1898.] 



OF THE SUBFAMILT PTRAUSTIN^. 



671 



Sect. IV. Antennas of male ciliated. 



Type. (5)tAcRiDimA grxllina Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xv. p. 398. 



Ecuador ; Brazil. 

 Phryctena ylaucopidalis Oberth. Et. Eut. vi. p. 114, pi. 20. £. 4. 



Genus 51. Filodes. 



Filodes Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 317 (1854). 



Pinacia Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. iv. 4. p. 15 (1832), 

 non descr. 



Auxomitia Led. Wieu. Ent. Mou. 1863, p. 391. 



Palpi upturned, conically scaled, and hardly reaching vertex of 

 head; maxillary palpi filiform; frons with a rounded prominence; 

 antennae nearly one and a half times length of fore wing and 

 minutely annulated ; tarsi very long ; abdomen long, with lateral 

 tufts on terminal segments ; the anal tuft of male thick. Eore 

 wing with the costa highly arched towards apex ; veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 angle of cell ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9, to which 10 also 

 is closely approximated. Hind wing with the cell short ; veins 3, 

 4, 5 radiating from the angle ; 6, 7 on a long stalk, 7 anastomosing 

 or in male becoming coincident with 8, 9. 



Fig. 51. 



Modes fulvidorsalis, cJ • 



(From Motbs lud. vol. iv.) 



Sect. I. Hind coxae, femora, and outer side of tibiae of male with 

 tufts of hair, the medial spurs absent ; fore wing with vein 2 

 from angle of cell and approximated to 3, 4, which are distorted; 

 hind wing with a large hyaline space below vein 6 ; 6, 7 on a 



long stalk and 



along 4. 



distorted : 5 bent downwards aod running 



(l)tFiLODES EOCYTUSALis Wlk. xviii. 540. W. Africa; Eeunion. 

 „ costivitralis Guen. Eeuuion, p. 65. 

 Phryganodes ahnormalis Plotz, S.B. Z. 1880, p. 305. 



(2)tFiL0DEs PEODiroTALis, n. sp. (Plate L. fig. 14.) 



Head orange ; palpi banded with silver ; antenna brown ; 

 thorax brown ; abdomen orange, with silvery dorsal patches and 

 silvery and black lateral patches. Wings red-brown ; fore wing 

 with orange fascia on basal half of costal area ; a silvery subcostal 

 streak and short streak near base of median nervure ; two black 

 spots in cell and a discocellular luuule. 



Hah. Congo ; Mashonaland (Marshcdl). Exp. 40 mm. 



