1899,] OP THE SUBFAMILi' PYBACJSTIN.aE. 181 



Sect I. {Protonoceras). Male with a tuft of forwardly directed 

 hair betweeu the antennas ; antennae with basal joint dilated, 

 the shaft given off from its outer side, much bent near base, 

 then with some small serrations on inner side and with 

 long cilia. 



A. Antennae of male with Ijng curved tuft of hair from inner 



side of basal joint, the tuft between antennae long. 



(IjtAECHEENis CAPiTALis Fabr. Suppl. Ent. Syst. p. 468 (1798), 



Formosa : India, Ceylon, & Burma. 

 Botys tropicalis Wlk. xviii. 670 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi. 181. 

 f. 9. 



B. Antennae of male without the curved tuft from basal joint, 



the frontal tuft less developed. 



(2) Archeris-is dolopsalis Wlk. xviii. 692. S. India, Ceylon, 



Burma ; Borneo ; My sol. 

 Botys fimhriiyunctalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1425. 

 fProtonoceras fusciluimlis Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 134, pi. 155. 



f. 22. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male serrate at base and with a tuft of hair 

 on inner side at one- third. 



(3)tARCHER2fis FULTALis Hmpsu. Journ. Bomb, Nat. Hist, 

 Soc. ined. Sikhim ; Ceylon. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male normal. 



(4)tAECHEENis RUMiLis Swiuh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv. p. 146. 



Assam. 

 (SjtARCHERNis KiOTiTANS Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv. p. 146. 



Assam. 

 (6)*ARCHER]vris LUGENS Warr. A. M. N, H, (6) xviii. p. 110. 



Assam, 

 (7)*Aechernis scopulalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1438. Plores. 



I'ype (8) Aecheenis callixaktha Meyr. P. Linn. Soc, JVT.S.W. ii. 1, 

 p. 254. Pulo Laut ; New Guinea ; Australia. 



Chrvsommatodes cereq/Iavalis Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii. 

 p.'^lOS. 



(9)tAECEERNis oBLiQUiALis Hmpsu. Moths Ind. iv. p, 380, 



Sikhim. 

 (10) Archernis ignealis Wlk. xxxiv. 1423. Mysol ; N. Guinea ; 



Queensland. 

 Genus 94. Terastia, 

 Terastia Guen, Delt. & Pyr. p. 211 (1854). 

 Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint bidden by hair ; 



