604 SIR G. K. HA.MPSON — REVISION OF MOTHS [NoV. 15, 



P. Hind wing with vein 5 absent, coiunident 

 with 4 ; 7 becoming coincident with 8 ; 

 antennfe annulate 159. Stenoptycha. 



c^. Hind wing with vein 5 from middle of 

 discocellulars, 7 becoming coincident 

 with 8 ; palpi about three times length 



of head ; antenna? annulate 161. Tineodes, 



h^. Fore wing with veins 8, 9 fi-orn cell. 



a'. Frons with pointed conical prominence ; 

 hind wing with vein 5 from above angle 

 of cell 157. Metaprotus. 



6'. Frons with rounded prominence ; hind 

 wing with vein 5 from middle of disco- 

 cellulars 158. Simathistis. 



Genus 1. Oethoraphis. 



Orthoraphis Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 251 (1896). 



Palpi with the 2ncl joint porrect and fringed with hair above 

 and below, the 3rd upturned, well developed, and acuminate ; 

 maxillary palpi long and dilated with scales at extremity ; frons 

 rounded ; antennjB thickened and flattened ; tibiae with the outer 

 spurs nearly as long as the inner. Fore wing long aud narrow ; 

 the outer margin excised below apex and towards outer angle, 

 excurved at middle ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 

 6 absent : 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing 

 with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing with 8, the outer margin excised below 



apex and towards anal angle. 



rig. 1. 



Orthoraphis ohfuscata, cJ. \. (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



Tvjie. (l)tOBTHORAPHis OBFUSOATA Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 161, pi, 172. 

 f. 4. Ceylon. 



(2) Oethoraphis metasticta, n. sp. 



<S . Pale ochreous brown; palpi blackish at sides. Pore wing 

 with series of jtale dark-centred semicircular marks on medial part 

 of costa ; an ill-defined oblique antemedial black baud from cell to 

 inner margin : a speck in cell and prominent discocellular spot ; 

 an interrupted postmedial olack-edged white line, strongly incurved 

 below vein 5, bent outwards again to vein 1 ; a fine marginal 

 black Hue ; the base of cilia whitish. Hind \^-ing whitish ; a disco- 

 cellular black speck ; a short postmedial line between veins 5 and 

 2 ; the outer area fuscous, with a marginal black mark on vein 2 ; 



