PYRALIUiE, SUBFAMILY HYPSOTROPIN M. 



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(8) Critonia ochracealis. 



Oritonia ochracealis Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xxi. 

 p. 1251 (1912). 



Punjab, Kangra ; Madras, Nilgiris. 



(9) *Crxtonia hilgerti. 



Pectinigeria hilgerti Roths. Nov. Zool. xxii. p. 236. 

 Algeria. 



B. Antenna^ of male laminate and without sinus and ridge of scales at base of 

 shaft. 



a. {Singhalia.) Palpi of male with the 2nd joint obliquely upturned to vertex 



of head and thickly scaled, the 3rd porrect, long and blunt. 



(10) tORPTONIA SARCOGLAUCA. 



Critonia sarcoglauca Hmpsn. Moths Incl. iv. p. 60 (1896); id. 

 Rom. Mem. viii. p. 351, pi. 51. f. 24. 

 Ceylon. 



b. Palpi of male downcurved and extending about three times length of bead. 



(11) Critonia rhodessa. 



Malaria rhodessa Turner, Pr. R. Soc. Queensl. xviii. p. 120 

 (1903). 



Queensland. 



(12) fCRITONIA SARCOIDA, Sp. n. 



Head and thorax purplish pink, the head and shoulders 

 tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreous white, dorsally fulvous 

 yellow towards base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdo- 

 men ochreous tinged with brown. Fore wing purplish pink, the 

 costal area tinged with brown ; the veins, discal fold in the cell, 

 and submedian fold white defined on each side by fine purplish- 

 pink streaks, the median nervure rather more strongly streaked 

 with white and with a brown streak below it. Hind wing 

 ochreous white, the costal area tinged with brown. 



Br. E. Africa, Njora (Cholmley), 1 $ ; Br. C. Africa, 

 Mt. Mlanje (jYeave), 3 5 ; Portuguese E. Africa, Kola Valley 

 (iVeave), 3 $ ; Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 1 2 j Trans- 

 vaal (Pead), 1 6 type. Exp. 28-34 mm. 



Genus Monoctenocera. 



Type. 



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



p. 310 (1898) ; id. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 311 (1901). brachiella. 



Proboscis aborted and minute ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 

 2nd joint reaching to just above vertex of head and hollowed out 

 to receive the brush-like maxillary palpi, the 3rd short and 



