COSTAKCHA. STICTOSIA. 293 



Genus COSTARCHA. 



Type. 

 Costarcha, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 53 (1891) indiitincta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, short, and not nearly reaching 

 vertex of head ; antenn£e bipectinate, the branches fine and at right angles to 

 shaft ; tibiiB with the spurs long. Fore wing thinly scaled ; the eosta arched 

 at base and towards apex; the cell long; vein 2 from just beyond middle; 

 3 from long before angle ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from 

 towards end of cell ; 3, 4 coincident ; 5 from angle ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 from 

 middle of cell. 



616. Costarcha indistincta. 



Costarcha indistincta, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 53, pi. 140. f. 22 (1891) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 94 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 362. 



cj . Grey tiuged with pale brown ; head and extremity of abdomen 

 tinged with hiscous. Fore wing irrorated with fuscous ; the costal 



edge black towards base ; 

 oblique indistinct subbasal and 

 antemedial lines from eosta 

 to median nervure, where the 

 latter is strongly angled, then 

 reduced to an oblique series of 

 points ; an indistinct dark 

 Fig. '210^Costcircha i7idistincta, S- h mark on middle of eosta : in- 

 (i^rom Moths Ind. vol, u.) j- i.- j. ^ :3- ^ j v 



^ ^ distinct postmedial and sub- 



terminal series of points angled beyond the cell, then oblique ; 

 a fuscous patch on eosta towards apex and terminal series of points. 

 Hind wing paler. 



Hah. JSTiLGiEis {Hampson), 2 c? , type. Ewj). 28 millim. 



Genus STICTOSIA, nov. 



Type, S. flexilisana. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi slender, porrect, extending to just beyond 

 the frons ; antennte of male ciliated ; tibiaj with the spurs long. Fore wiug 

 short and broad, the eosta arched ; vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 3 from 

 close to angle ; 5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked, 

 7 from beyond 9; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from towards angle of 

 cell ; 3, 4 stalked ; 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 coincident in male, on a long 

 stalk in female ; 8 from beyond middle of cell, with a small patch of androconia 

 on it in male, and the subcostal nervure bent downwards towards angle 

 .of cell. 



617. Stictosia flexilisana. 



Conchylis flexilisana, Wlk. xsviii. 362 (1863), J. 



Tospitis decvbitana, Wlk. xxviii. 431 (1863) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 335. 



Tospitis illatalis, Wlk. xxx. 994 (1864), ? . 



J . Head and thorax ochreous, irrorated with dark scales ; 

 .abdomen pale, the extremity ochreous. Fore wing yellow-brown, 

 irrorated with black scales ; a black point on subcostal nervure 



