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Show 1895.] OF T H E S C H C 2 N O B I I N J E A N D CRAMBINCE. 901 . Fore wing with veins 6, 7 from cell. a3. Palpi with the 3rd joint short and blunt 11. Obtusipalpis. b3. Palpi with the 3rd joint long and down-curved. a*. Frons flat and oblique; fore wing with the apex rounded 24. Cirrhochrista. b*. Frons with a rounded projection ; palpi once to twice the length of head 21. Scirpophaga. c4. Frons with a slight tuft; palpi three to four times length of head 22. Schcenobius. c3. Palpi dilated towards extremity; tibise with the spurs minute ; fore wing with vein 1 b not reaching outer angle 25. Acentropus. Genus NIPHOPYRALIS. Niphopyralisr Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 181 (1893). Palpi upturned, smoothly scaled and hardly reaching vertex of head ; maxillary palpi minute; frons rounded; antennae of male bipectinated ; tibiae with the spurs nearly equal. Fore wing short and rounded; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 7 well separated from 8, 9 ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 6, 7 from upper angle. Fig. 1. Niphopyralis nivalis, <J. (l)fNiPHOPYRALis NIVALIS, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 181, pi. 174. f. 6. . Ceylon. (2)fNiPHOPYRALis CONTAMINATA, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 181, pi. 174. f. 14. . Gey-Ion. (3)tNiPHOPYRALis ALBIDA, Hmpsn. 111. Het. ix. p. 181, pi. 174. f m 25. Bhutan ; Bombay; Ceylon; Borneo. Niphopyralis suffidalis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi. p. 299. Genus GONOTHYRIS, nov. Palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd and 3rd joints fringed with hair in front; maxillary palpi well developed and nearly filiform ; frons oblique and thickly clothed with hair; antennae of male somewhat annulated and strongly ciliated; spurs well developed and equal. Fore wing with the costa strongly arched at base ; the outer margin produced to a point at vein 7, then excised to vein 3 where it is strongly angled ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 7 well separated from 8, 9,10, which are stalked. Hind wing with the outer margin angled at vein 3; 6, 7 from upper angle. |