1899.] 



or THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTIN.i:. 



Genus 116. Diasemia. 



213 



Diasemia Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 233 (1854). 



Mp'iosie^ihes Meyr. Trans. Ent. 8oc. 1884, p. 327. 



Choristostigma Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix. p. 440 (1892). 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden ; maxil- 

 lary palpi dilated with scales ; frons rounded ; antennas annulated 

 and ciliated, in male minutely serrate ; tibiae with the spurs long 

 and even. Fore wing long and narrow ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 

 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9, to which 10 is approxi- 

 mated. Hind wing with the outer margin excised below apex ; 

 the cell short ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 

 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



Fig. 116. 



Diasemia ramhurlalis, J . 



(From Moths Tnd. vol. iv.) 



Type. (1) Diasemia litteeata Scop. Ent. Carn. p. 229. 



Europe ; Japan ; India ; Ceylon. 

 Phalcena argentalis Eabr. Ent. 8yst. p. 419. 

 fIsojDterycc impulsalis Wlk. xvii. 404. 



(2) Diasemia eambubialis Dap. Lep. Er. viii. p. 343, pi. 233. 

 f. 6. Universally distributed. 



flsopteryx! melaleucalis Wlk. xvii. 402. 

 fLineodes leodocusalis Wlk. xix. 947. 

 f Diasemia reconditalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1325. 

 t „ leucopJicealis Wlk. xxxiv. 1326. 



(3)tDiASEMiA ACCALis AVlk. xix. 1015. China; N.W. Himalayas; 



Burma ; Malayan subregion. 

 „ spilonotalis Snell. Midd.-Sum., iv. Lep. p. 73. 



(4)tDiASEMiA GEAMMALis Doubl. Dieff. N. Zealand, ii. 287. 



]N. Zealand. 



(5)tDiASEMiA JAifASsiALis Wlk. xvii. 337. U.S.A. 



Botys hariolalis Hulst, Tr. Am. Ent. See. xiii. p. 149. 



(6)tDiASEMiA DisJECTALis Zell. Lep. Caffr. p. 16. S. xlfrica. 



(7) Diasemia matura Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 328. 



Australia. 



(8) Diasemia plumbosigistalis Eern. Ent. Am. iv. p. 37. U.S.A. 



(9)tDiASEMiA ELEGANTALis Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix. p. 440. 



U.S.A. 



