AZYGOPHLEPS; PHRAGMATAECIA. By M. Gaede. 
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C. lyonetii White (98 e). Thorax and forewing bluish-black, patagia white. Forewing with white spots, lyonelv. 
2 of which meet at the base, forming a V. Behind it 2 large spots below the costal margin and 2 at the 
inner margin. Small white spots at the distal margin. Hindwing blackish-blue without marking. 66 mm. 
King Georges Sound. Australia. 
13. Genus: Azygophleps limps. 
Shape of wings and marking somewhat similar to Xyleutes. Antennae of pectinate, of $ pectinate or 
dentate, hind tibiae without spurs. Veins 4 and 5 of hindwing arise from the same place, the other veins as 
in Xyleutes. Type: scalaris F. 
A. scalaris F. ( = bivittata Wkr.). This species which is also widely distributed in Africa has already scalaris. 
been dealt with in Vol. XIV, p. 545 and pi. 79 f. Ground-colour white with 2 orange stripes on the thorax 
and 2 similar radial stripes on the forewing. Forewing also with black reticulate lines. 40—56 mm. India 
and Indo-China, South China. 
A. albofasciata Mr. (98 e). Body blackish-brown, collar yellowish-white. Forewing dark brown, with albofascia 
thick black streaks at the costal margin. A broad radial band below it is yellowish-white in the types, 
but white according to the description; then fine black striae and reticulate lines as far as the inner margin. 
Hindwing pale brown with indistinct reticulate lines. 55—65 mm. Cashmir, Sikkim. East African specimens 
of inclusx WlJc. (Vol. XIV, pi. 79 f) are sometimes very similar. 
A. pusilla Wkr. (97 a). Similar to a tiny light albofasciata. Body white. Forewing white, densely striated pus ilia. 
black at the costal margin and below the cell, so that a purely white radial stripe remains from the base 
to the distal margin below the apex. Hindwing white. $ 26—36 mm. North India. Closely allied to asylas 
Or. from Africa. 
A. congerens Swh. (98 e). Body brownish-white. Wings white. Forewing with coarse black spots congerens. 
leaving a longitudinal stripe white in the cell and at the inner margin. A yellow radial streak of the original 
figure is not mentioned in the description, for which reason it probably does not exist; the resemblance to 
scalaris mentioned in the description is neither great. Hindwing white, the shape in the original figure 
wrong, <$ 62 mm. New Holland. 
A. coscinopa Loiver is said to resemble neuroxantha treated here as Xyleutes, which fact does not coscinopa. 
result from the description. Body whitish ash-grey. Forewing dingy white, uniformly finely striated black. 
The middle third from the base to the margin below the apex is dark, most intensely towards the costal 
margin. Hindwing whitish, somewhat diaphanous, striated blackish at the apex and inner margin. G 34 mm. 
West Australia. 
A. vittata Wkr. may be similar to congerens (98 e). White. Thorax with 3 brown stripes, abdomen vittata. 
with 3 rows of black spots. Forewing with 2 stripes of brown spots, one at the costal margin, the other 
discal and divided by a yellow line. A yellow spot at s / 4 of the lower margin at the first stripe. G 30'". 
Swan River. 
A. nurella Sivh. (97 a). Body and wings ochreous. Forewing with a greyish-brown costal margin; in nurella. 
the original figure also the distal third of the wing is greyish-brown. Both wings without any other marking, 
thus quite uncommon for a Cossid species. £ 50 mm. Chera Punji. 
14. Genus: Pliragmataeem Newm. 
Antennae of as in Xyleutes. Xeuration as in Azygophleps. Tibiae with short terminal spurs. Vein 
6 of hindwing almost nearer to 5 than to 7. Abdomen of $ extremely long in some specimens. Type : castaneae 
Him. 
Phr. castaneae Him. (Vol. II, pi. 54 h). The forms sacharum Mr. and innotata Wlk. are surely only syno- castaneae. 
nyma, minima Hmps. is probably only a rubbed specimen of the very small form minor Mr. (d 25 mm, nor¬ 
mally dark-coloured). Specimens from Canton are as small as minor, mostly finely and uniformly striated 
on the forewing, though single specimens also form transitions to the following form in the striation. —- 
sumatrensis Sn. (93 k) may be mentioned as a form. The specimens before me from Sumatra have a rather sumatren- 
light ground-colour with a dark cell. Between the veins behind and below the cell there are short black s,s - 
streaks which are partly fused horizontally. ‘Specimens from Java are smaller, and darker at the costal 
margin. If the whole forewing is darker, as it occurs in Java and Formosa, it may be denoted as: gummata 
Swh. If the dark forewing lacks the black stripes between the veins, it is impura Hmps. described from 
the Nilgiris. The latter two names are probably superfluous. -— sordida Snell. (93 k), from Borneo, Java and sordida. 
Sumatra, may be light or dark on the forewing. It exhibits 5 small black spots directly behind the cell 
above the bases of veins 2 —5, occasionally also one before the base of vein 2 . In sumatrensis the rows of dots 
begin farther outside. The fringes often also exhibit some dark dots. — hansi Strd. (93 k), from Formosa hansi. 
may be denoted as a combination of sumatrensis and sordida. The specimens are small (26 mm), dark ou 
