MEROCTENA. THLIPTOCERAS. 



377 



below costa to vein 5 



Fig. 203. — Meroctena tullalis, rf 



a highly sinuous subniarginal line with 

 the area beyond it rufous. 

 Hind wing with discocellular 

 lunule; indistinct postmedial 

 line strongly bent outwards 

 between veins 5 and 2, below 

 which it is diffused ; a rufous 

 apical patch and dark streak 

 towards anal angle ; both 

 wings with a black line at 



base of cilia, which are pure white with black points. 



Hab. Sikhiin ; Assam ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Pulo Laut ; 

 Java ; Amboina. Exp. 38 millim. 



Genus THLIPTOCERAS. 



Thliptoceras, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 274. 

 Prophantis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 113 (1896). 



Type, T. cascale, Swinh. 



Range. S. Africa ; Japan ; Indian, Ceylonese, and Malayan sub- 

 regions to N. Australia. 



Palpi porrect, straight, and about twice the length of head, the 

 2nd joint fringed above and below with hair, the 3rd prominent ; 

 maxillary palpi filiform ; f rons rounded ; hind tibia? with the outer 

 median spur minute. Pore wing produced at apex ; the outer 

 margin oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 7 well 

 separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with the cell short ; the disco- 

 cellulars produced along vein 4, which is approximated to 5 ; 

 6, 7 stalked, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. 



Sect. I. (Thliptoceras). Antenna? of male with two curved teeth 

 on basal joint forming an upturned cavity, the basal part of 

 the shaft curved, then expanded into a cavity formed of 

 short appressed pectinations. 



5086. 



271, 



Thliptoceras cascale, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 



pi. 8, fig. 18. 

 Thliptoceras variabilis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 274; 



Hmpsn. Ill, Het. viii, pi. 156, figs. 2-10. 

 Circohotys phycidalis, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 599. 



S . Bright straw-colour. Pore 

 wing with indistinct slightly 

 sinuous antemedial erect line ; 

 a discocellular speck ; a post- 

 medial minutely waved line 

 slightly curved from costa to 

 vein 3, then retracted to origin 

 of vein 2. Hind wing with 

 oblique postmedial line. 

 $ with the fore wing broader and less produced at apex. 



Fig. 204. 

 Thliptoceras cascale, g. 



