106 PROF. E. B. POULTOX OX 



6 from well below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with the cell long ; veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent 

 from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



In key differs from Prometopus in the fi'ontal prominence being 

 toothed at edges and the fore wing having veins 3, 4 stalked. 



3880 «. Odontoretha featheri, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 7, 6 .) 



(5 . Head white ; antennae tinged with fuscous ; frons with 

 black bars at sides ; palpi mostly black ; thorax and abdomen 

 grey-white mixed with some blackish ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white, the tarsi black ringed with white. 

 Fore wing grey- white, the terminal half with black scales mixed 

 except a patch in and just beyond the cell from costa to vein 2 ; 

 the daxker area defined on inner side by a, faint oblique inedial 

 line angled outwards just below the cell, with a black streak in 

 the cell from it to the pale patch, which is somewhat constricted 

 at discal fold. Hind wing white ; a brown discoidal striga and 

 some faint stride on ternien except towards torniTS ; the underside 

 with some black on costa towards base, a rather diffused black 

 mark on vein 8 just beyond the cell, and the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with black towards apex. 



1909: Mar. 12,-1 6 (type). Exp. 24 millim. 



3989. Athetis leuconephra Hmpsn. 



1908: Sept. 24,-1 ?; Sept. 27,-1 ^; Oct. 13,-1 ?. 



3998 a. Athetis discopuncta, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 8, 5 •) 

 5 . Head and thorax creamy white irrorated with rufous and 

 a few black-brown scales ; antennae brown except at base ; palpi 

 tinged with red-brown towards tips ; abdomen whitish suffused 

 with red-brown. Fore wing white irrorated with pale red-brown 

 and a few black-brown scales ; small subbasal, antemedial, and 

 postmedial black spots on costa ; a black point just beyond the 

 cell ; traces of a postmedial line formed by red-brown and black 

 scales arising from the costal spot, excurved from below costa to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; some minute blackish streaks on post- 

 medial part of costa ; subterminal line represented by slight 

 blackish streaks and spots except towards costa; the terminal 

 area tinged with rufous except at apex ; a series of small black 

 spots just before termen ; cilia rufous at base, chequered rufous 

 and white at tips. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with 

 rufous except towards apex. Underside white, the costal and 

 terminal areas of fore wing and apex of hind wing irrorated with 

 rufous. 



1909: Sept. 11,-1 $ (type). Exp. 28 millim. 



4020 a. Athetis ectomel^na, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 9, c?-) 



<S . Head and thorax ochreous ; antennpe brownish : palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tibia? irrorated with blackish, the tarsi blackish 



