Mecistoptera

Description

Palpi long, obliquely porrect, where the second joint thickly clothed with scales. Third joint long and slender. Frontal tuft short. Antennae with long cilia in male, which is short in female. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia nearly naked. Fore wings long and narrow with produced and acute apex. Outer margin obliue and excurved at middle. Veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form an areole. Hind wings with veins 3,4 from cell and vein 5 from below the middle of discocellulars. The outer margin truncate from vein 4 to anal angle.

Species