PYRALIDJE. 287 



of thorax, palpi above, and base of fore and middle tibia? purplisb-brown ; base of 

 palpi and legs whitish. 

 Expanse t*o inch. 



PLEONECTUSA ADHiESALIS (Plate 180, Fig. 14). 



Botys adha'diil/'s, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. GG4 (1859), ? . 

 Bolys Damasalis, Walker, id. ]>. 668, ^J. 



Pale purphsh cinereous-brown : forewing crossed by a slender indistinct brown 

 curved discal line, and a marginal line ; a slight punctiform spot in middle of the 

 cell and a lunule at tlie eud : hindwing with a slender indistinct brown discal line, a 

 marginal line, and a lunule at eud of the cell. Cilia whitish, with a brown inner 

 line. Palpi brown above, white beneath ; legs cinereous-brown. 



Expanse tV inch. 



Genus ^THOLIX. 



yEtholix, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Jlonat. vii. p. 437 (1863). 



uEdiodes (part),Gueuee, Delt. et Pyr. p. 191 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xvii. p. 347 (1859). 



ForeTviug moderately long, triangular ; costa arched towards the end, exterior 

 margin convex in the middle ; cell half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one- 

 fourth before end of the cell, second free, third, bifid, fifth from end and curved 

 upward ; discocellular slightly concave, radials from near the ends ; middle median 

 from angle at end of cell, lower at one-fourth : hindwing short ; exterior maroiu 

 very oblique, convex in the middle ; cell broad, one-third the length ; subcostals 

 from end ; discocellular outwardly obhque, radial from lower eud ; two upper 

 medians from end of cell, lower at one-fourth. Body moderately stout ; labial palpi 

 ascending, curved, reaching the vertex, laxly squamous, third joint small, conical ; 

 maxillary palpi short, slender ; antennee of male with very fine short cilia? j legs 

 rather long, smooth ; fore tibite short, dilated, squamous; spurs moderately stout, 

 unequal. 



Type, M. flaviljasalls. 



.ffiTHOLIX FLAVIBASALIS. 



^diodes flavihasalis, Gueiiee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 193 (1854) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. 



p. 347 (1859). 

 jEthoUx flavihasalis, Lederer, Pyral. Wien Ent. Mouat. vii. p. 437, pi. 17, fig. 6 (1863). 



Forewing with a pale yellow basal band, which is ochreous spotted and has a 

 black border; a broad purphsh cupreous-brown medial and outer band; between 

 the two latter bands is a black denticulated-bordered undulated semidiaphanous 

 white band, which is very narrow below the median vein : hindwing with a black- 

 bordered pale yellow orchreous-spotted basal band, a broad semidiaphanous white 

 medial baad, and a black wavy-bordered purplish cupreous-brown band. Head, 



