758 SIR G. F. HAMPSON — ItEVISION OF MOTHS [NoV. 15, 



Type. (3)tMETEEA ostbeonalis Grote, Pap. ii. p. 73. U.S.A. 



Botys urticaloides Fyles, Can. Ent. 1894, p. 184. 



Genus 85. Crocidolomia. 



Crocidolomia Zell. Lep. CafEr. p. 65 (1854). 



Godam Wlk. xix. 808 (1859). 



Trischistognatha Warr. A. M. X. H. (6) ix. p. 429 (1892). 



Palpi obliquely upturned, with tufts of hair at end of 1st and 

 2nd joints, the 3rd well developed and obtuse; maxillary palpi 

 dilated with scales at extremity ; frons rounded ; antennae of 

 male laminate. Fore wing with a tuft of scales at middle of inner 

 margin ; male with a large tuft of hair on upperside from near 

 base of costa recurved over the wing ; underside with a fringe of 

 hair below the cell. Hind wing with the cell short ; veins 4, 5 

 approximated for nearly half their length ; 3 from angle of cell 

 and approximated to 4, 5 for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 7 anastomosing strongly with 8, which is highly sinuous. 



Fig. 85. 



C'rocidohmia suffusalis, cJ. \. (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



Sect. I. (Crocidolomia). Fore coxse of male very much enlarged, 

 with a leaden-coloured semicircular hollow on inner side with 

 large tufts of white hair on each side of it ; mid tibiae and the 

 inner spur fringed with long hair on inner side ; abdomen 

 with dorsal tuft en 1st segment. Fore wing with vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 4, 5 well separated at origin ; 10 sepa- 

 rated from 8, 9 ; hind wing of male with a large fovea on 

 imderside below the cell before the origin of vein 2. 



A. Male with a large subcostal vesicle at base of fore wing on 

 underside, with a thick tuft of short hair from the subcostal 

 nervure just beyond it ; the fringe below median nervure 

 short and emitting four strong curved spines playing on 

 the subcostal tuft ; hind wing with a membranous bar 

 given off from the end of the fovea at origin of vein 2, 



a. Fore wing of male with a slight tuft of long hair at end of 

 the fringe below the ceU. 



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(l)tCEOCiDOLOMiA suFFUSAXis Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 135, 

 pi. 155. ff. 4, 12. India ; Ceylon. 



