TBtSULOTDES. 339 



Genus TRISULOIDES. ,j. 



TristoJ aides, Biitl. A. M. N. H. (o) vii. p. 36 (1881) sericea. 



Tambana, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 155 (1882) variegafa. 



Anacronicta, Warr., Seitz, G-ross-Sclimett. pal. iii. p. 18(1909) . caliginea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint liardly 

 reaching to middle of frons and rather broadly scaled, the 3rd short ; frons 

 smooth; eyes large, round; antenna of male typically bipectinate with 

 moderate branches, tlie apex serrate, of female minutely serrate; thorax 

 clothed with rough hair and hair-like scales, the prothornx without crest, the 

 metathorax with divided crest ; tibite fringed with long hair; abdomen with 

 dorsal series of crests, the crests on medial segments large. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell half the 

 length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or shortly stalked ; 5 fully 

 developed from well above angle ; 0, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennte of male bipectinate with moderate branches, the apex 

 ciliated, of female with short branches. 



A. Hind wing yellow, the terminal area brown pygaria. 



B. Hind wing yellow, the basal area tinged with brown, the 



terreiinal area brown papiieiisis. 



C. Hind wing black-brown with broad yellow postmedialband lufeifascia. 



*8147. Trisuloides pygraria. (Plate CCXXXIII. fig. 1.) 



Trmdoides piygarla, Warr. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 2 (1912). 



2 . Head white, the frons tinged with yellow ; palpi and an- 

 tennae black-brown, the former with the 2nd joint white in front ; 

 tegulse and patagia white tinged with fulvous ; thorax pale red-brown ; 

 pectus white tinged with fulvous yellow; tibiae and tarsi black- 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen red- brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish at base. Fore wing yellow suffused with red-brown and 

 slightly irrorated with white ; a curved white subbasal striga from 

 costa; antemedial line brown defined on inner side by whitish, 

 waved, excurved to median nervure, incurved in submedian inter- 

 space and excurved above inner margin ; a dark bro"\vn spot in 

 middle of cell ; medial line rather diffused, brown, slightly sinuous, 

 oblique to just below lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; a 

 large white patch beyond the cell from costa to vein 3 ; postmedial 

 line brown defined on outer side by white, slightly sinuous, ex- 

 curved from below costa to vein 4, then oblique, some small white 

 spots beyond it on costa and a slight brown shade beyond the white 

 angled inwards below vein 3 ; subterminal line rather diffused, 

 whitish, slightly sinuous, defined on inner side by a dark brown 

 shade to below vein 6, angled outwards below vein 7 ; a terminal 

 series of red-brown lunules defined on inner side by white ; cilia 

 rufous. Hind wing orange-yellow ; the terminal area fuscous 

 brown to vein 3, then with brown bar from its inner edge to tornus ; 



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