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Show 196 SIR G. F. HAMPSON-REVISION OF MOTHS [Feb. 21, antennae of male minutely ciliated and considerably longer than fore wing, of female about the leugth of fore wing; fore and mid tibiae of male fringed Avith hair on outer side, the thorax with tufts of hair below near mid legs ; abdomen of male with the anal tuft long. Fore Aving with the apex produced, the outer margin oblique; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight and Avell separated from 8, 9, to which 10 is approximated. Hind wing with the cell short, especially in male; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8 ; 6 in male curved downwards. Type. fTETRiDiA CALETORALIS Wlk. xviii. 651. N.E. India : Ceylon; Burma; Malayan subregion. Botys phcennisalis Wlk. xviii. 684. f „ vinacealis Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 619. Polythlipta albicaudalis Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 221, & 1883, pi. 8. f. 7. Genus 107. POLYGRAMMODES. Polygrammodes Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 318 (1854). Pachynoa Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 391. Aphytoceros Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 320. Pitacanda Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 334 (1887). Palpi porrect, dilated with scales above and enclosing a hollow in male, the 3rd joint hidden by hair; maxillary palpi minute and filiform; proboscis someAvhat aborted; frons rounded; build stout; fore tibiae and tarsi usually fringed with hair ; mid tibiae fringed with hair ; hind tibiae with a tuft of hair on outer side near base ; the spurs rather short. Fore wing produced at apex, the outer margin oblique, the inner margin lobed at middle ; vein 1 a forming a fork with lb ; 3 from angle of cell; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 7 curved and closely approximated to 8, 9, to Avhich 10 also is approximated. Hind Aving with vein 3 from angle of cell; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. Fig. 107. Polyyrammodes thoosalis, 3 • \- (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) SECT. I. Antennae of male bipectinate, with long branches. (l)*POLYGRAMMODES M03RULALIS Wlk. xix. 1000. Borneo. |