PYRALID/E, SUBFAMILY HYPSOT ROPING. 



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the 3rd moderate; maxillary palpi slight and filiform; Irons 

 broad, with a disk of concentric white scales converging to middle ; 

 antenna? of male strongly serrate, with a large sinus and ridge of 

 scales at base of shaft. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved ; vein 2 from well before 

 angle of cell ; 3 from before angle ; 4, 5 from angle : 6 from 

 below upper angle; 8, 9 stalked; 10, 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from before angle of cell ; 3 and 5 from angle, 

 4 absent ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 not anastomosing with 7. 



, *DlSCOFRONTlA NORMELLA. 



Disco frontia normella Hmpsn. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 350, pi. 52. 

 f. 20 (1901). 

 Natal. 



Genus Critonia, 



. • . Type. 



Critonia Rag. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. ccxiv. subconcinnella. 



Singhalia Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xii. 

 p. 309 (1898) ; id. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 351 

 (1901) sarcoglauca. 



Proboscis aborted and minute ; palpi typically downcurved, 

 extending about three times length of head and moderately 

 scaled; maxillary palpi small and filiform; frons smooth and 

 with slight tuft of hair ; antennae of male typically serrate and 

 fasciculate, the shaft with sinus at base containing a large ridge 

 of scales. Fore wing rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 

 4, 5 from just above angle; 6 from below upper angle; 8, 9 

 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell, 10 approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing 

 with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell and approximated for a 

 short distance, 4 absent ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 not anastomos- 

 ing with 7. 



Sect. I. Palpi of male obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint hollowed out to receive 

 the brush-like maxillary palpi, the 3rd short; antennae laminate, with large 

 sinus and ridge of scales at base of shaft. 



(1) f Critonia ph^eoneura, sp. n. 



d . Head and thorax whitish suffused with red-brown ; abdo- 

 men ochreous white, dorsally fulvous yellow towards base ; 

 pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish 

 tinged with red-brown, the veins except on inner area blackish 

 defined on each side by fine white streaks ; the costal area white, 

 narrowing to apex and defined below by a red-brown shade, the 

 costal edge brown to beyond middle and the veins on costal area 

 finely streaked with black ; a minute antemedial black spot on 

 vein 1 , a point at middle of submedian fold and minute post- 

 medial streaks above vein 2 and on vein 1 ; cilia flesh-white with 



