MITHTJNA. METEUKA. 



123 



B. Fore wing with vein 7 from after 10. 



237. Mithuna strigifera, n. sp. 



5 , Grey-brown. Fore wing pale grej^ suffused with red-brown 



except on costal and ter- 

 minal areas ; a postmedial 

 black spot on costa, with 

 obscure line from it acutely 

 angled at vein 6, then 

 retracted to middle of vein 

 1 ; a dark streak in cell ; 

 three black points on co?ta 

 towards apex, with an 

 oblique streak from the 



last almost to the angle of postmedial line ; a terminal series of 



black points. Hind wing fuscous. 



Hah. SiKHiM, 1 $ type, Zell. Coll. Exp. 28 millim. 



Fig. QQ.— Mithuna strigifera, (^ . 



Genus TYLANTHES. 

 Tylanthes, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 459.... 



Type. 

 ptochias. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, not reaching vertex of head ; 

 antennae of male ciliated ; tibi£e with the spurs moderate ; abdomen clothed 

 veith rough hair, lateral tufts of hair on terminal segment, the claspers and 

 anal tuft large. Fore wing rather broad ; male with some rough scales on 

 basal area on underside ; a thick tuft of short hair in a fovea below base of 

 vein 2, with a tuft of short hair above it on the broad costal fold wiaich extends 

 to middle of wing ; the cell narrow, and the subcostal and median nervures 

 approximated ; vein 2 from beyond middle of cell, curved round the fovea ; 

 3, 4 stalked ; 5 absent ; 6, 7, 8, and 10 stalked, 9 absent ; 1 1 free. Hind wing 

 with costal fold fringed with large scales and with tufts of large scales below 

 it ; a very large and thick tuft of hair below middle of costa at end of costal 

 fold ; the median nervure giving off a single vein to costa at functional apex, 

 and the remainder of veins from cell absent, obliterated in the costal tufts 

 and fold. 



*238. Tylanthes ptochias. 



Tylanthes ptochias, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 460; Kirby, Oat. Het. 

 p. 341. 



c? . Yellow-brown ; hind 

 wing pale yellow; the tufts 

 of scales in fovea on under- 

 side of fore wing and at end 

 of costal fold of hind wing 

 fuscous. 



Yig.9,1.-Tylanthes ptochias, S. \. ^,^''\-^' ^^^^^^^^ ^ort 



^ ^ ^ ' ° ^ Moresby (Kowald), 1 d , typef 



in Coll. Meyrick. Exj). 2i millim. 



Genus METEURA, nov. 

 Type, M. cervina. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond the frons ; 

 antennte of male with long bristles and cilia ; tibiaj with the spurs moderate. 



