3b 



angle; 10 free from close upper angle; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 

 3 from close lower angle of cell; 4 and 5 shortly stalked; 6 and 7 

 also shortly stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Type : M. brizoalis. 



Margaronia brizoalis. 



Margaronia brizoalis, Walk. Cat. XIX, p. 976(1859). 



Cirriodirista brizoalis, Hampsu. Moths Ind. IV. p. 50 (1996). 



Hampson placed the species under the geuns Cirrhochrista, Led. of 

 the subfamily Schoenobii- 

 nae ) but the present spe- 

 cies has no characters of 

 the genus Cirrlioclirisfa and 

 should be removed from 

 the subfamily ScJwenobii- 

 nae to the subfamily En- 

 dotrichinae, erecting a new 

 genus for the reception of 



it. Fig. 9. Margaronia brizoalis,] ijL ^ 



Subfamily Pyralinae 



Genus Hirayamaia n. gn. 

 Palpi with the 2nd and 3rd joints triangularly scaled, about twice 

 the length of head and with a thick finge of the downcurved hair 

 on the inner side, the third joint dowucurved; maxillary palpi short 

 and filiform; probossis fully developed; antennae of <*J ciliate. Tibiae 

 moderately hairy, hind tibiae with two pairs of spurs, the outer ones not 

 more than one half of the inner. Fore wing rather broad, with the 

 apex somewhat acute and produced; vein 3 from before lower angle 



