PYRALID.'E. 279 



slender, very minutely ciliated; legs long, rather stout, fore and middle tibiae 

 clothed with short hairy scales, spurs long, unequal. 



GADESSA ALBIFRONS (Plate 180, Fig. 6). 



Pale cinereous-ochreous. Wings opalescent : forewing crossed by a blackish 

 curved outwardly-oblique antemedial line, an irregular postmedial denticulated line, 

 which is indistinctly bent inward to below the cell, a prominent marginal line ; a 

 punctiform spot in middle of the cell, and a broad lunule at the end ; hindwing with 

 a blackish lunule at end of the cell, an irregular discal denticulated line, and a pro- 

 minent marginal line. Cilia with a lilackish inner line. Front of head and base of 

 abdomen whitish ; abdomen with slight ochreous band and a black band on penul- 

 timate segment ; legs whitish ; a black band on fore tibite. 



Expanse (? 2 1 to lyu- inch. 



Genus PACHYZANCLA. 

 Pachyzanda, Meyiick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 315. 



Male. Forewing narrow, elongate, exterior margin slightly oblique ; cell fully half 

 the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fifth before end of the cell, second and third 

 from angle close to end, third bifid, fifth curved upward from the end ; discocellular 

 outwardly oblique, slightly concave in middle, radials from angle near the ends ; two 

 upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-fourth : hindwing rather narrow, tri- 

 angular, exterior margin slightly convex ; cell one-third the length ; subcostals from 

 end ; discocellular slightly concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from 

 end of cell, lower at one-third. Body slender ; tegulge with very long lax hairy 

 scales ; labial palpi obliquely ascending, laterally broad, second joint truncate, third 

 joint small, conical, scarcely visible ; maxillary palpi rather short ; antennse seta- 

 ceous ; legs rather short, smooth, spurs long, slender, unequal in length. 



TuiiCf P. mutualis. 



PACHYZANCLA MUTUALIS (Plate 178, Fig. 15, S)- 

 Botys mutualis, Zeller, Lep. ilicrop. CaflV. Kougl. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1852, p. 40. 

 Pachyzanda mutualis, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1883, p. 129; Meyrick, Trans. Eat. Soc. Loud. 1884, 



p. 315. 

 Botys stultalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 669 (1859). 

 Botys retradalis, Walker, id. xxxiv. p. 1447 (1865). 

 Botys wgrotalis, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1872, p. 90, pi. 7, fig. 8; Midd. Siimat. iv. 1, p. 63, nea 



Zeller. 



Cinereous-ochreous, with a purplish tinge. Both wings crossed by a slender 

 pale blackish irregular undulated denticulated discal line, which is curved inward 

 below the cell, but does not extend to a blackish lunate spot at end of the cell ; a 



