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Sect. II. Antennae of male with the shaft annulate and longer. 



4751. Mabra nigriscripta, Swinh. A.M.N. H. (6) xvi, p. 802. 



Bright orange ; palpi fuscous. Fore wing with obliquely curved 

 rufous antemedial line ; a black annulus on middle of costa ; a 

 rufous discocellular line surrounded by a large annulus conjoined 

 to another annulus below lower augle of cell ; a postmedial rufous 

 line black at costa, nearly straight to vein 2, then slightly retracted. 

 Hind wing with slightly irregular subbasal ante- and postmedial 

 lines, the last slightly retracted at vein 2 ; both wings with the 

 marginal area darker ; a black marginal line and the cilia white. 



Hob. Khasis. Exp. 16 millim. 



Subfamily SCOPARIINtE. 



Proboscis present ; maxillary palpi well developed and dilated 

 with scales at extremity. Fore wing with more or less developed 

 tufts of raised scales in cell ; vein 7 from angle ; 10 free. Hind 

 wing with the median nervure non-pectinate *; vein 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



The larvae feed on mosses and lichens, and the imagos rest on 

 rocks and trees except in a few ancestral forms in New Zealand, 

 which are grass-feeders. 



Key to the Genera. 



A. Palpi upturned 1. Micraglossa, p. 241, 



B. Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd 



joint bidden by hair. 



a. Hind wing with vein 5 from lower angle 



of cell or stalked with 4 2. Scoparia, p. 242. 



b. Hind wing with vein 5 from above angle 



of cell , 3. Dasyscopa, p. 245. 



Genus MICRAGLOSSA. 



Micraglossa, Warr. A.M.N. H. (6) viii, p. 65 (1891). 



Type, M. scoparialis, Warr. 



Range. Sikhim ; Khasis. 



Palpi upturned ; the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and 

 slightly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd well developed and 

 acuminate ; maxillary palpi long and slightly dilated with scales at 

 extremity ; frons rounded ; antennas somewhat annulate ; tibiae 

 nearly naked, with the spurs almost equal. Pore wing with vein 3 

 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight and well 

 separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



* Except in one or two Australasian genera. 

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