262 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



bordered brown line ; both lines with a slightly dilated pale yellow costal end, and 



between the lines are some small yellowish costal points ; an indistinct blackish spot 



at end of the cell : hindwing more uniformly red, and crossed by two very indistinct 



wavy brown lines. Cilia golden-yellow, with a reddish inner line. Front of head, 



palpi, and forelegs reddish ; middle and hindlegs ochreous. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Genus PYRALIS. 



Pyralis, Linnasus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 533 (1758) ; Poda, Ins. Mus. Grfficensis, p. 94 (1761) ; Linn. Syst. 



Nat. i. p. 881 (1767); Stephens, Catal. Brit. Ins. ii. p. 160 ; III. Haust. iv. p. 24 (1834) ; Catal. 



Brit. Lep. B. M. p. 235 (1850) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 260 ; Guenee, Delt. et 



Pyr. p. 116. 

 Hypsopygia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 348 (1825-7). 

 Asopia, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vi. pt. 2, p. 316 (1828); vii. p. 146(1829); Curtis, Guide, p. 177 ; 



Lederer, Pyr. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 342. 



Forewing rather long and narrow, apes not acute, exterior margin oblique, cilia 

 broad ; cell extending more than half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fourth 

 before end of the cell, second aboutone-eighth, free, third from end, trifid; discocellular 

 slender, concave, radial from upper end in a line with the subcostal ; lower radial 

 and upper median on a footstalk one-fifth beyond the cell, middle median from close 

 to the end, lower at one-fifth before the end ; submedian almost straight : hindwing 

 rather long and broad, apex convex, exterior margin very oblique ; two subcostals 

 from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, outwardly oblique, lower end extended ; 

 radial and upper median from extended lower end of the cell, middle median from 

 close to the end, lower at one-third ; submedian and two internal veins slightly 

 curved. Body moderately stout ; labial palpi pubescent, obliquely ascending, not 

 rising above the vertex, second joint slightly curved, third joint short, conical at tip ; 

 maxillary palpi very short, slender ; antennae stout, pubescent in the male, bare in 

 the female ; legs stout, squamous, tibia3 slightly pilose, spurs long, slender. 

 Type, P. farinalis. 



PYRALIS BRACTIATELLA (Plate 178, Fig. 5, ? ), 

 Mydois bractiatdla, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 36 (1863). 



Purplish-cinereous. Forewing purplish towards the apex ; crossed by an ante- 

 medial and a postmedial erect wavy white line, the latter externally bordered by a 

 red fascia ; between the antemedial line and the extreme base the area is black ; 

 at end of the cell is a black dot, and on the costa between the lines are some 

 alternate brown and white spots : hindwing duller coloured ; crossed by two 

 similar waved lines, the basal area also being black, the discal area reddish, and 

 the outer border margined with blackish speckled spots. Legs with brownish bands. 



Expanse ttt inch. 



