142 pyualid^e. 



Genus ROSTRIPALPUS, nov. 



Type, B. longipennis, Hmpsn. 



Range. S. India ; Ceylon. 



Palpi rostriform, curved downwards and reaching well beyond 

 the slight frontal tuft ; maxillary palpi minute ; antennae of 

 female minutely ciliated ; tibia? with the spurs long. Fore wing 

 very long, narrow, and produced at apex ; vein 3 from angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 stalked ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



4511. Rostripalpus longipennis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 128, pi. 154, 

 fig. 20. 



5 . Dull purplish irrorated 

 with fuscous. Fore wing with 

 pale specks on outer half of costa ; 

 indistinct erect black medial and 

 postmedial lines ; a fuscous disco- 

 cellular spot. Hind wing with 

 indistinct antemedial and medial 

 j<i„ si . black lines, highly angled at 



Bostripalpus longipennis, § . §. middle ; both wings with a pale 



line at base of cilia. 



Hab. Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Eocp. 16 millim. 



Genus COTACHENA. 

 Cotachena, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 275 (1885). 



Type, C. liistricalis, Wlk. 



Mange. China ; India ; Ceylon ; Solomons. 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair : 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; antennae of male with 

 long cilia ; hind tibiae with the outer medial spur about half the 

 length of the inner. Pore wing with the retinaculum formed by 

 a large valve of scales from below median nervure in both sexes ; 

 the costa arched towards apex ; the outer margin oblique ; the cell 

 short ; vein 3 from beyond angle of cell ; 4, 5 closely approxi- 

 mated for about half their length. Hind wing with the cell very 

 short ; vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for about one- 

 fourth length ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing strongly 

 with 8. 



4512. Cotachena liistricalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 655; Hmpsn. III. 

 Het. ix, pi. 172, fig. 5 ; C. $ S. no. 4355. 

 Archernis pubescens, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix, p. 300. 



