OLIGOCENTRIS. — DICHOCEOCTS. 305 



4889. Oligocentris deciusalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 696; JSmpsn. Ill- 

 Set. ix, pi. 173, fig. 13 ; C. $ S. no. 4161. 



c? . Yellowish brown with a slight cupreous tinge ; fore tibiae 



with a black baud. Fore 

 wing with obliquely curved 

 antemedial line; traces of 

 a speck in cell and another 

 on discocellulars ; both 

 wings with an obscure post- 

 medial line excurved from 



Fig. I80.-Oliffocentris deciusalis, tf. i. costa to Tein 2 > then re- 

 tracted nearly to angle of 



cell and excurved again. Underside greyish. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Pulo Laut. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus DICHOCROCIS. 



Dichocrocis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 447. 

 Conogethes, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 314. 

 Gadessa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 278 (1886). 

 Dadessa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 333. 

 Phfedropsis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) vi, p. 476 (1890). 

 Orthospila, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) vi, p. 477. 

 Zebrodes, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 104 (1896). 



Type, D. pandamalis, Wlk. 



Range. Japan and throughout the Oriental and Australian 

 regions. 



Palpi upturned, conical, and hardly reaching vertex of head ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; antennae of male some- 

 what thickened and almost simple; tibiae with the outer spurs 

 less than half the length of inner ; mid tibiae fringed with spinous 

 hair on outer side. Fore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of 

 cell ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9 * ; 10 approximated 

 to 8, 9. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 separate 

 at origin or slightly approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 shortly 

 stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Sect. I. {Dadessa). Hind wing of male with a small tuft of scales 

 on upperside at origin of vein 2, and a tuft of thick short 

 black hair on vein 16 above anal angle, the veins somewhat 

 distorted ; hind leg with a tuft of black hair on outer side of 

 1st joint of tarsus. 



4890. Dichocrocis evaxalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 995 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 

 iii, pi. 183, fig. 3 ; C. #. S. no. 4029. 

 Botys aureolalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 473. 



c? . Differs from punctiferalis in the spots being smaller ; fore 



* In evaxalis, punctiferalis, and festivalis vein 7 is somewhat approximated 

 to 8, 9 at base, and 4, 5 of hind wing somewhat approximated, especially in the 

 males. 



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