1898.] or THE SUBFAMILY PYEAUSTIN^. 713 



area rufous ; a subbasal black point on inner margin ; an ante- 

 medial dark rufous line angled below cell, then incurved ; a spot 

 in cell and discoidal reniform spot ; a dentate postmedial line bent 

 outwards between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below end of 

 cell ; the terminal area rufous from apex to vein 5 and at toruus. 

 Hind wing with discoidal reniform spot ; the postmedial line bent 

 outwards and dentate between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to 

 below angle of cell and ending near tornus ; the apical area and 

 some terminal lunules rufous : both wings with series of dark 

 points on the cilia. 



Hah. Amboina {Doherty); Fergusson I., N. Guinea {Meek). 

 Exjj. 40 mm. 



Sect. II. (Asciodes). Antennae of male contorted and with a large 

 tuft of hair at about one-third from base ; fore tibiae tufted 

 with hair. 



(2) Sylefxa goedialis Guen. Delt. p. 374, pi. 5. f. 10. 



St. Domingo ; S. America. 

 fScopm-ia quietalis Wlk. xix. 825. 

 Besmia confusalis Hulst, Tr, Am. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 158. 



(3) Sylepta scopttlalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 375. Brazil ; Peru. 

 Ceratoclasis verecunclalis Berg, Bol. Ac. Nac. Cord. i. p. 177. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male thickened and excised at about one- 

 sixth from base ; mid tibiae tufted with hair ; hind tibiae with 

 a large tuft at base and small tuft at extremity. 



(4)tSYLEPTA HELCiTALis Wlk. xviii. 574. W. Indies ; 



■\Botys orphnealis Wlk. xviii. 736. S. America, 



f „ dracusalis Wlk. xix. 983. 

 „ subcequalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1394. 



Sect. IV. (Pramadea). Antennae of male with a tooth of scales 

 from upperside of basal joint, the shaft excised at base. 



(5)*SYLEFrA cuBiusALis Wlk. xviii. 688. Borneo. 



(6)tSYLEPTA DBJfTicuLATA Moors, Lep. Atk. p. 211. N.E. India. 



(7)tSYLEPTA CAEBATiNALis Swlnh. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1890, p. 288, 

 pi. 8. f. 13. Assam ; Burma. 



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



(8) Sylepta coh^salis Wlk. xxxiv. 1418. India ; Sula ; 



Borneo ; Australia ; Fiji. 

 Notarclia halunja Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 259. 

 Coptohasis hiocellata Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 171. 



(9)tSYLEPTA ceotonalis Wlk. xix. 997. N.E. India ; Ceylon. 



(10) Sylepta lettcodontia, n. sp. 



c? . Fuscous with a slight purplish gloss. Fore wing with 

 indistinct dark antemedial line bent outwards to inner margin ; 

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