PYRALID.^. 281 



Genus CNAPHALOCROCIS. 



CHap/iaZocrocjs, Ledercr, Pyral. Wien. Eut. Mouat. vii. p. 381< (1863); Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soe. 

 Lond. 1884, p. 303. 



Wings small. Male : foi^ewiug elongate, triangular ; with a small glandular 

 pouch on the costa above before the middle, which is covered by a double coalescing tuft 

 of hairs, and with a contiguous lower tuft of hairs projecting forward along middle 

 of the submedian ; cell half the length ; first subcostal curved below the pouch, fifth 

 from end of the cell ; discocellular slightly concave, radials from upper end and 

 close to lower end ; middle median close to end of cell, lower at oue-fifth ; sub- 

 median straight : hindwing short, triangular ; apex pointed ; cell one-third the 

 length ; subcostals from end, i;pper coalesced to the costal to near its extreme end ; 

 discocellular outwardly oblique, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from end 

 of cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian and internal veins straight. Body slender, 

 anal tuft pointed ; forehead ridged at the sides ; labial palpi moderately long, por- 

 rect, extending half beyond the head, obtusely pointed in front, truncate at the tip 

 above, laxly squamous ; maxillary palpi dilated with lax scales at the tip, truncate ; 

 antennae submondiform ; legs moderately long ; fore tibise short and dilated with 

 hairs ; inner spurs long, outer short. 

 Type, C. medinalis. 



CNAPHALOCROCIS MEDINALIS. 



Salbia medinalis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 201 (1854), § . 



Botrjs rutilalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 665 (1859). 



Botys lolealis, Walker, id. p. 666 (1859). 



Cnaphalocrocis lolinalis, Lederer, Pyral, Wien. Eut. Monat. vii. p. 385, pi. 12, fig. 7, ,J(1863); 



Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1883, p. 135. 

 Botys acerrimalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. p. 1449 (1865). 



Ochreous-yellow, glossy : forewing with the costal edge and a marginal band 

 purplish cinereous-brown; crossed by an outwardly-oblique slender brown ante- 

 medial line, and an inwardly-oblique discal line ; a slender brown lunule at end of 

 cell ; a blackish marginal line : hindwing with a slender brown spot at end of the 

 cell, a discal line, a cinereous-brown marginal band, and a blackish marginal line. 

 Cilia edged with white, with a brown inner line. Front of thorax, head, palpi 

 above, and fore tibise brown ; legs white. Male with a glandular tuft of cinereous- 

 black hairs on middle of the costa above, and with a contiguous lower tuft of 

 ochreous hairs ; anal tuft black, and with two white longitudinal streaks. 



Expanse ^ ? i^ inch. 



This is quite a distinct species from the Australian C. nursciahs {Botys Nur- 



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