CRAMBIFORMA. — PRIONOPTERINA. 
615 
Hind wing white suffused with pale red-brown especially on 
terminal area. Underside of fore wing pale red-brown, the 
costa towards apex and inner area white ; hind wing white 
tinged with pale red-brown except the cell and inner area 
and the costa towards apex. 
Hab. Abyssinia, Harrar {Degen), 1 $ type. Exp. 32 
milliru. 
Genus EPIMECIODES, nov. 
Type, E. abunda, Feld. {Epimecia), Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 108. 
f. 46 (1874). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint reaching about to vertex of head and fringed with 
long hair above and below, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; frons 
smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennse of male ciliated ; 
thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without crests ; a tuft 
of hair from below origin of fore wing ; tibiae nearly smoothly 
scaled ; build slender ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing 
rather long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen 
obliquely curved and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before 
angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6 from just below 
upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 
areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 
of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 
8 anastomosing with the cell to near extremity. 
Germs PRIONOPTERINA, nov. 
Type, P. grammatistis, Meyr. ( Prionophora ), Trans. Ent. 
Soc. 1897, p. 374. . . , ^ _ , ... 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the _,nd pint 
obliquely upturned to vertex of head, slender, slightly fringe 
with scales in front and with hair behind towards extremity, 
the 3rd short, oblique, thickly scaled ; frons smooth, with 
slight ridge of scales above ; eyes large, round ; antennse of 
male typically with long bristles and cilia ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales, the prothorax with oblique crest ; 
tibife smoothly scaled ; build slender ; abdomen smoothly 
scaled and without crests. Fore wing narrow, the apex 
somewhat produced and acute, the termen obliquely curved 
and not crenulate ; vein 3 from well before angle o ! cell 
5 from above angle ; 6 from below upper angle ; 9 from 10 
anastomosing with 8 to form the areole, 7 s jom ie times from 
beyond the areole ; 11 from, cell ; a fringe of hair- from below 
base of costa on underside. Hind wing ^ 
E-mn half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle , o fully 
developfd from fust, above angle; 6 7 from upper angle; 
8 anastomosing with the cell to beyond middle. 
