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Habitat. — Khasis, E.cp. 28 mm. 



4156a. Crambus coeticbllus^ n. sp. 



$. Head aud thorax dark aud golden-brown; abdomen fuscous. 

 Forewing coppery golden-brown, the veins and interno-median fold 

 irrorated with white scales ; the costal area suffused with blackish ; a 

 black point in end of cell ; a marginal series of black points surrounded 

 by white scales ; cilia paler. Hindwing fuscous- grey. 9 . With the 

 ground-colour miiform dull brown ; hindwing grey-brown. 



Habitat. — Khasis ; Calcutta. E.vp. $ 24, 9 4U mm. Type — $ in 

 British Museum ; 9 iu coH- Rothschild. 



4159. Crambus parvellus=4178, C. ochridrigellus. 



4202a. Chilo steniellus, n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax pule grey-brown ; abdomen whitish, dorsally 

 ochreous towards base. Forewing long and narrow ; pale grey-brown 

 irrorated with fuscous and suffused with fuscous in the interspaces, 

 especially the cell and discal fold, leaving the veins slightly paler; 

 traces of two very oblique lines from below apex to middle of inner 

 margin ; a marginal series of black points, Hindwing pure white. 



Habitat. — Tezpore, Assam, ^.rp. 30 mm. Type — In coll. Rothschild, 

 Genus Diatr^a. 



JDiatrcea^ Lands. Guild. Trans. ISoc. Encom. Arts, xlvi, 143 (1832). 



Type. — -I), saccharalis^ Fabr. 



Range. — Nearctic and Neotropical regions ; Mauritius ; Ceylon ; 

 Borneo ; Java. 



Palpi extending about three times the length of head and thickly clothed 

 with hair; maxillary palpi triangularly dilated with hair; proboscis 

 absent ; frons with a tuft of hair ; antennse of male minutely serrate 

 and fasciculate ; tibise somewhat hairy, the spurs well developed. Fore- 

 wing with. the apex somewhat acute ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 

 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from near upper angle j 8, 9 stalked ; 10 free ; 

 H anastomosing with 12. Hindwing with vein 3 from before angle of 

 cell ; 4, 5- from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



4202a. DiATR^A saccbaralis, Fabr., Eat. Syst., iii, 2, 238. 



Chilp oUiteratellus, Zell., Mon. Chil. and Cramb., p. 8. 



Crambus leucaniellus, Wlk., Cat., xxvii, p. 161. 

 •„: lineoselluS) Wlk., Cat., sxvii, p. 162. 



