together with the Clearwing moths (Sesiidae) and the Sun moths (Castniidae), form the superfamily Sesioidea (Minet 1991). The present concept of Brachodidae with two subfamilies, Brachodinae and Phycodinae, was established by Heppner (1981), but the monophyly of the family and its placement in the Sesioidea is still disputed. A probable family autapomorphy is the strong reduction or loss of the ventral arms of the laterocervicalia (Minet 1991). Another character which may prove to be autapomorphic is a conspicuously bicoloured type of scales on forewings and thorax (dark, with a white or light grey distal spot). This scale type is prominent in all Phycodinae and in many Brachodinae taxa examined but has not been mentioned by previous authors. While the monophyly of the Sesiidae and Castniidae appears relatively well established, the inclusion of the Brachodidae into the Sesioidea has been less convincingly demonstrated (Kristensen 1999). A study on the skeleto-muscular morphology, however, supported the monophyly of a group composed of all three families (Kozlov et al. 1998). Superfamily autapomorphies are the enlarged patagia, extending ventrad beyond the anteroventral extremities of the pronotum, the anteriorly strongly pigmented ocular diaphragma, and the caudad or dorsocaudad elongated posterior tendons of the metafurcal apophyses (Minet 1991). Including the species described in this paper, approximately 135 Brachodid species have been named, distributed in all regions, except the Nearctic (Heppner 1981). Although the majority of species were described from the Palaearctic region, the Brachodidae fauna of southern and south-eastern Asia appears to be the most diverse, yet, despite two recent contributions (Kallies 1998, 2000), the knowledge on Oriental Brachodid moths is still rudimentary. The present paper completes an initial survey of the Oriental Brachodidae which was based on the type material and additional specimens selected from unsorted or unidentified material from European, Australian and Japanese institutional collections of Lepidoptera (Kallies 1998, 2000). This study aims to describe the rarely collected south and south-east