300 



PYRALIDiE. 



abdomen long, male with the anal tuft large. Tore wing with the 

 costa arched towards apex ; the outer margin oblique ; veins 3, 4, 5 

 radiating from angle of cell ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9, 

 to which 10 also is closely approximated. Hind wing with vein 3 

 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 closely approximated for a short distance ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



4874. Nevrina procopia, Cram. Pap. Kvot. iv, pi. 368, fig. E ; Moore, 

 Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 182, fig. 1 ; C. $ S. no. 4219. 



Head' and thorax orange ; abdomen whitish, with dorsal and 

 paired lateral series of black patches. Fore wing with the basal 

 third orange ; a black spot at base and an antemedial spot below 



Fig. 178. — Nevrina procopia, $ . \. 



median nervure. Hind wing with the basal inner area and a 

 discocellular spot orange ; both wings with a hyaline medial band ; 

 the outer half purplish fuscous, the veins white. 

 fi Bdb. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Java ; Amboina. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus PHRYGANODES. 



Phryganodes, Guen. Belt. $ Tyr. p. 353 (1854). 

 Omiodes, Guen. Delt. 8f Pyr. p. 355. 

 Ccenostola, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 408. 

 Nagia, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1320 (1865). 

 Condega, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 344 (1886). 

 Charema, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 218 (1888). 



Type, P. plicatalis, Gruen., from Brazil. 



Range. Neotropical region ; India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Malayan 

 and Australasian subregions. 



Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the 2nd and 3rd 

 joints conically scaled and tapering to the apex ; maxillary palpi 

 filiform ; frons rounded ; antennae nearly as long as fore wing and 

 minutely ciliated ; tibise with the outer spurs about half the length 

 of inner ; abdomen long. Pore wing with the costa arched 

 towards apex which is produced, the outer margin obliquely rounded, 

 the inner margin somewhat lobed towards base ; veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 angle of cell, 7 approximated to 8, 9 for about one-third length ; 

 10 closely approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing with the costa arched 

 at middle ; the cell short ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



The typical species has the neuration much distorted in male. 



