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PTRALIS GERONTESALIS (Plate 178, Fig. 6, ?). 



Pyralis Gerontesalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 896 (1859). 

 Sacatia lantatclla, Walker, Catal. Lop. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 124 (1863), S . 

 Pyralis despectalis, Walker, id. xxxiv. p. 1243 (1865). 

 Pyralis miseralis, Walker, id. xxxiv. p. 1244 (1865). 



Pale vinous brownish -cinereous ; black speckled. Both wings crossed by an 

 antemedial and a postmedial augulated black-speckled duplex band, and a marginal 

 row of black spots. Forewing with a black-speckled spot at end of the cell. Cilia 

 very broad, with a blackish inner line. Body and palpi black speckled ; legs brownish- 

 cinereous, forelegs with blackish bands. 



Expanse, $ A, 2 1 inch. 



PYRALIS JANIUSALIS. 



Pyralis Janiusalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 904 (1859). 



" Forewings very acute. Cinereous-brown, more cinereous beneath. Wings 

 with dark brown, indistinct, slightly undulating lines ; marginal line pale testaceous ; 

 fringe interlined. 



" Expanse 10 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in the collection of Mr. E. L. Layard. 



PYRALIS PALESALIS. 



Pyralis Palcsalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 269 (1859). 

 " Male. Reddish-cinereous. Forewings coarsely squamous, slightly speckled 

 with black; two irregular obhque whitish-yellow bands slightly and diffusedly 

 bordered with blackish ; first band dilated along the costa ; second abbreviated in 

 front, accompanied hind ward by a zigzag line of the same colour ; marginal lunules 

 blackish ; a blackish point in the first baud, and a blackish dot between the latter and 

 base of the wing : hindwings more cinereous, with two paler lines. 



" Expanse 12 lines." 



PYRALIS RAVOLALIS. 



Pyralis Eavolalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 898 (1859). 



Female. Purphsh-cinereous. Forewing purphsh towards the apex; crossed 

 by an outwardly-oblique wavy pale-bordered brown antemedial and a postmedial hne, 

 the latter line ending at the posterior angle ; the basal area darker cinereous, and 

 marked by a costal black spot, a black spot also at end of the cell : hindwing duller 

 coloured ; crossed by two similar very undulated pale lines, which are bordered with 

 blackish-ferruginous speckles, which are clustered at the ends. Cilia purplish-red, 

 with a pale inner line and row of blackish spots. Body speckled with ferruginous- 

 black. 



Expanse -rtj inch. 



