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thickly scaled; frons smooth, with large tuft of hair; antennae' 

 of male unipeetinate, typically with very short branches, the 

 apical part sen-ate, the shaft with large sinus and ridge of scales 

 at base ; mid and hind tibiae typically fringed with long hair. 

 Fore wing narrow, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; 

 vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 strongly stalked ; 6 

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

 wing with vein 3 closely approximated to 4, 5 for some distance ; 

 4, 5 strongly stalked ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with 7. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with the branches long ; mid tibiae fringed with hair at 

 base only, the hind tibiae al extremity only. 



(1) MoNOCTENOCERA LEUCANIA. 



Catagela leucania Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 137. f. 13 (1874); 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 63 ; id. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 312, pi. 51. 

 f. 17. 



Bab. Madras, Nilgiris ; Travancore ; Ceylon. 



Sect. II. Antenna; of male with short branches towards base, then serrate : mid and 

 hind tibia? fringed with long hair throughout. 



(2) Monoctenocera brachiella. 



Polyoclia brachiella Hmpsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xii. 

 p. 310 (1898) ; id. Rom. Mem. viii. p. 312, pi. 36. f. 6. 

 llab. Sikkim ; Bengal, Calcutta; Borneo. 



Genus Saborma. 



Type. 



Saborma Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 37 (1887) forcipella. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi of male upturned to about 

 vertex of head, slender, typically hollowed out to contain the 

 brush-like maxillary palpi ; frons smooth ; antennae of male 

 typically strongly serrate, with sinus and large double ridge of 

 scales at base. Fore wing narrow, the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved ; vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 strongly 

 stalked; 0 from below upper angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with vein 3 approximated for some distance to 

 4, 5 which are strongly stalked ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 not 

 anastomosing with 7. 



Sect. I. Palpi of male with the 2nd joint hollowed out to receive the brush-like 

 maxillary palpi ; antenna; serrate. 



(1) *8aborma forcipella. 



Saborma forcipella Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 37 (1888); id. Rom. 

 Mem. viii. p, 310, pi. 35. f. 22, 

 Sumatra. 



