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Show 1895.] OF THE SCHCENOBIINCE AND CRAMBINCE. 965 Genus SURATTHA. Surattha, Wlk. xxvii. 75 (1863). Calarina, Wlk. xxxv. 1770 (1866). Palpi porrect and thickly scaled, extending about one and a half times length of head; maxillary palpi triangularly scaled ; frons with a conical process ; antennae of male bipectinated, usually with long branches ; tibiae with tbe spurs long, the outer spurs about two thirds length of inner. Fore wing long and narrow; the apex rounded ; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 usually on a long stalk; 6, 7 and 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell; 5 absent; 6 obsolescent from above middle of discocellulars ; 7 anastomosing with 8. Fig. 47. Surattha invectalis, cf • !• SECT. I. Fore wing with veins 4,5 stalked. Type. (l)tSuRATTHA INVECTALIS, Wlk. xxvii. 76. India; Ceylon : fPindicitora thysbesalis, Wlk. xxvii. 135. Burma ; Java. fScopula nigrifascialis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1472. t Calarina albirenella, Wlk. xxxv. 1770. (2)fSURATTHA NEOTROPICALIS, n. sp. 2 . Ochreous brown irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen with the base tinged with fulvous. Fore wing thickly irrorated ; a fuscous spot at base of median nervure; a medial dark line, slightly sinuous, acutely angled on vein 2, with pale inner edge, and a large fuscous triangular patch beyond it with its base on costa and apex at the angle of the line; a dark discocellular lunule; a minutely dentate submarginal white line, with fuscous on its inner edge and indistinct lunulate brown line beyond it; a marginal series of black specks. Hind wing white ; the outer area tinged with fuscous from apex to vein 2. Hab. Goya, Argentina. Exp. 30 mm. C3)tSuRATTHA ALBIPENNIS, Butl. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 383. Punjab; V ' Sind ; E. Africa. (4)tSuRATTHA SCITULELLA, Wlk. xxxv. 1755. S. India; Ceylon. SECT. LI. Fore wing with veins 4, 5 from cell. A. Antennae of male with long branches. (5)*SURATTHA TERMIA, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 452. ^ Australia, |