120 PTEALID.E. 



in cell. Hind wing with the costal half dark purple-brown ; a 

 white streak below median nervure diffused beyond lower angle 

 of cell ; the inner area rufous. 



Hab. Bhutan, 2500 feet {Dudgeon). Exp. 32 millim. Type 

 in B. M. 



Genus STERICTA. 



Stericta, Zed. W.ien. ent. Mon. vii, p. 340 (1863). 

 Glossina, Guen. Belt. 8f Pyr. p. 124 (1854), praeocc. 

 Craneophora, Christ. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1881, lvi (1), p. 1. 

 Sarama, Moore, Lep. Ath. p. 203 (1888) . 

 Belenopholis, Butl. III. Set. vii, p. 89 (1890). 

 Trichotophysa, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 457 (1896). 



Type, S. divitalis, Guen. 



Range. Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, and Australian regions. 

 Palpi upturned and smoothly scaled, the second joint reaching 

 above vertex of head, the 3rd long ; tibiae slightly fringed with 

 hair ; hind tibia? with a terminal tuft on outer side. Fore wing 

 with the apex rounded ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from- 

 angle ; 6 from or from above upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 

 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 6, 7 on a short stalk. 



Sect. I. Antennas of male with a long flagellate process on 1st 

 joint recurved over the thorax and fringed below with long 

 scales. Palpi of male with the 2nd joint hollowed out to- 

 receive the brush-like maxillary palpi. 



A. Antennae, of male minutely ciliated. 



a. (Stericta). Fore xving with slight tufts of scales below and 

 beyond cell. 



4457. Stericta clivitalis, Guen. Belt, fy Pt/r. p. 124, pi. 7, fig. 4 ; C.&S.- 



no. 4473. 

 Locastra phereciusalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 159. 



Head rufous; thorax green; abdomen suffused with rufous. 

 Pore wing bright rufous irrorated with black ; a yellowish-green 

 basal patch with black specks on it and indistinct subbasal line ; 

 a black-edged green antemedial line angled above inner margin, 

 the green being diffused outwards through the cell to the black- 

 edged slightly-curved postmedial line and between veins 3 and 4 

 to the outer margin ; two black specks in end of cell ; a marginal 

 series of black lunules. Hind wing reddish brown ; cilia of both 

 wings pink. Underside of hind wing with the basal half pale ;. 

 a curved medial line. 



Hab. Assam ; Ceylon ; Borneo. Exp. 35 millim. 



4458. Stericta rufescens, n. sp. 



C? . Pale and dark fed-brown ; antennal processes black at tips. 

 Pore wing dark red-brown, with pale patches at base of costa 



