628 Pieter C. T. Snellen 071 a 



Genus Syngamia, Guen., p. 187 ; Led., p. 434. 

 203. Syngamia Jioridalis. 



Boti/sfloridaUs, Zeller, Micropt. Caff., p. 60. 

 yEtJtaioessa Jioridalis, Lederer, Wieu. Ent. Mon., vii., 



p. 435, pi. 17, f. 2. 

 Botys Witialis, Felder &Eogenh., Nov., ii., 2, pi. 135, 



f. 8. 

 Syngamia fioridalis, MejTick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



1886,' p. 239. 

 I agree with Mr. Meyrick that the genus JEthalo'essa, 

 Lederer, may be united to Syngamia, Gueuee, Lederer. 



Darjeeling, 20th June and 4th August, 1886 ; H. J. 

 Elwes. Tendong, 1st August ; id. Sikkim ; Moller. 



[This very wide-ranging species was not uncommon 

 at light.— H. J. E.] 



Genus Gonocausta, Led., Wien. Ent. Mon., vii., p. 436. 

 204. Gonocausta ? vestigialis, nov. spec. 



Three males of 25 — 26 mm. expanse. 



In this species the shape of fore wings is as in Oonocausta 

 ze])liyralis, Lederer, Wien. Ent. Mon., vii., p. 436, pL 17, f. 5,''' but 

 the hind wings are more hke those of ^tliolix flavihasalis, Guen., 

 male (the female of that species has shorter rounded hind wings) ; 

 the palpi, however, are porrect, like those of zei)hyraUs, and not 

 recurved. Strictly, a new genus should be formed, but as I have 

 only males of the new species, and thus am not able to give the 

 characters in full, I prefer to place vestigialis provisionally in 

 Gonocausta. Labial palpi porrect, rostriform, bicolorous, white 

 and ochreous brown; maxillary palpi filiform. Ocelli present. 

 Forehead rounded. Antennas two-thirds of fore wings, setaceous, 

 distinctly ciliated ; apex of fore wings rather acute, slightly 

 recurved ; hind margin as in zepJiyralis, Led. Hind wings nearly 

 triangular, the apex and anal angle distinct but obtuse, the hind 

 margin nearly straight, with two shallow undulations. Colour of 

 body and wings ochreous, the former and the base of wings darker, 

 the hind margin of fore wings and the apex of hind wings pale 

 fuscous; the remainder paler, shining, thinly clothed. Fore wings 



■■' I have a specimen of zephyralis from Columbia, but never 

 received it from India. It is also not enumerated among the 

 Indian PyraUdina in Colonel Swinhoe's ' Catalogue of the Moths 

 of India,' and so the habitat given by Lederer may be considered 

 at least to be doubtful. 



