1899.] 



OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTIINM;. 



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G-enus 150. Sceliodes. 



Sceliodes G-uen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 400 (1856). 



Daraba Wlk. xvii. 385 (1859). 



Eretria Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 206. 



Palpi porrect, straight, about two and a half times length of head, 

 the 2nd joint fringed with long hair belo^v, the 3rd naked; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; frons with large conical prominence ; 

 antennae ciliated. Pore wing long and narrow, the apex some- 

 what produced and acute; veins 3, 4, 5 separate; 7 straight and 

 well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with the apex produced ; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 separate ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8, 



Pis. 150. 





Sceliodes cordalis, (^ , \. 



Type. (1) Sceliodes cordalis Doubl. in Dieff. Celebes ; Australia ; 

 N. Zeal. i. 288. N. Zealand. 



„ mucidalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 400. 



"f Daraba extensalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1311. 

 Eretria obsistalis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 206, & 1883, pi. 6. 

 f. 12. 



(2)tScELiODES LAiSALis Wlk. xvii. 382. 

 f Daraba idmonealis Wlk. xvii. 385. 



Arabia; S. Africa. 



Genus 151. Thelcteeia. 



Thelcieria Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 350. 



Eustixia Hiibn. Zutr. i. 24. 164 (1824), non descr. 



Palpi porrect and straight, the 2nd joint moderately scaled, the 



Thelcteria pupula, S. f. 



3rd naked ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales ; frons with a 



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