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Show 1895.] OF THE SCHCENOBIINCE AND CRAMBINCE. 945 SECT. II. (Platytes). Palpi extending more than twice the length of head. A. Fore wing with the apex slightly produced. a. Fore wing with the outer margin not indented. (13)tPLATYTES CROCEICINCTELLA, Wlk. xxvii. 182. Venezuela. (14) PLATYTES AURATELLA, Clem. Proc. A. N. S. Phil. 1860, p. 204. fUrola pulchella, Wlk. xxvii. 183. U.S.A. (15)fPLATYTES INTERRUPTELLA, Wlk. xxxv. 1763. Japan ; China ; Penang. fArgyria inficitella, Wlk. xxxv. 1764. „ obliquella, Zell. Hor. Ent. Ross. xiii. p. 68, pi. i. f. t „ Candida, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 590. (16)fPLATYTES MARGINEPUNCTALIS, n. sp. Pure white; palpi rufous at sides ; collar with two rufous lines. Fore wing with slight rufous streaks from base along costa, median nervure, and vein 1 ; a medial rufous line very highly angled below costa, and with a black discocellular spot on it; a double sub-marginal rufous line highly angled on vein 6, its outer portion indistinct and minutely crenulate near the angle ; a marginal series of black specks; the cilia silvery at base, the tips fuscous. Hind wing pure white. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous. Hab. Dharmsala, Punjab (Hocking). Exp. 18 mm. (l7)tPLATYTES PARALELLUS, Zell. Stett. e. Z. 1867, p. 389, pi. f. 1. Sikhim ; Khasis. (18)f PLATYTES NIVEIFASCIALIS, n. sp. S. Head white; palpi brown at sides; thorax white and brown; abdomen ochreous white. Pore wing pale ochreous browrn, with silvery-white fascia from base through the cell, terminating in a point beyond the cell and edged by brown lines ; some dark brown scales on inner area; a brown line from costa beyond middle, double to vein 6, where it is highly angled near the margin, then inwardly oblique, sinuous and obsolescent; a fuscous triangular shade on outer area meeting the apex of the silvery fascia; a fine dark crenulate marginal line. Hind wing ochreous white, slightly tinged with fuscous on marginal area. Hab. Nilgiris, S. India (Hampson). Exp. 22 mm. (19)tPLATYTES INTERSTRIATELLUS, n. Sp. cf. White ; palpi rufous at sides; the thorax marked with rufous ; abdomen brownish. Fore wing with the interspaces suffused with rufous ; the veins white ; a blackish patch below base of cell and a streak on base of inner margin ; an ill-defined very oblique white band from lower angle of cell to inner margin, with blackish |