CNAPHALOCBOCIS. MAEASMIA. 275 



Genus CNAPHALOCROCIS. 



Cnaphalocrocis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 384. 



Type, C. medinalis, Guen. 



Range. Japan ; the Oriental and Australian regions. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly scaled in front, the 3rd 

 with short triangular tuft ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons flat and 

 oblique ; antennae annulated ; tibiae with the outer spurs half the 

 length of inner. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 

 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9 ; 10, 11 stalked : male with 

 erect triangular tufts of hair on upperside from subcostal and 

 median nervures at middle of cell, with a depression of the wing- 

 membrane between them and a downwardly-directed postmedial 

 tuft from costa. Hind wing with the cell short ; veins 3, 4, 5 

 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8 almost 

 to apex. 



4814. Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, Guen. Belt. 8? Pyr. p. 201 ; C. $ 8. 

 no. 4118. 

 Botys rutilalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 665. 

 Botys iolealis, Wik. Cat. xviii, p. 666. 

 Godara jolinalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, pi. 12, fig. 7. 

 Botys nurscialis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 724. 

 Botys acerrimalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1449. 



Ochreous ; the head and collar fuscous ; palpi white below ; 

 abdomen ringed with fuscous and white towards extremity; the 



anal tuft black, striped with 

 white. Fore wing with the costal 

 and outer areas broadly fuscous ; 

 a slightly curved antemedial line ; 

 a discocellular line and straight 

 oblique postmedial line. Hind 

 wing with discocellular speck ; 

 -p. , fi g an oblique postmedial line bent 



Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, tf. \. inwards to anal angle ; the outer 



area fuscous, tapering to anal 

 angle ; a black marginal line and line through the cilia. 



In the Australian form nurscialis most specimens have the outer 

 area ochreous between the dark submarginal and marginal lines. 



Hab. Japan ; throughout the Oriental and Australian regions. 

 Exp. 20 milhm. 



Genus MAEASMIA. 



Marasmia, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 385. 

 Dolichosticha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 304. 

 Epimima, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 235. 

 Lasiacme, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 176. 

 Type, M. venilialis, Wlk. 

 Range. The tropical zone. 



Differs from Cnaphalocrocis in vein 10 of fore wing being very 

 closely approximated to 8, 9 instead of stalked with 11 ; the 

 secondary sexual characters different or absent. 



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