PYRALID^, SUBFAMILY HYPSOTROPIN^. 121 



(8) Critonia OCHRACEALIS. 



Critonia ochracealis Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xxi. 

 p. 1251 (1912). 



Punjab, Kangia ; Madras, Nilgiris. 



(9) *Oritonia hilgerti. 



Pectinigeria hilgerti Roths. Nov. Zool. xxii. p. 236. 

 Algeria. 



B. Antennas of male laminate and without sinus and ridge of scales at base of 

 shaft. 



a. (Sinffhalia.) Palpi of male with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned to vertex 



of head and thickly scaled, the 3rd porrect, long and blunt. 



(10) tORITONIA SARCOGLAUCA. 



Critonia sarcoglauca Hmpsn. Moths Inch iv. p. 60 (1896); id. 

 Rom. Mem. viii. p. 351, pi. 51. f. 24. 

 Ceylon. 



b. Palpi of male downcurved and extending about three times length of head. 



(11) Critonia rhodessa. 



Saluria rhodessa Turner, Pr. R. Soc. Queensh xviii. p. 120 

 (1903). 



Queensland. 



(12) tCRITONIA SARCOIDA, Sp. n. 



Head n.nd thorax purplish pink, the head and shouldeis 

 tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreous white, dorsally fulvous 

 yellow towards base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdo- 

 men ochreous tinged with brown. Fore wing purpli&li pink, the 

 costal area tinged with biown ;" the veins, discal fold iii the cell, 

 and submedian fold white defined on each side by fine puiplish- 

 pink streaks, the median nervure rather more stiongly stieaked 

 with white and with a brown streak below it. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the costal area tinged with brown. 



Br. E. Africa, Njora {Chohnley), 1 S ; Br. C. Africa, 

 Mt. Mlanje [Neave), 3 $ ; Portuguese £. Africa, Kola Valley 

 (iVertve), 3 § ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (i)/«rsAaZ^), 1 $ ; Trans- 

 vaal {Fead), 1 J type. Hxjj. 28-34 mm. 



Genus MONOCTENOCERA. 



Type. 

 Monoctenocera Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. iSoc. xii. 



p. 310 (1898) ; id. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 311 (1901). hrachiella. 



Proboscis aborted 8nd minute ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 

 2nd joint reaching to just above vertex of head and hollowed out 

 to receive the brush-like maxillary palpi, the 3i'd short and 



