PYRALIDyE. 311 



POLYTHLIPTA DIVARICATA (Plate 179, Fu;. 16?, 16a larva). 



Olivaceous yellowish-wliite. Wings semi-diaplianous, opalescent : forewing 

 witli the costal border ocbi^eous-yellow ; an ochrcous-j^ellow blackish-speckled basal 

 patch, an irregular striped antemedial band, which extends outwardly along the 

 median, up end of the cell, and along the upper median to the middle of a transverse 

 discal angular band ; the latter band partly confluent with a densely black-speckled 

 apical band, from which a submarginal line extends to the posterior angle : hiudwing 

 with a shght black broken streak at end of the cell, a slender interrupted irregular 

 discal line, an apical patch, and a smaller patch on middle of the exterior margin. 

 Thorax and base of abdomen white, speckled with brown ; abdomen above, head, 

 palpi, and legs white, fore and middle tibias with brownish-ochreous band. 



Expanse, $ 1|, ? If inch. 



Larva slender ; olive-green ; anterior segments ochreous ; with a lateral medial 

 darker green band. Pupa green ; with a short anal point and pedal sheath. 



" Feeds on Phaseolus " (Thwaitcs). 



Genus HARITALA. 



Notarcha* Meyrick, Trans. Eut. Soc. Lond. 188-t, p. 310. 



Male. Fore wing shorter and broader than in Pijcnarinon; cell extending to half 



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



third biiid, fifth from end ; discocellular concave, i-adials from near middle and lower 



end ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian straight, 



with a short curved slender lower vein from its base : hindwing less triangular than 



in Pi/cnarmoii, apex and exterior margin convex ; cell less than one-third the lengtli ; 



two subcostals from a short distance beyond the cell, upper partly joined to costal ; 



discocellular very concave, radial from close to lower end ; two upper medians from 



end of cell, lower at one-third; submedian and two internal veins straight. Thorax 



rather stout ; abdomen slender and elongated in male, anal tuft slender ; labial palpi 



obliquely ascending, rather broad laterall}^ laxly squamous, tip minute, pointed ; 



maxillary palpi short, slender ; autenuEB with fine short cilias ; fore and middle tibial 



squamous ; spurs slender, inner spurs long. 



I'ime. H. Cassusalis. 



HARITALA CASSUSALIS. 



Zehronia Cassusalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 477 (18.59). 

 Zehronia aurolinealis. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 478 (1859) — '^onhj. 

 Zehronia amcenalis, Walker, !</. xxxiv. p. 1352(1865). 

 Botys signatalis, Walker, id. xxxiv. p. 144-1 (1865). 



Botsfaustalis, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Mouat. vii. pp. 375, 471, pi. 10, fig. 15 (1863). 

 Notardia cassalis, Meyrick, Trans. Eut. Sue. Loud. 1884, p. 311. 

 Glossy white : forewing crossed by 6ve inwardly-oblique dark ochreous- yellow 



* Xotarchus previously used for a genus of iloUusca. 



