904 



ME. G. F. HAMPSON ON THE CLASSIFICATIOlf [DeC. 17, 



10, 11 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 shortly stalked ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Fig. 5. 



Actvpentias aureus, (^ . \. 



Type. tAcEOPENTiAS AXTBEiTS, Butl. A. M. N. H. 1878, i. p. 402. 



E. Siberia ; Japan. 

 fMarimatJia straminea, Butl. 111. Het. iii. p. 79, pi. 58. f. 2. 

 Sparagmia obtusalis, Christ. Bull. Mosc. Ivi. 1881, p. 26. 



Genus Banepa. 



Bane^a, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 204 (1887). 



Palpi with the 2nd joint long, porrect, and clothed with hair, 

 the 3rd upturned and long ; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled ; 

 proboscis minute ; antennae of male bipectinate ; legs smoothly 

 scaled, the spurs long. Fore wing with the costa arched at base, 

 then straight ; the apex produced ; the outer margin excised from 

 apex to vein 5, where it is excurved, then oblique to outer angle ; 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 from angle ; 6, 7 on a long stalk. 



Fig. 6. 



Banepa atkinsoni, cj. \. 

 Type. IBanepa atkiksoni, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 204. Sikhim. 



Genus Amesteta. 



Amestria, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 545. 



Palpi porrect, thickly scaled, and reaching just beyond frons, 

 which is rounded ; maxillary palpi thickly scaled ; antennae of 

 male ciliated ; tibiae smooth. Fore wing rather narrow ; vein 3 

 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 6 from well below upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked, 7 being given off before 9 ; 11 free. Hind 

 wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell ; 4 absent ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle. 



Type. *Amesteia ocuLiFEBAiiis, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. 546, 

 pi. 5. f. 10. U.S.A. 



