from base of coxae and v\ hite hair from their extremities ; 

 mid legs with large tufts of black and white spatulate 

 hair from coxae, the tibiae clothed m ith rough hair. 



(3)tPxEAUSTA BAMBFCiTOEA Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 224. 



India ; Ceylon. 

 fNascia arenalis Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 163, pi. 173. f. 29. 



(4)tPYEAUSTA ciTBiNALis Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix. p. 302 ( $ ). 



N.W. Hin)alayas, 



B. Hind tibiae of male with the outer medial spur minute. 

 a. Fore wing of male with large fovea below the cell. 



(5) Pteausta xabtthothtsana, n. sp. 



Eeddish brown with a cupreous tinge ; palpi below, front of 

 pectus, and mid tibiae and tarsi white, fore tibiae with white bands. 

 Pore wing with oblique sinuous dark antemedial line ; a speck in 

 cell and discocellular lunule; a highly dentate postmedial line 

 slightly bent outwards between veins 7 and 2, then retracted ; 

 a terminal series of black points ; the cilia yellow. Hind wing 

 with minutely dentate postmedial line ; a terminal series of points, 

 becoming a line towards tornus ; cilia yellow. 



Hah. Sikhim. Exp. 36 mm. Tvpes in Coll. Eothschild and 

 B.M. 



h. (Placosaris). Fore wing of male with scale-fans below 

 median nervure on upper and under sides. 



(6)tPTEAUSTA LEUOULA Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1897, p. 89 



Sangir. 



