1898.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PTEAtTSTIK^. 637 



3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



rig. 29. 



Ercta elutalis, c? • t- (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



Sect. I. Mid tibiae of male dilated mth a fold containing 

 a ridge of hair. 



(l)tEECTA ELUTALIS Wlk. xvii. 448. S. India ; Ceylon ; 



fPi/ralis aonisalis Wlk. xix. 911. Borneo ; Celebes. 



Bofys bornealis Teld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 135. f. 27. 

 Spanista pretiosalis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 239, & 1884, 

 pi. 4. ff. 9, 9 a. 



Sect. II. Mid tibiae with no dilation or fold. 



(2) Ercta ori^atalis Dup. Lep. France, vii. p. 207, pi. 223. f. 8. 



S. Nearctic, Neotropical, & Ethiopian regions ; 

 Botys saturalis Treit. Schmett. Eur. S. Europe ; the Oriental 

 X. 3. 29. & Australian regions. 



fPyi'alis deciusalis Wlk. xix. 905. 



Botys invenustalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1431 . 

 ■fOatadysta fraterna Butl. A. M. N. H. 1875, ii. p. 415. 



(3) Ercta chaltbitis Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 444. 



New Hebrides ; Tonga. 



^2/i>«. (4) Ercta tittata Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 217. W. Indies. 



„ hemialis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 248. 

 t „ tipulalis Wlk. xvii. 426. 



Auctorum. 

 Hyclrh-is angustalis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxxviii. p. 154. Java. 



G-enus 30. Cnaphalocrocis. 



Cnaphalocrocis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 384. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled in front, the 3rd 

 with a short triangular tuft ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons flat 

 and oblique ; antennae annulated ; tibiae with the outer spurs half 

 the length of inner. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of 

 cell; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9; 10, 11 stalked; 

 male with erect triangular tuft of hair on upperside from subcostal 

 and median nervures at middle of cell, with a depression of the 

 wing-membrane between them and downwardly directed post- 

 medial tuft from costa. Hind wing with the cell short ; veins 3, 



