PYRALIDJE. 2G5 



submediau widely separated from median : hindwing short, exterior margin convex in 

 the middle ; cell two-fifths the length ; two subcostals from end of cell, upper extending 

 partly along the costal ; discocellular very obliquely concave, radial and upper median 

 fi'om its extended lower end, lower median at two-fifths. Body slender ; tegul^ 

 divergent, hairs long ; front of head smooth, flat ; jialpi slightly ascending, slender, 

 short, third joint obtuse ; antennae submoniliform ; legs long, bare, sjjurs slender. 

 Type, E. flammealis. 



ENDOTRICHA DECESSALIS. 



Endotricha decessalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 390 (1859). 

 Pyralis decessalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1234 (1865). 



Eed. Forewing ferruginous-red towards the base ; crossed by a wavy antemedial 



indistinct brown line, and a submarginal slightly- curved line ; a slight blackish 



lunular spot at end of the cell, and alternate yellowish and black points along the 



costa : hindwing crossed by an indistinct antemedial and postmedial waved pale line. 



Cilia white. Legs with blackish bands. 



Expanse i% inch. 



Genus DOTHTHA. 



Dotlitha, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 285 (1859). 



Male. Forewing elongate, triangular, costa somewhat raised and angulated at 

 one-third before its end, apex acute, exterior margin slightly oblique ; cell narrow, 

 more than half the length ; first subcostal at one-fourth, second free, third trifid ; 

 discocellular concave, radial from upper end in a line with the subcostal ; two upper 

 medians (or lower radial and upper median) on a footstalk half beyond the cell, 

 middle median from end of the cell, lower from close to the end, and its entire 

 length covered on the underside with a lappet of scales ; submedian nearly straight ; 

 hindwing narrow, apex and extei'ior margin very convex ; cell two-fifths the length ; 

 two subcostals from end of cell, upper joining the costal for half its length; disco- 

 cellular outwardly oblique, concave ; the radial and upper median on a footstalk 

 half beyond the cell, middle median from end of the cell, lower at one-third. 

 Body slender; head depressed between the antennas; abdomen tufted at apex; 

 labial palpi short, vertical, applied close to the head, laxly squamous in front ; 

 maxillary palpi not visible ; antennas minutely serrated and pectinated, basal joint 

 with an appendage at its tip; tegulas of thorax long, lax, spatular; legs slender, 

 rather long, spurs long. 



Type, D. mesenterialis. 



DOTHTHA MESENTERIALIS (Plate 178, Fig. 8). 

 Doththa mesenteriahs, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 285 (1859), S ; id. xix. p. 920. 



Purplish-red, numerously speckled with black scales, which mostly form short 



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