316 



HEPIALID^E. 



677. Encaumaptera stigmata, Hmpm. III. Het. viii, p. 66, pi. 144, 

 fig. 1. 



3 ■ Mouse-grey. Tore wing with a patch of short scales below 

 the end of the cell, with a copper-coloured longitudinal streak 

 below it from which two black bands run to inner margin, the 

 inner one oblique, the outer erect ; a patch of sbort black scales 



Fig. 216. 



beyond the end of the cell, with a small copper spot at its lower 

 extremity ; and a dark band from the costa to its upper extremity; 

 a dark band from the costa near the apex ; outer area with some 

 dark stria?. Hind wing Daler. 



Bab. Nilgiris, 3500 feet. Exp. 40 millim. 



Family HEPIALIME. 



Proboscis absent; palpi usually absent. Antennas very short 

 and filiform. Legs short and without spurs. Fore wing with 

 vein 1 a forming a fork with b or separate ; a bar from vein 12 to 

 the costa near the base. Hind wing with 12 veins ; 3 internal 

 veins ; a bar from vein 12 to the costa near the base ; veinlets in 

 the cell of both wings forked. Frenulum absent. 



Larvce internal feeders in wood or the roots of grasses &c* 



Key to the Genera 



a. Palpi present. Fore wing with no bar 



between vein 1 b and median nervure . . 



b. Palpi absent. Fore wing with a bar 



between vein 1 b and median nervure. 

 a . Veins 8, 9, 10 of both wings stalked 

 b' " 



1. Palpifer, p. 316. 



2. Hepialiscus, p. 317. 



— _, _, — — — D „„ . . 



Vein 10 of both wings not stalked with 

 8 and 9 3. Phassus, p. 318. 



Genus PALPIFER, nov. 



Type, P. sexnotatus, Moore. 

 Range. Himalayas ; Ceylon ; Tenasserim. 



Palpi large, rounded, and ascending. Antennas short and seti- 

 ferous. Legs hairy ; tibiae without spurs. Fore wing without a 



* Next to the Hepialidee would come the Micropterygidce, if the Heterocera 

 could be arranged in a linear series. 



