PYBALID^. 297 



'Bo(\j with white bands ; palpi white at the base ; legs brownish ; forelegs witb pale 

 bands. 



Expanse -j^y inch. 



DIASEMIA IMPULSALIS. 

 Isopteryx impulsalis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 404 (1859). 



Pale ochreous-brown : forewing crossed bj an inwardly-oblique short anteraedial, 

 a broad medial, and a narrow postmedial white band ; the two middle areas below 

 the cell, and the exterior border of the outer band being densely black speckled ; a 

 marginal row of black dentate spots ; a lunular white spot at end of the cell : hind- 

 wing with the basal area white ; crossed by a medial and discal irregular black- 

 speckled band ; marginal dentated line black. Cilia white. Legs pale brownish- 

 ochreous. 



Expanse to inch. 



Genus SPANISTA. 

 Spantsta, Ledeier, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 445 (1863).' 



Male. Forewing long, narrow ; costa arcbed towards the end, apex acute, sub- 

 falcate, exterior margin slightly oblique and convex hindward ; cell half the length ; 

 first subcostal emitted immediately before end of the cell, second free, third bifid, 

 fifth from end ; discocellular almost erect, radials from close to each end ; middle 

 median close to end of the ceU, lower about one-third ; submedian almost straight : 

 hind wing rather long, narrow, exterior mai'gin very oblique, wavy; cell short, about 

 one-fourth the length ; subcostals from the end ; both branches extending one-third 

 their length along the costal; discocellular extremely oblique and concave, radial 

 from lower end ; two upper medians from extended end of the cell, lower at one- 

 third. Body slender, abdomen long, extending two-thirds beyond hindwing, with a 

 lateral apical tuft; palpi short, ascending, laxly squamous in front, apical joint 

 short, pointed ; antennee submoniliform, the joints broad at their end ; legs long, 

 slender, spurs long and slender. 



SPANISTA ORNATALIS (Plate 181, Fig. 10, ^). 



Asojiia ornatalis, Diiponcbel, Lep. Fr. viii. p. 207, pi. 223, fig. 8 (1831), 



Nympluila ornatalis, H. Scbajffer, Eur. Schmett. iv. 10, 6, pi. 8, fig. 52-3. 



Stenia ornatalis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 247. 



Spanista ornatalis, Ledeier, Pyral. Wien. Eiit, Mod. vii. p. 446 ; Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 1872, 



p. 96. 

 Botys saturalis, Treitschke, Eur. Schuiett. Suppl. 2, p. 29. 

 Catachjsta Ehitalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 448 (1859). 

 Pyralis cleciusalis. Walker, id. xix. p. 905 (1859). 



Ferruginous-brown. Both wings with a medial transverse purplish-white band 

 which is more or less brown speckled, the speckles thickest on the costa of forewing ; 

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