PYRALID^. 353 



oblique, concave, radials from the ends ; middle median from angle close to end of 

 cell, lower at one-fourth ; submedian recurved : hindwing triangular ; cell more 

 than one-third the length, broad ; subcostals from end, upper partly joined to the 

 costal ; discocellular slightly angular in the middle, radial from lower end ; middle 

 median from angle close to end of cell, ?ower at one-fourth ; a submedian and two 

 internal veins. Body rather stout ; anal tuft short and thick ; labial palpi large, 

 porrect, projecting more than half beyond the head, compressed, laxly squamous, 

 broad, pointed in front, third joint concealed ; maxillary palpi distinct, obliquely 

 ascending, short, laxly squamous ; antennae I'ather thick, setaceous, with a conical 

 appendage projecting at the base of the shaft; legs smooth, inner spurs very long, 

 slender, outer spurs short. 



DYSALLACTA NEGATALIS. 



Phalangiodes Negatalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 468 (1859). 



Bysallacta Negatalis, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Monat. vii. p. 393, pi. 13, fig. 6 (1863), $. 



Botys Monesiisalis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xviii. p. 653 (1859). 



Botys Phanasalis, Walker, id. p. 727 (1859). 



Pale purplish-cinereous. Wings hyaline, opalescent : forewing crossed by five 

 blackish-bordered brownish-ochreous zigzag bauds, the two outer bands with their 

 inner edge denticulated ; a black orbicular spot, and a reniform mark in the middle 

 band : hindwincr with a short black and ochreous streak on the discocellular and 

 base of median veins, and a fuliginous-bordered denticulated brownish-ochreous 

 marginal band. Cilia with a brown inner line. Body, head, and palpi brown- 

 speckled ; abdomen with blackish-speckled dorsal bauds, and a black aual tuft in 

 male ; fore tibiae and all the tarsi with brown bauds ; middle tibi^ with longitudinal 

 brown streaks. 



Expanse IxV inch. 



Genus NOORDA. 

 Noorda, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xix. p. 978 (1859). 



Forewing narrow, rather long, apex obtuse, exterior margin hardly oblique ; cell 

 long, extending two-thirds the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fourth before 

 end of the cell, second free, third bifid, fifth from end of the cell ; discocellular out- 

 wardly oblique, radials from near the ends ; middle median from close to end of cell, 

 lower at nearly one-third ; submedian straight : hindwing rather long and broad ; 

 exterior margin very oblique, slightly convex ; cell broad, extending about two-fifths 

 the length ; subcostals from end, upper branch joined for a short distance above its 

 end to the costal ; discocellular very oblique, deeply concave, radial from extended 

 lower end ; middle median close to end, lower about one-third ; submedian and 

 internal veins slightly curved. Body rather stout; labial palpi long, smoothly 



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