216 PYRALID.E. 



4690. Aulacodes dominalis, Wlh. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1337 ; C.$S. no. 4420. 

 Oligostigma peribocalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, pi. 156, fig. 4: 



{nee Wlh.). 



Differs from peribocalis in the markings of fore wing being 

 fulvous ; the marginal band and usually the fascia on inner area 

 yellow. Hind wing with a small dark patch at base of inner area 

 widely separated from the postmedial band; the marginal black 

 spots elongate and indented below the white centres, the lowest 

 spot obsolescent and without white centre. 



Hal. Nilgiris. Exp., $ 24-30, $ 40 millim. 



Genus PARTHENODES. 



Parthenodes, Guen. Belt. $ Pyr. p. 252 (1854). 

 Paracymoriza, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) vi, p. 479 (1890). 



Type, P. hydrocampalis, Guen., from Brazil. 



Range. Neotropical and Ethiopian regions ; India ; Burma ; 

 Sumatra; Java. 



Palpi porrect, straight, and projecting about the length of head, 

 the 2nd joint fringed with hair below, the 3rd short and naked ; 

 maxillary palpi large and triangularly scaled ; frons rounded ; 

 antennae of male thickened and flattened ; legs naked, the outer 

 spurs about two-thirds length of inner. Fore wing with veins 

 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell, 7 straight and well separated from 

 8, 9, 10. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell, which is 

 about half the length of wing ; 4, 5 approximated for a short 

 distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect. I. (Parthenodes). Mid tibiae of male with no fold or fringe 

 of hair ; hind coxae without tufts ; wings with the outer 

 margin evenly rounded. 



4691. Parthenodes olivalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 140, pi. 155, 



% 8(d). 

 Paracvmoriza dentifascialis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 141. pi. 155, 

 fig. 21(?). 



3 . Olive-brown suffused with fuscous and grey ; abdomen with 

 pale rings. Pore wing with obscure curved subbasal and ante- 

 medial pale lines ; the latter dentate below vein 2 ; a white spot 

 on discocellulars, with diffused black patch beyond it; a black- 

 edged white postmedial line minutely waved from costa to vein 3, 

 then retracted to lower angle of cell and strongly angled outwards 

 above inner margin ; a series of black and white submarginal 

 lunules, the 3rd from costa expanding into a large white spot. 

 Hind wing fuscous ; a dark discocellular spot with oblique line 

 from it to near anal angle ; the postmedial line excurved from 

 costa to vein 2, then incurved and almost joining the antemedial 

 line ; a dark submarginal hue ; both wings with the base of cilia 

 black. 



$ . Darker ; the thorax more suffused with white. Pore wing 



