6 PYEALID.fl. 



c? • With the fore wing long, narrow, produced and acute at 

 apex ; a rufous speck in cell and another on discocellulars ; cilia 

 rufous. 



Hab. Bhutan, 2500 ft. {Dudgeon) ; Khasis. Exp. 34 millim. 

 Type in B.M. 



Genus ACHROIA. 

 Achroia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 163 (P1818). 



Type, A. grisella, Pabr. 



Range. Palaearctic, Oriental, and Australian regions. 



Palpi minute and porrect ; maxillary palpi minute ; frons 

 rounded ; antenna? minutely serrate ; tibia? roughly scaled. Fore 

 wing short and rounded ; male with a glandular fold fringed with 

 hair at base of costa below ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 stalked ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8 stalked, 9 stalked with 

 7, 8, from cell, or abnormally absent; 10 from cell; 11 absent. 

 Hind wing with the apex acute ; vein 2 from close to angle of cell ; 

 4 absent ; 3, 5 stalked ; 6, 7 stalked ; 7 anastomosing with 8 to 

 near apex. 



4148. Achroia grisella, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, pt. 2, p. 289. 



Achroia cinereola, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Bombyces, fig. 91. 



Uniform grey-brown ; the head yellow. 



Fig. 5. — Achroia grisella, $ . \. 



The larva feeds on the wax in bee-hives. 



Hab. Europe ; Calcutta ; Australia. Exp. 18-20 millim. 



Genus LAMOEIA. 

 Lamoria, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 87 (1863). 



Type, L. planalis, Wlk. 



Range. Pala?arctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions. 



Palpi of male minute ; of' female projecting about the length of 

 head and downcurved at extremity ; maxillary palpi filiform ; 

 frons with a conical tuft ; antennas simple. Pore wing of male with 

 a large glandular swelling at base of costa below ; vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; veins 4, 5 from angle, which is much pro- 

 duced; 8, 9 stalked from 7 ; 10, 11 free : female with vein 3 from 

 angle of cell, which is not produced ; 4, 5 stalked. Hind wing with 

 the cell open ; veins 2, 3, 4, 5 at regular intervals ; 7 anasto- 

 mosing with 8. 



