TOXOPILLEPS. — HTELA. 



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roughly scaled, the 3rd short ; antennae minutely ciliated in male ; 

 thorax smoothly scaled ; abdomen with dorsal tufts on the proximal 

 segments ; tibiae naked. Fore wing with the apex nearly rect- 

 angular ; veins 7, 8, 9 stalked. Hind wing with veins 6, 7 stalked. 



Sect. I. Tore wing of male with the subcostal nervure very much 

 bowed ; vein 10 absent ; 7, 8, 9 displaced. 



2006. Toxophleps optiva, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 224; 



Hmpsn. III. Met. ix, pi. 167, fig. 26. 



Dark greyish fuscous. Fore wing 

 with waved ante- and postmedial 

 narrow erect orange bands, with 

 black edges. Hind wing pale. 



Hah. Ceylon ; Eangoon. Exp. 

 16 millim. 



Fig. 106. 

 Toxophleps optiva, tf . \. 



Sect. II. Fore wing with the subcostal nervure and veins 7, 8, 9 

 not distorted in either sex ; vein 10 present. 



2007. Toxophleps trilatalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1237; C. $ S. 



no. 4469. 



Differs from optiva in the bands of the fore wing being fiery 

 orange and the base suffused with orange as far as the antemediai 

 band. 



Hah. Simla ; Dharmsala. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus HYELA. 



Hyela, Steph. Cat. Lep. Brit. B. M. p. 149 (1850). 

 Bankia, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 231 (1852). 



Type, H. uncula, Clerck, from Europe. 

 Bange. Europe and throughout India ; Burma. 

 Differs from Hyelopsis in being without the dorsal tufts to 

 abdomen. 



2008. Hyela obliqua, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 143; C. $ S. no. 1857. 



Head and abdomen ochreous, irrorated with 

 black scales ; thorax white, banded with dark 

 cupreous brown. Fore wing with the basal 

 area white, irrorated with dark and pink 

 scales ; its outer edge oblique, the rest of the 

 wing dark cupreous brown, with an oblique 

 white band from the costa just beyond the 

 middle to outer angle; the costa ochreous. 

 Hind wing dark fuscous. 

 The Burmese form has a brown patch on the base of costa of 



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Fig. 167. 

 Hyela obliqua, $ . 



