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NOCrUIDJE. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Fore wing with scale-tooth at tonuis. 



a. Metatliorax with large depressed crest; abdomen 



witli large crests on four basal segments Paralopiia, p. 142. 



h. Thorax without crests ; abdomen with crests on 



1st and 3rd segments Odontodes, p. 143. 



B. Fore wing without seale-tooth at tornus. 



a. Patagia with erectile triangular crest on upper 

 edge; p.ilpi with the 3rd joint dihited at 



extremity Stictoptera, p. 140. 



h. Patagia without crest on upper edge ; palpi with 

 the 3rd joint not dilated at extremity. 

 «!. Antenna} about one and a half times length 



of fore wing Gigantoceras, p. 17i 



lA. AntenniB not longer than fore wing. 



«2. Fore wing triangular LonioPTERA, p. 175. 



b'^. Fore wing narrow. 



(«3. Fore wing with the costa highly arched . Sadarsa, p. 203. 

 i'*. Fore wing with the margins almost 

 parallel. 

 a^. Tiind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked. 

 flS. Hind wing with vein 8 anastomosing 



with the cell to middle Nycteola, p. 205. 



b^. Hind wing with vein 8 anas- 

 tomosing with the cell near base 



only Stenosticta, p. 20 >. 



bK Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from cell. 

 a^. Prothorax with sharp ridge-like 



crest NlGHAMMA, p. 106. 



b^. Thorax without crests Gyrtona, p. 207. 



Genus PARALOPHA. 



Type. 



Paralopha, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xv, p. 204 (1908) rubigmea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head, the 3rd long; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennai of female 

 minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed, the rnetathorax 

 with large depressed crest; hind tibia; fringed with long hair; abdomen with 

 large dorsal crests on four bisal segments. P^ore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate, the inner margin lobed near 

 base and with scale-tooth near tornus ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 

 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anast9mosing with 8 to form, the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with the ceil less than half length of wing ; veins 3, 4 

 from angle; 5 from above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



*6368. Paralopha ruhiginea. 



JParalopha ntbic/inea, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 204 (1908). 



2 . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with some gTe3-ish, 

 the metathoracio crest fuscous ; tarsi blackish ringed with -white ; 

 abdomen reddish brown tinged with grej'. Fore wing red- brown 

 mixed with greyish and ochreous ; a rather darker patch at base of 

 costa and subbasal patches on costa and inner margin ; antemedial 

 lino indistinct, red-brown defined on inner side by ochreous, curved, 



