302 psychid^e. 



645. Mahasena hockingi, Moore, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 397 ; Butl. III. 



Het. vii, pi. 121, fig. 5 ; C. $ S. no. 496 a. 



c? . Very dark red-brown ; the hairs on thorax and abdomen 

 blackish ; hind wing with veins 4 and 5 stalked ; the fork of the 

 veinlets in the cell of both wings short. 

 Hab. Kangra. Exp. 32 millirn. 



Genus PTEROXYS. 

 Pteroxys, Hmpsn. III. Set. ix, ined. 



Type, P. goniatus, Hinpsn. 



Range. Ceylon. 



S . Antenna? with the branches long and plumose. Fore tibia 

 without a spine. Wings long and narrow. Fore wing with reins 

 1 b and c anastomosing ; 8 and 9 stalked. Hind wing with a bar 

 between veins 7 and 8. Veinlets in the cell of both wings forked. 



Sect. I. Vein 6 absent in both wings. 



646. Pteroxys goniatus, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, ined., pi. 150, fig. 20, 



pi. 176, fig. 14 (larva-case). 



3 . Uniform brownish fuscous ; the apices of both wings 

 pointed. 



Larva-case formed of comminuted fragments of vegetable matter. 

 Hab. Pundaloya, Ceylon. Exp. 12 millim. 



Sect. II. Vein 6 present in both wings. 



647. Pteroxys uniformis, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, ined., pi. 159, fig. 17, 



pi. 176, fig. 15 (larva-case). 



S . Uniform dark brown ; the apices of the wings less acute. 

 Larva-case very short and formed of small pieces of twigs 

 arranged transversely in a quadrangle. 



Hab. Pundaloya, Ceylon. Exp. 14 millim. 



Subfamily CANEPHORIN^, Heyl. 



3 . Fore wing with veins 1 6 and c not anastomosing ; 1 b not 

 giving off a branch. Hind tibiae with two pair of spurs. 



Genus MOFFATIA. 

 Moffatia, Moore, J. A. S. B. lix, pt. 2, p. 263 (1890). 



Type, M. plumicauda, Moore. 



Mange. Kunawar. 



Antennae plumose ; abdomen with very long lateral tufts of 

 hair from base to apex. Fore wing with vein 1 c not anastomosing 

 with 1 b ; veins 4 and 5 on a sh ort stalk ; 8 and 9 stalked. Hind 

 wing with vein 6 absent ; 8 co nnected with 7 by a bar ; veinlet 

 in cell of both wings single. 



