1899.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTIX.E. 179 



Joint fringed above and below with hair, the 3rd prominent ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; hind tibiae with the outer 

 medial spur minute. Fore wing produced at apex, the outer 

 margin oblique ; veins 3, 5 from close to angle of cell ; 7 straight 

 and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with the cell short ; 

 the discocellulars produced along vein 4, which is approximated to 

 5 ; 6, 7 stalked, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



Sect. I. {TliUptoceras). Antennae of male with two curved teeth 

 on basal joint forming an upturned cavity, the basal part of 

 shaft curved, then expanded into a cavity formed of short 

 appressed pectinations. 



Type. (l)tTnLiPTOCERAS cascale Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 271, 

 pi. 8. f. 18. Japan ; India, Ceylon, & Burma. 



Thliptoceras variabilis Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 274 ; 

 Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. pi. 156. ff. 2, 10. 

 . Circohotys pTiycidalis Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 599, 



Sect. II. Antennae of male with the basal joint excised and with a 

 slight tuft of hair from inner side ; fore wing less produced at 

 apex, the costa highly arched before middle. Hind wing 

 with the inner area clothed with long hair; patagia extending 

 beyond metathorax, 



(2)*Thltptoceras sttgiale Hmpsn. Moths of India, iv. p. 378. 



Assam. 



Sect. III. (PropJiantis). Antennae of male ciliated. 



(3) Thliptoceras octogtjttale Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 135. f. 38. 



Natal ; Indian & Malayan subregions to Australia. 

 fPyraUs smaragdina Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 411 (1875), 



(4)*Thliptoceras distictalis, n. sp. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides, whitish below ; wings purplish brown. Fore 

 wing with two obliquely placed orange subbasal points and some 

 diifused orange on inner margin ; a white bar across end of cell 

 and spot below end ; the costa orange, with 6 or 7 black points 

 from above end of cell to the wedge-shaped subterminal band which 

 ends on vein 5 ; termen and cilia orange with purplish points. 

 Hind wing with some diif used orange on basal area, and two spots 

 in cell conjoined to the whitish costal area ; a medial yellow 

 band narrowing to inner margin ; the termen and cilia orange. 



Bub, Katha, Burma. E:cp. 28 mm. Type in Coll. Eothscbild. 



(5)tTHLIPT0CERAS CCENOSIOLALIS, n. Sp. 



6 . Head and tegulae ochreous ; palpi black at sides, white below ; 



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