732 SIR G. F. HAMPSON — REVISION OF MOTHS [NoV. 15, 



angularly dilated with scales ; frons rounded ; antennae of male 

 nearly simple ; tibiae with the outer spurs less than half the length 

 of inner ; male with the anal tuft large. Tore wing with the 

 costa highly arched towards apex ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of 

 cell ; 7 curved and closelj^ approximated to 8, 9 for nearly half its 

 length ; 10 also approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing with vein 3 

 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 closely approximated for a short distance ; 

 the discocellulars shghtly angled and nearlj' erect ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle or shortly stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Sect. I. Antennse of male with the basal joint dilated ; a small 

 tooth at base of inner side of shaft, which is contorted but 

 not thickened. 



A. (Paradosis). Hind tibiae of male with the inner medial spur 

 tufted with hair and a tuft between the two pairs of spurs ; 

 both wings with the basal half clothed with bair. 



(1) Gltphodes flegia Cram, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 66, pi. 140. D. 



W. Indies : S. America. 

 Margaronia virginalis Hiibn. Verz. p. 358. 

 Murgarodes phantasmalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 310. 

 Paradosis vUlosalis Zell. Lep. Caffr. p. 58. 



B. {Sisyropliora). Hind tibiae -«f male fringed with bair on outer 

 side and with a tuft on inner side near the medial spurs. 



(2) Gltphodes pfeiffeb^ Led. "Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 399, 



pi. 13. f. 13. K.E. India ; Burma ; Andamans ; 



Cydalima elwesialis Snell. Trans. Ent. Singapore; Sumatra. 

 Soc. 1890, p. 607, pi. xix. ff. 1, 1 a. 



Sect. II. {Margarodes). Antennae of male with the basal joint 

 dilated ; the base of shaft somewhat thickened and then 

 contorted. 



(3) Gltphodes laticostalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 303 ; Moore, 



Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi. 182. f . 4. India ; Ceylon : Burma ; 



Malayan subregion to New Hebrides. 

 Margarodes nitidicostalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 303. 

 Margaronia leodicealis Wlk. xviii. 530. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male with four caliciform teeth enclosing 

 a hollow at base of shaft, which is much bent and contorted 

 for about one-fourth length and with a small angulation at 

 end of contorted portion ; hind legs with a large tuft of hair 

 on outer side of 1st joint of tarsus. 



(4)tGLTPH0DES ophiceealis Wlk. xxxiv. 1440. 



Assam ; Burma ; Java. 



