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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 



"THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES III, PART X. 



By 



Sir George Hampson, Bart., t\z.s., f.e.*. 



(Continued from page 53 of this Volume.) 



Pyralid^e. 



Gallerian^e. 



4144. d. Melissoblaptes vinotincta, n. sp. (Piute E., f. 38.). 

 9. Head and thorax pale greyish, slightly tinged with brown ; abdomen pale 

 greyish. Forewing pale ochreous grey, suffused and irrorated with vinous red ; 

 subcostal nervure streaked with fuscous grey ; a small greyish spot in middle of 

 cell and ill-defined fuscous discoidal spot ; a diffused curved subterminal band 

 from vein 7 to inner margin ; a terminal series of dark strife. Hindwing pale 

 fuscous grey. 



ft. Forewing long and narrow, less suffused with vinous red and hrorated 

 with a few black scales ; a diffused black streak in base of cell, an irregular 

 patch in middle of cell and a diffused streak in upper part of cell towards 

 extremity. Hindwing paler and more ochreous. 



Habitat.— Ceylon, Maskeliya (Pole). Exp. ft 42, $ 36 mill. Type in B. M 

 4149. a. Lamoria fuscaneurella, Rag. Nouv. Gen., p. 51 (1888). id. Rom. 

 Mem. viii., p. 437, pi. 45, f. 13. 

 Forewing of male with glandular swelling at base of costa. 

 Differs from L. planalis in the large discoidal annulus on forewing ; hind- 

 wing more acute at apex and tinged with fuscous instead of being yellowish. 



Habitat. — Ceylon, Nawalapitiya (Green), Maskeliya (Pole) ; Singapore ; 

 Sumatra. Exp. ft 34, £ 42-48 mill. 

 4150. Lamoria adaptella. 



This is distinct from the Palsearctic ; L. anella ; the male has the base of 

 costa of forewing dilated and hollowed out, but no glandular swelling. 



Forewing with the veins streaked with fuscous ; a black mark in cell between 

 the almost obsolete stigmata. 

 Habitat. — Ceylon. Exp. 24-26, mill. 



Crambin^e. 

 4158. Rename Crambus ph^eophleps, n. sp. C. delatalis, Wlk.. from 

 Australia being a distinct species. 



4161. a. Crambus brachyrhabda, Hmpsn.,P. L.S.1906,p. 494, pi. 36, f. 18 

 ft. Head, thorax and abdomen black-brown. Forewing fuscous brown with 

 a cupreous tinge ; a white fascia on median nervure emitting very short streaks 

 on veins 2*3*4 ; cilia brown at base, brownish grey at tips. Hindwing fuscous 

 brown ; cilia brown at base, brownish grey at tips. 

 Habitat, — Sikhim. Exp. 16 mill. 



