Q2 Indian Museum Motes, [Vol. V. 



4. ON A NEW GENUS OF TINEID MOTHS. 



By J. Durrant. 



DASYSES, Drnt, gn. n. 



(luvvg = shaggy ; <nj$ = a moth.) 

 Type— Cerostoma rugosella, Stn. 



Antennas, <J (i) ; ? somewhat shorter; rather thick, simple. 

 Maxillary palpi not developed. Labial palpi, median joint with a 

 thick rough triangular tuft projecting forward on the underside, 

 terminal joint erect. Head and face rough. Haustellum short. 

 Thorax not tufted. Forewings with the costa evenly rounded, 

 termen evenly rounded ; with strong tufts of raised scales. Neura- 

 tion: 12 veins; 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to costa ; other veins separate. 

 Hindwings (1), elongate ovate. Neuration: 8 veins, all separate. 

 Abdomen long; ? with extruded ovipositor. Legs, hind tibiae with 

 long hairs above. $ smaller than ? , 



Allied to Euplocamus, Ltr. but differing in the simple antennae 

 and in possessing raised scales on the forewings. 



1 363(1) Dasyses barbatus, Chr. 



Morophaga (?) barbata, Chr. Bull. Sve. Imp. Nat. Mosc. LVI. 

 432-3. No. 132 (1883) <i>: Sep. 195-6 (1 88. i) (1) ; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. 

 Lond. 1885. 883 (1886). 



Hab. : E. Siberia— Askold Id (1 >. 



This species should be referred to the genus Dasyses. 



1363 (2) Dasyses riigosellus, Stn. 



Cerostoma rugosella, Stn. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. (n. s.) V. 113-4 

 (1859) (1) ; Wkr. Cat. Ip. Ins. Bm. XXX. 1017. (1864) < 2 > ; Moore, 

 Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1867; 669 ( »; Wlsm. Pr. Z. Soc. Lond. 1885. 883 

 (1886) (4) ; Swinh. and Cotes Cat. Moths Ind. 709, No 4839 (1889)^." 



Nab.: INDIA —Calcutta ^ ; Bombay ^ IX (4) ; Poona (4 " 5) X (*), 

 XII (4) ; Bekpur 25. VII. 1886 (Minchin), CEYLON—Peradeniya. Larva 

 in galleries in the fibrous stem of a dead Cycas circinalis. 



