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Show 200 SIR G. F. HAMPSON-REVISION OF MOTHS [Feb. 21, ciliated; tibiae with the outer spurs about two-thirds length of inner. Fore wing Avith the apex produced, the outer margin oblique; vein 3 from near angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9 ; male with a fovea below the cell at origin of vein 2. Hind Aving with the costa lobed and fringed Avith hair near base; the cell extremely short and the discocellulars produced for a long way along median nervure so that veins 3, 4, 5 appear to be stalked; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing strongly with 8. Type. PARBATTIA VIALIS Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 225, pi. 7. f. 30. N.E. India. Genus 109. DISCOTHYRIS. Discothyris Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi. p. 473 (1895). Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; antennae of male ciliated ; tibiae Avith the outer spurs about half the length of inner. Fore wing with the costa arched towards apex, which is acute ; the outer margin angled at vein 4; vein 3 from close to angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 curved and approximated for a short distance to 8, 9, to which 10 also is approximated. Hind wing Avith the outer margin produced to a point at vein 6 and excurved at middle; vein 3 from angle of cell; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing Avith 8; a large tuft of hair on median nervure at lower angle of cell. Fig. 109. Discothyris ferruyinata, 3 • r- (From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) Type. (l)f DISCOTHYRIS FERRUGINATA Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 209. Sikhim. (2)*DISCOTHYRIS VESTIGTALIS Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 628. Sikhim. (3) DISCOTHYRIS MEGALOPHALIS, n. sp. 3. Dull ferruginous brown ; palpi white below at base. Fore wing with discocellular black lunule; a postmedial series of black specks, most prominent towards costa and forming a larger spot on costa, excurved from below costa to veiu 4, then inwardly oblique. Hind Aving with the tuft very large, extending along vein 2 and blackish, a postmedial sinuous black line somewhat maculate between veins 5 and 2; both wings with black line at base of cilia. Hab. Khasis. Exp. 18 mm. Type in Coll. Bothschild. |