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Show 1899.] OF T H E S U B F A M I L Y PYRAUSTIN^E. 179 joint fringed above and below Avith hair, the 3rd prominent : maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; hind tibiae Avith the outer medial spur minute. Fore wing produced at apex, the outer margin oblique ; veins 3, 5 from close to angle of cell ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with the cell short; the discocellulars produced along vein 4, Avhich is approximated to 5 ; 6, 7 stalked, 7 anastomosing strongly Avith 8. SECT. I. (Thliptoceras). Antennae of male with two curved teeth on basal joint forming an upturned cavity, the basal part of shaft curved, then expanded into a cavity formed of short appressed pectinations. Type. (I^THLIPTOCERAS CASCALE Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 271, pi. 8. f. 18. Japan ; India, Ceylon, & Burma. Thliptoceras variabilis Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 274 ; Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii. pi. 156. ff. 2, 10. Circobotysphycidalis Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 599. SECT. II. Antennae of male Avith the basal joint excised and with a slight tuft of hair from inner side ; fore wing less produced at apex, the costa highly arched before middle. Hind Aving with the inner area clothed with long hair; patagia extending beyond metathorax. (2)*THLTPTOCERAS STYGIALE Hmpsn. Moths of India, iv. p. 378. Assam. SECT. III. (Prophantis). Antennae of male ciliated. (3) THLIPTOCERAS OCTOGUTTALE Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 135. f. 38. Natal; Indian & Malayan subregions to Australia. fPyralis smaragdina Butl. A. M . N . H . (4) xvi. p. 411 (1875). (4)*THLIPTOCERAS DISTICTALIS, n. sp. 2. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale reddish brown; palpi blackish at sides, whitish beloAv ; wings purplish brown. Fore wing Avith tAvo obliquely placed orange subbasal points and some diffused orange on inner margin; a white bar across end of cell and spot below end; the costa orange, with 6 or 7 black points from above end of cell to the wedge-shaped subterminal band which ends on vein 5 ; termen and cilia orange with purplish points. Hind Aving with some diffused orange on basal area, and two spots in cell conjoined to the whitish costal area; a medial yellow band narrowing to inner margin ; the termen and cilia orange. Hab. Katha, Burma. Exp. 28 m m . Type in Coll. Bothschild. (5)tTHLIPT0CERAS COiNOSTOLALIS, n. sp. cS . Head and tegulae ochreous : palpi black at sides, white below; 12* |