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PTEALID-iE. 



P. (Calguia). Palpi long, in female with a tuft of hair at extremity of 

 2nd joint behind, the 3rd joint thickly scaled, the maxillary palpi 

 long ; in male the brush-like maxillary palpi very long, the 3rd 

 joint of palpi curved and pointing forwards at extremity ; antennas 

 with the sinus and ridge of scales very large ; the shaft with 

 fasciculate cilia ; hind tibia? thickly fringed with hair and with 

 a tuft of long hair from base. 



4409. Phycita defiguralis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 83. 



Cabragus auritipalpus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 371, pi. 184, fig. 9 ; 



Rag. Mon. Phijc. p. 442, pi. xiii, fig. 23 ; C. 8f S. no. 4611. 

 Sigtnartliria palpella, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 23. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous black ; maxillary palpi ochreous ; 

 abdomen ochreous. Fore wing with the base chestnut ; an oblique 



57. — Phycita defigitralis, <$ 



grey antemedial band, with whitish outer edge and diffused purplish 

 fuscous beyond it, widest at costa ; the rest of the wing greyish ; 

 two dark discocellular specks ; a dark patch on apical part of costa ; 

 a grey submarginal line defined by brown, bent outwards and 

 minutely dentate between veins 5 and 2 ; a marginal series of dark 

 specks. Hind wing fuscous. 



2 with the vertex of head pink ; the thorax purplish ; the hind 

 wing semihyaline and almost white. 



Hab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Borneo. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus RHODOPILEA. 



Rhodophsea, Guen. Eur. Microlep. Ind. Meth. p. 74 (1845). 

 Eurhodope, Hiibn. Verz. p. 371 (? 1818), non descr. 

 Acrobasis, Zell. Isis, 1848, p. 606. 

 Aurana, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 122 (1863). 

 Succadaua, Rag. Nouv. Gen. Phyc. p. 13 (1888). 

 Mineola, Hidst, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 126. 

 Ancova, Bag. Mon. Phyc. p. 149 (1894). 



Type, B. advenella, Zinck., from Europe. 



Bange. "Universally distributed. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching vertex of head,, 

 the 3rd acuminate; maxillary palpi filiform. Pore wing sub- 

 triangular ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 10 

 free. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 3 from 

 angle ; 4, 5 stalked 56,7 from upper angle or shortly stalked, 

 7 anastomosing with 8. 



