258 Mr. Warren on the Pyralidina collected 



S' are without the subapical tuft of scales which charac- 

 terises the genus Semnia, to which Felder, judging from 

 the superficial resemblance of the ? , referred it. 



There is a very peculiar characteristic in the 3" which 

 Walker seems to have quite overlooked. This is a 

 raised lappet of scales running from the base of the 

 fore wing along the subcostal nervure on the upper side. 



Before proceeding to describe the next species I pro- 

 pose to discuss the constitution of Walker's genus 

 Locastra. This genus comprises four species, described 

 from males alone, and is characterised by similar 

 antennal j^rocesses to those which occur in that sex 

 throughout the Epipaschiada, of which family Locastra 

 must certainly form a genus. 



In his typical species maimonalis, Walker describes 

 the palpi as " short, stout, ascending, closely applied to 

 the head, densely clothed with squamose hairs"; and 

 the legs as " stout, densely pilose." Now this descrip- 

 tion applies to none of the remaining three species : his 

 second sj)ecies, 2)hereciusalis, is identical with Stericta 

 divitalis {Glossina divitalis, Gn.), and his fourth, haraldu- 

 salis, which I have not seen, is most probably another 

 Stericta ; certainly not a true Locastra : the third, 

 sagarisalis, in which he describes the costa of the fore 

 wing as "notched and thickened at a little beyond the 

 middle," evidently belongs to a separate genus of the 

 same family, to which also must be referred Stericta 

 (Glossina) achatina, Butler, from Japan. Of Walker's 

 original four species of Locastra, there will therefore 

 remain only the first, maimonalis ; and even in this case 

 the specific name must give place to another of Walker's 

 own, for Eurois {?} crassipennis, Wlk., Cat. Lep. Het. 

 B. M., xi., 558, is a ? of the same species. 



EPIPASCHIAD^. 

 38. Locastra pilosa, n. s. 



Fore wings pale ochreous-yellow, with brown lines and markings ; 

 a small brown spot close to the base on the subcostal ; before the 

 middle a zigzag brown line approaching the base on the inner 

 margin, followed about the centre by a dark dot, which stands in a 

 small brown blotch ; second line denticulated, starts from the 

 middle of the costa, making a small sharp angle basewards, then 

 running outwards for a short distance, and afterwards parallel to 



