TRICHOLEPIS. GTMNASTTRA. 



425 



Sect. II. Antennae of male mimitelj serrate, with cilia and bristles. 



897. Tricholepis erubescens. 



Tricholepis erubescens, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 44, pi. 139. ff. 3, 12 (1891) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 120 ; Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 89. 



cS . Head and thorax orange-scarlet ; fore tibise streaked "with 

 black ; abdomen black, tbe extremitj' ochreous Lelow ; wings 

 clothed with hair-like scales. Fore wing with oblique scarlet basal 

 patch extending on costa to middle, the costal edge black ; the 

 outer area black slightlj' tinged with scarlet. 

 Hind wing black, with scarlet streak on 

 basal half of costa. 



5 . Abdomen with large ochreous tufts 

 at extremit}'. Pore wing with the black 

 area strongly suffused with scarlet ; cilia 

 of both wings scarlet. 



Hab. NiLGiKis, 7000 ft. (Ham^json), 3 S , 

 1 5 type. Ea-j^. 20 millim. 



Fig. 338.— Trieholepis 



erubescens, (^ . {. 



(From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) 



Larva thickly clothed with short brown hair. 



and mesothorax 

 fuscous patches ; 



Genus GYMNASURA, nov. 



Type, G. sagincea. 



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

 is somewhat prominent ; antennas of female with bristles and cilia ; hind tibiae 

 with the medial spurs absent. Fore wing with vein 2 from middle of cell, 

 oblique ; 3 from well before angle ; 5 from well above angle ; 6 from well 

 below upper angle; 7,8, 9 stalked, 7 from beyond 9; 10 free; 11 slightly 

 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing with vein 2 from middle of cell ; 3 from 

 close to angle; 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 stalked; 8 from towards end of cell. 

 Wings thinly scaled. 



*898 GymnasTira saginaea. 



CaUigenia saginaa, Turner, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. 1899, p. 11. 

 5 . Head and thorax pale yellow ; palpi fuscous at tips ; patagia 

 with fuscous spots ; fore and mid tibise with 

 abdomen whitish. Fore wing pale yellow ; the 

 costa fuscous towards base ; 

 a dark point in base of cell ; 

 a dark fascia below the cell 

 from base to the antemedial 

 curved line, which is angled 

 inwards in submedian fold and 

 is conjoined at middle to the 

 medial line which is angled 

 inwards to it ; a black dis- 

 coidal point ; the postmedial line angled outwards below costa, then 

 very oblique and joining the antemedial line near inner margin ; the 

 snbterminal line irregular, dentate, with strong dentations extending 

 almost to termen on veins 6 and 4. Hind wing yellowish white. 



Hah. Queensland, Cairns (C J. Wild), type f $ in Coll. Turner. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



Fig. 339. — Gymnasura sagincea, § . 



