PTEALIDuE. 295 



ETIRRHYPARODES ABNEGATALIS (Plate 179, Fig. 7). 



Isopicryx tthugatalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 404 (1839). 



Botys ahnegatalis, Leclerer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 376, pi. 11, fig. 17 (186.3). 



Molybdantha bracteolalis, Meyrick, Tran.s. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1SS4, p. 309. 



/'Botys bracteolalis, Zeller, Lep. Miorop. CatFr. Kougl. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1852, p. 30. 



Male and female. Bright yellow : forewing crossed by subbasal, medial, and 

 outer purplish cinereous-brown bands, which are tinged with chalybeous, and slightly 

 speckled with minute yellow strigse : hindwing with a cinereous-brown basal spot, an 

 oval mark at end of the cell, and a broken di.'Scal and marginal yellow-speckled 

 band. Cilia yellow, with a very slight brown inner line. Thorax and abdomen 

 with broad brown bands ; palpi tipt with brown j fore and middle legs with brown 

 bands. 



Expanse rSr to tu inch. 



Genus NISTRA. 

 Ni'stra, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 488 (1859). 



Male. Forewing rather narrow, apex pointed, exterior margin slightly oblique 

 and convex ; cell about three-fifths the length, rather broad ; first subcostal emitted 

 at one-fourth before end of cell, third bifid, fifth from end ; discocellular concave, 

 radials from near middle and at lower end ; middle median close to end, lower at 

 one-fourth; submedian straight, with a short lower recurved branch rejoining at one- 

 third from the base : hindwing narrow, exterior margin very oblique, convex ; cell 

 two-fifths the length ; subcostals from the end ; discocellular concave, radial from 

 lower end ; two upper medians from end, lower at one-third ; a submedian and two 

 internal veins. Body slender, abdomen extending half beyond the hindwings ; labial 

 palpi ascending, flat, second joint short, broad, truncate, third joint short, triangular 

 in male, linear in female ; antennas slender, submoniliform ; legs slender, smooth, 

 spurs unequal. 



KISTRA CELATALIS (Plate 1S2, Fig. 10). 

 Nistra ccelatalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xvii. p. 488 (1859). 



Straw-yellow. Forewing crossed by a very slender interrupted antemedial 

 blackish- waved line, and an irregular postmedial line ; the costal border including an 

 orbicular and reniform spot, and the exterior border blotched with metallic purple- 

 brown : hindwing with a black spot at end of the cell, one above anal angle, and an 

 interrupted slender discal line ; exterior border with an apical and anal metallic 

 purplish-brown patch. Thoi-ax with a broad metallic brown band ; tip of abdomen 

 also brown ; palpi black above, base white ; legs white, fore tibite with a black 

 band. 



Expanse to to ts inch. 



