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maxillary palpi filiform ; frons flat and oblique ; antennae of male 

 ciliated ; fore tibiae fringed with long hair ; mid and hind tibiae 

 with the outer spurs about half the length of inner ; abdomen of 

 male with lateral tufts on the last three segments, the anal 

 tuft long. Fore wing long and narrow, the costa arched towards 

 apex, which is produced, the outer margin excurved at middle ; the 

 inner margin excised before the outer angle, which is lobed ; vein 3 

 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 somewhat approximated for a 

 shorb distance ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing 

 ample ; the costa highly excised before and after middle ; lobed at 

 middle and towards apex ; veins 4, 5 somewhat approximated for 

 a short distance ; the discocellulars erect ; veins 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 touching but not anastomosing with 8. 



Fig. 94. 



Terastia meticulosalis, (S . \. (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



(1) Terastia egialealis Wlk. xvii. 383. Himalayas ; Java. 



„ procelalis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 416. 

 fAgatJiodes diversalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1307. 

 fMegaphysa quadriferalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1628. 



Type, (2) Terastia meticulosalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 212. 



W. Indies ; Ceylon ; Java ; 

 „ subjectaJis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. Philippines. 



1863, p. 480. 

 ■\Megaphysa guadratalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1527. 

 Megastes coeligenalis Hulst, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. xiii. p. 156. 



(3) Terastia maegaritis Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 136. f. 40. Natal. 



G-enus 95. Megastes. 



Megastes Guen. Delt. & Pyr, p. 375 (1854). 



Palpi porrect, extending about the length of head, the 2nd joint 

 fringed with hair below, the 3rd prominent and thickly scaled ; 

 maxillary palpi triangularly dilated with scales ; frons rounded ; 

 antennae of male bipectinate ; build stout ; tibiae with the outer 

 spurs about half the length of inner. Pore wing with the costa 

 highly arched towards apex, which is somewhat produced ; the 

 inner margin excised before outer angle, which is hooked ; veins 3, 

 4. 5 from angle of cell ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9. Hind 

 wing with the cell half the length of wing; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 



