520 NOCTUID^. 



2551. Plecoptera luteiceps, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 992 ; C. fy S. no. 2307. 

 Poaphila quadrilineata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 172, pi. 5, fig-. 22; 



C. $ S. no. 2311. 



Head, collar, and tibiae orange-fulvous ; thorax aud abdomen 

 brownish fuscous. Fore wing brownish fuscous suffused with 

 purplish; a straight erect antemedial line; a postmedial line, 

 angled below costa ; an indistinct fuscous reniform stigma ; a 

 highly sinuous submarginal line. Hind wing dark fuscous ; cilia 

 of both wings pale brown. 



Hab. Sikhim; Khasis. Exp. 36 millim. 



2552. Plecoptera erica, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 149, pi. 8, 



fig. 15. 



Differs from luteiceps in the reniform being replaced by two 

 specks ; the postmedial line absent ; a straight submarginal rufous 

 line, with indistinct fuscous line beyond it. 



Hob. Shanghai ; Bombay ; Java. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus ACANTHOLIPES. 



Acantholipes, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 198 (1857). 

 Gesonia, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 75 (1858). 

 Oglasa, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 194. 

 Dragana, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 200. 

 Hileia, Wlk. Cat. xxiv, p. 1100 (1862). 

 Apphadana, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1212 (1865). 

 Docela, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 125a 

 Hemipsectra, Hmpsn. III. Set. viii, p. 84 (1891). 



Type, A. regularis, Hiibn. from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; Africa ; Eormosa ; throughout India and 

 Ceylon ; E. Pegu ; Andamans. 



Palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint very broadly fringed 

 with hair, the 3rd minute ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled 

 and slender ; tibiae without spines and not fringed with long hair. 

 Pore wing with the apex quadrate or slightly acute. 



Sect. I. {Acantholipes) . Antennae of male minutely ciliated. 

 A. Wings moderately broad. 



2553. Acantholipes circumdatus, Wlk. Cat. xv, p. 1763. 

 Acantholipes flavisigna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 371 ; C. 8f S. 



no. 2692. 

 Acantholipes nigrisigna, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 372 ; C. 8j S. 



no. 2694. 

 Docela vetustalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1258. 

 Docela affinis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) v, p. 225 ; C. 8f S. no. 2691. 



Pale ochreous brown. Pore wing with a black lunule at end 

 of cell ; the outer half of wing clouded with fuscous, especially a 

 patch below the end of the cell and three patches beyond the 



