2G4 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



PYRALIS TORRIDALIS. 



Asojna torriilalis, Leclerer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Mouat. vii. pp. 342, 457, pi. 6, fig. 15 (1863). 



Male. Dull reddish. Forewing crossed by a black outwardly-curved antemedial 

 Hue, an inwardly-oblique pale-bordered denticulated postmedial line, and a marginal 

 row of dentate spots ; a blackish spot at end of the cell, and some pale-bordered 

 points on the costa : hindwing with a slender indistinct black inner line, a more 

 distinct discal waved line, and marginal dentate spots ; antenna finely pectinated. 



Expanse \l inch. 



PYRALIS IMBECILIS. 



Female. Pale cinereous-ochreous : forewing brownish-ochreous along the costal 

 edge ; crossed by a very indistinct pale ochreous curved antemedial line, and a 

 sti'aight almost erect postmedial line : hindwing with a pale ochreous wavy discal 

 line. Palpi and forelegs brownish-ochreous. 



Expanse 1% inch. 



Allied to the European P. glaucinalis, Linn. 



Genus BOSTRA. 

 Bostra, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 123 (1863). 



" Female. Wings short, rather broad : forewing acute, costa straight, exterior 

 margin convex, very oblique hindward. Body thick ; palpi porrect, lanceolate, third 

 joint conical, minute ; antennaj slender; abdomen lanceolate; legs rather long and 

 slender, smooth, spurs moderately long." 



BOSTRA ILLUSELLA. 



Bosti'a illusella, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 123 (1863). 



" Female. Brownish-cinereous : forewing with a pale fawn-coloured band, 

 bounded by an oblique whitish line, followed by a whitish submarginal undulating 

 line. Head, palpi, and legs pale fawn colour. 



" Expanse tii inch." 



Genus ENDOTPaCHA. 



Endotricha, Zeller, Isis, 1847, p. 592 ; H. Schasffer, Eur. SchmetD. iv. p. 12 ; Guenee, Delt. et Pyr. 

 p. 218 (1854) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 388; Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Eut. Mon. 

 vii. p. 344. 



Forewing rather long, costa somewhat arched towards the end, apex subfalcate, 

 exterior margin slightly convex ; cell three-fifths the length ; first subcostal emitted 

 at one-sixth before end of the cell, third from end, trifid ; discocellular concave, 

 upper radial from end in a line with subcostal, lower radial and upper median on a 

 footstalk beyond end of the cell, middle median from end of cell, lower at one-fourth ; 



