312 PTRALID^E. 



b. Hind tibice of male fringed with long hair on both sides. 



4910. Dichocrocis xuthusalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 691. 

 Botys onustalis, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 587. 



Fuscous brown ; palpi pale at base ; fore legs bauded fuscous 

 and white ; abdomen with black baud ou subterminal segment, the 

 tip black aud white. Pore wiug with oblique black subbasal and 

 antemedial hues, the former with the outer edge, the latter with 

 the inner edge pale; a discocellular black lunule; an oblique 

 black postmedial line with pale outer edge, slightly sinuous below 

 vein 2. Hind wing with black line from upper angle of cell to 

 anal angle, edged by white on outer side below the cell, and almost 

 met at lower angle of cell by a pale-edged black postmedial line. 

 Both wings with a prominent white marginal line widening to anal 

 angle of hind wing, and a black line at base of cilia which are 

 fuscous. Underside grey. 



Hub. Sikhim ; Borneo. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus NACOLEIA. 



Nacoleia, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 934 (1859). 

 Hedylepta, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 409. 

 Blepharoniastix, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 422. 

 Pelycyntis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 315. 

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

 Thvsanodesma, Butt. 111. Het. vii, p. 96 (1889). 

 Ap'lomastix, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) vi, p. 478 (1890). 

 Metasciodes, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 8. 

 Tvlostega, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 457. 

 Macrospectrodes, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 94 (1896). 

 Idiusia, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 98. 

 Preneopogon, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 146. 

 Oithocona, Warr. A. M. N. S. (6) xviii, p. 214 (1896). 



Type, N. rliceoalis. Wlk., from Australia. 



Range. The tropical and subtropical zones. 



Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint broadly 

 angled with scales, the 3rd short with a small triangular tuft in 

 front ; maxillary palpi usually slightly dilated with scales ; frons 

 rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; the patagia usually with a 

 tuft of hair extending beyond the metathorax; tibiae with the 

 outer spurs usually half the length of inner. Pore wing with 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 well separated from 8, 9, to 

 which 10 is approximated. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male without tuft of scales at middle. 



A. (Macrospectrodes). Hind wing of male with a large hyaline vesicle 

 on inner margin ; patagia without spreading tuft of scales. 



4911. Nacoleia subargentalis, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 579. 



c? . Uniform glossy- fuscous, the hind wing paler. Underside 



