712 SIR G. r. HAMPSON — BEVISION OP MOTHS [NoV. 15, 



Genus 70. STiiEPTA. 



Sylepta Hiibn. Verz. p. 356 (1827). 



Lypotigris Hiibn. Verz. p. 361. 



Eyalltis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 289. 



Astura Gueu. Delt. & Pyr. p. 319. 



Asciodes Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 374 (1857). 



Pantoqrapta Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 387. 



Sathria Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 411. 



Erilusa Wlk. xxxiv. 1375 (1865). 



Herpetogramma Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 430. 



Nagia AVlk. xxxiv. 1320. 



Notarclia Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 310 (preocc). 



Patania Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 209 (1887). 



Pramadea Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 211. 



Crocidocnemis Warr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 269. 



Pleuroptya Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 443. 



Loxoscia^SiVY. A. M. N. H. (6) vi. p. 476 (1890). 



Haritalodes Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) vi. p. 476. 



Pardomhna Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) vi. p. 477. 



Epherema Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxxv. p. 170 (1892), 



Idiostrophe Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii. p. 133. 



HaUotifjris Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 163 (1896). 



Pohjcorys Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 172. 



Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of bead, the 2nd joint mode- 

 rately and evenly scaled in front, the 3rd short, naked, and blunt ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 tibiae smoothly scaled, with the outer spurs about half the length 

 of inner. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 

 curved and approximated to 8, 9, to which 10 also is approximated. 

 Hind wing with the cell short ; vein 3 from the angle ; 4, 5 some- 

 what approximated for a short distance ; 6. 7 from upper angle. 



Eig. 70. 



Sylepta sellalis, S . 



(From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with the shaft excised and contorted at 

 one-third from base, then thickened aud bearing an extremely 

 large plumose tuft of black hair extending to beyond middle ; 

 mid tibiie fringed with long hair on outer side. 



(l)tSYLEPTA PLXJMiFEEA, n. sp. (Plate XLIX. fig. 10.) 

 Golden yellow ; palpi, antennae, and shoulders tinged with 

 rufous ; fore legs banded with brown. Eore wing with the costal 



