970 CATALOGUE OF 





Genus 18. CBYPTOTHELEA ? 



Mas. Corpus pilosum, sat robustum. Caput antice subconi- 

 cum. Palpi minimi. Antennae usque ad apices late pectinatae, 

 tborace paullo longiores. Abdomen alas posticas triente superans. 

 Pedes validi ; antici longiusculi ; tibiae anticae appencliculatae. Alae 

 pilosae, opacae, sat longae et angustae ; anticae apud costam fere 

 rectae, apice rotundatae, margine exteriore perobliquo. 



Oiketicus (Cryptothelea), Templeton. 

 Oiketicus, p., Westivood. 



Male. Body rather stout, pilose. Head somewhat prominent 

 in front. Palpi very minute. Antennae deeply pectinated to the 

 tips, rather longer than the thorax. Abdomen extending for about 

 one-third of its length beyond the abdomen. Legs stout, especially 

 the hind pair ; fore legs longer than the others ; fore tibiae with a 

 long appendage. Wings pilose, opaque, rather long and narrow. 

 Fore wings almost straight in front, rounded at the tips, very oblique 

 along the exterior border; three superior and three inferior veins ; 

 discal areolet intersected by a secondary longitudinal vein ; second 

 inferior vein rather nearer to the third than to the first, which is 

 forked at one-third of its length ; submedian and internal veins 

 united in the disk of the wing. 



]. Cryptothelea consorta ? 



Fusca, kirsuta ; antenna obscure fuscce, ad apices pectinatce ; ab- 

 domen subfuscescens, subnudum, segmentis apicalibus fiavis 

 marginibus obscuris ; alec latce ; pedes antici hirsuti, postici 

 subnudi. 



Oiketicus (Cryptothelea) consortus, Templeton, Trans. Ent. Soc. 



Loud. v. 40, pi 5, f. 6, 7. 

 Oiketicus consortus, Westw. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1854) 235, pL 



36, f. 3. 



Male. Brown. Thorax partly testaceous. Abdomen testa- 

 ceous. Fore wings blackish along the veins, semihyaline in the 

 disks of some of the areolets. Length of the body 5 lines; of the 

 wings 12 lines. 



a, b. Ceylon. From Mr. Layard's collection. 



c. North India. From Mr. Saunders' collection. 



d. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



