76 PYEALID.E. 



Genus MICROTHRIX. 

 Microthrix, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 25 (1888). 



Type, M. inconspicuella, Rag. 



Range. S. Africa ; Punjab ; Burma. 



Palpi upturned, reaching well above vertex of head, the 2nd 

 joint in male hollowed out and enclosing the maxillary palpi, which 

 end in a tuft of hair ; frons smooth ; antenna? of male thickened 

 and flattened, with a sinus at base with a ridge of scales in it ; 

 tibiae rather thickly scaled. Pore wing long and narrow ; veins 2 

 and 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 10, 11 free. Hind 

 wing with vein 2 from near angle of cell ; 3, 4, 5 stalked ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



4349. Microthrix inconspicuella, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 17 ; id. Mon. 

 Phyc. p. 324, pi. xiii, fig. 17 ; C. $ S. no. 4580. 

 Microthrix fuscidorsella, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 25. ■ 



<3 . Maxillary palpi white ; antenna? black ; head, thorax, and 



abdomen pale brown tinged with fuscous. Pore wing pale brown, 



with an olive tinge and irro- 

 rated with fuscous : a brown 

 and fuscous antemedial patch 

 on inner area surrounded 

 with grey ; an indistinct 

 medial line angled outwards 

 below costa and inwards on 



Fig. 51.— Microthrix inconspicuella, <$ . \. vein 1 ; two dark discocellular 



specks ; traces of an oblique 



submarginal line with grey outer edge. Hind wing pale fuscous ; 



the cilia pale, with a dark line through them. 

 Hah. Natal ; Punjab ; Burma. Exp. 18 millim. 



Genus NEPHOPTERYX. 



Nephoptervx, Hiibn. Verz. p. 370 (1818 P). 



Salebria, Zell. Ms, 1846, p. 779. 



Ceutholopha, Zell. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 375. 



Thylacoptila, Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mac/. 1885, p. 105. 



Bussa, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 24 (1888). 



Oligochroa, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 20. 



Palibothra, Raq. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1889, p. ccxviii. 



Melathrix, Raq. Mon. Phyc. p. 435 (1894). 



Pristarthria, Rag. Mon. Phyc. p. 326 (1894). 



Type, N. rlienella, Zinck., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd 

 -short and acuminate ; frons roughly scaled ; antenna? of male 

 typically with a sinus at base of shaft containing a ridge of scales ; 

 tibia? thickly scaled, the outer spurs about two-thirds length of 

 inner. Fore wing with the apex somewhat rounded ; vein 3 from 

 before angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for some distance ; 10 free. 



