1899.] 



OF THE SUBFAMILY PYEAUSTIX.i:. 



283 



intervals. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from tipper angle, 8 approximated to 7 

 for a short distance beyond end of cell, but not anastomosing with it. 



Type. fSiioETHiSTis tricolor Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. 95, pi. 134. f. 18. 



N.W. Himalayas. 



Genus 159. Steis^optycha. 



Stenoptycha Zell. S. E. Z. 1863, p. 154. 



Palpi porrect, extending hardly the length of head, the 1st joint 

 very broadly scaled below, the 2nd with shorter scales extending 

 as far as the short naked 3rd joint ; maxillary palpi small and 

 dilated with scales; frons with a rounded piominence ; antennae 

 longer than fore wing, annulate and ciliated ; legs very long and 

 slender, tibiae with the spurs minute ; abdomen long and slender, 

 with lateral tufts. Fore wing very long and narrow, veins 3, 4, 5 

 from angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 8, 9 stalked. 

 Hind wing somewhat ample ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 

 absent ; cell long ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 becoming coincident 

 with 7. 



Fis. 159. 



Stenoptycha ctslodactyla, (^ . \. 



Type. (1) Stenoptycha celodactyla Zell. S. E. Z. 1863, p. 154, pi. ii. 

 f. 12. Ecuador; Bogota; Chili. 



„ lindiqi Feld. Eeise Nov. pi. 140. f. 61. 



t „ zelleri Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 57. 



Agathodes dubitalis Maasen, Stiibel's Eeise, p. 170, pi. ix. f. 21. 



(2)tSTE]sroPTYCHA PTEROPHORALis Wlk. xxxiv. 1340. St. Domingo. 



(3)*STEiiroPTYCHA ERSCHOFFiAifA Zell. Hor. Ent. Eoss. xiii. p. 457, 

 pi. vi. f. 159. Bogota. 



Genus 160. Liis'eodes. 



Lineodes Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 234 (1854). 



Scoptonoma Zell. Verh. z.-b. Wien, xxiii. p. 328 (1873). 



Palpi porrect, hardly the length of head, the 1st joint very 

 broadljr fringed with scales below, the 2nd with shorter scales pro- 

 jecting as far as the short naked 3rd joint ; maxillary palpi filiform • 



