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a similar line from costa beyond middle to near termen at vein 2, then curved 

 round to tornns ; an obscure terminal series of fuscous and ochreous spots ; 

 the underside ochreous with dentate postmedial line excurved at middle. 

 Habitat.— Chamba. Exp. 26 mill. Type— In B. M. 

 5258a. Pyrausta xanthothysa^a, n. sp. (PI. C. f. 4.) 

 £ . Forewing with large fovea below base of cell. 



Reddish-brown with a cupreous tinge ; palpi below, front of pectus and 

 mid tibiae and tarsi white ; fore tibiae with white bands. Forewing with 

 oblique sinuous dark antemedial line ; a speck in cell and discoidal lunule ; a 

 highly dentate postmedial line slightly bent outwards between veins 7 and 2, 

 then retracted ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia yellow. Hindwing 

 with minutely dentate postmedial line ; a terminal series of points becoming a 

 line towards tornus ; cilia yellow. 

 Habitat. — Sikhim. Exp. 36 mill. 



Genus — Cornifrons. 

 Cornifrons Led. Wien. Ent. Mon., 1863, p. 384. 

 Type C. ulcer italis. 



Range. — N. America ; Algeria, Syria, Persia ; N.-W. India. 

 Palpi porrect the 2nd joint moderately scaled, the 3rd prominent ; 



maxillary palpi long and slightly di- 

 lated at extremity ; frons with long 

 corneous process with oblique vertical 

 edge ; antenna; ciliated ; tibia? with 

 the outer spurs two-thirds length of 

 inner. Forewing with vein 3 from 

 Cornifrons ulceratalis $ \ before angle of cell ; 4,5 from angle ; 



7 straight and well separated from 8,9. Hindwing with vein 3 from near 

 angle of cell ; 4,5 from angle ; 6,7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 

 5270a. Cornifrons ulceratalis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon., 1858, p. 147, 



pi. 4, f. 1. 



Scoparia seriziatalis Oberth. Et. Ent. 1, p. 69, pi. iv, f. 10. 



Pale brownish ochreous. Forewing slightly irorated with black scales or 

 largely clouded with black on antemedial, medial and postmedial areas ; a 

 black antimedial spot below the cell ; an oblique irregularly waved medial 

 black line angled outwards in cell and with a spot beyond it on inner margin ; 

 a large cloudy bla^edged reniform spot ; the postmedial black line minutely 

 dentate, angled outwards at veins 6 and 2, at vein 2 retracted to below end 

 of cell, and with a diffused black and grey band beyond it ; a terminal series 

 of black points ; cilia fuscous at base. Hindwing ochreous white ; a minutely 

 dentate fuscous postmedial line between veins 6 and 2 ; a diffused, brownish 

 terminal band ; some black points on termen between veins 2 and 4. 



Habitat.- Algiers ; Syria ; Persia ; Ferozpur ; Deesa ; Oudh. Exp. 26 mill. 



5275a. Noctuelia dichroalis, n. sp. (PI. 0. f. 6.) 



$. Bright yellow : palpi slightly marked with black towards extremity ; 

 frontal prominence black at sides ; patagia and thorax suffused with fuscou* 



