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Genus ANCYLOLOMIA. 



Ancvlolomia, Hilbn. Verz. p. 363 (? 1818). 

 Jartheza, Wilt. Cat. xxvii, p. 183 (1863). 



Type, A. tentaculella, Hiibn., from Europe. 



Range. Argentina; Mediterranean subregion ; Etbiopian and 

 Oriental regions ; Australia. 



Palpi porrect, tbickly clothed with hair, and extending about 

 three times the length of head ; maxillary palpi triangularly 

 scaled ; frons oblique ; abdomen long ; tibiae with the outer spurs 

 about two-thirds length of inner. Fore wing long and narrow; 

 the apex produced ; the outer margin excised below apex, then 

 excurved ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 

 free ; 11 becoming coincident with 12. Hind wing with vein 3 

 from close to angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle or stalked: 6 from 

 above middle of discocellulars and obsolescent ; 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with short uniseriate laminated 

 branches ; of female simple. 



4223. Ancylolomia chrysographella, Kail. HugeVs Kaschnir, iv, 



p. 494 ; C.$ S. no. 4712. 

 Ancylolomia capensis, Zell. Mon. Chil. 8f Cramb. p. 11. 

 Ancylolomia taprobanensis, Zell. Hor. Ent. Ross. 1877, p. 25, 



pi. 1, fig. 8 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 184, figs. 2, 2 a ; C. 8, S. 



no. 4710. 

 Ancylolomia indica, Feld. Rets. Nov. pi. 137, fig. 19 ; C. fy S. 



no. 4714. 

 Ancylolomia argentata, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 382, pi. 184, fig*. 3; 



C. 8f S. no. 4708. 



Brownish ochreous. Pore wing with silvery and yellow 

 fascia?, with streaks of black scales on them in cell* and the' inter- 

 spaces beyond and below 

 it ; a minutely dentate 

 submarginal silvery line 

 with a more prominent 

 tooth at vein 3 ; a whitish 

 marginal band with a series 

 of dark specks on it ; the 

 cilia silvery. Hind wing 



t 7 • 7^' g " 21, 7 77 whitish, pale fuscous, or 



Ancylolomia chriisoqrapnelLa, <S . \. j i <• ,, c 



y y v± i dark: fuscous m the form 



taprobanensis, which is more common in the South. 



The fore wing may have a white fascia developed on median 

 nervure. 



Hob. S. Africa ; Aden ; Japan ; China ; Formosa ; throughout 

 India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Penang. Exp., 3 20-30, $ 30- 

 40 millim. 



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