508 Sir George F. Hampson on the 



palpi filiform ; antennae of male ciliated ; tibise moderately hairy. 

 Forewing with the apex roundeJ ; vein 3 from before angle of 



Pyralis ma)iihotaUs, ^, } (from Moths Ind , vol. iv.) 



cell ; 4, 5 usually stalked ; 7 given off from 8 before 9 ; 10, 11 

 free. Hindwing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 and 

 6, 7 stalked. 



Sect. I. Forewing with veins 4, 5 approximated for a 

 short distance. 

 (1). fPYRALis RECiSALts, Swinh., P. Z. S., 1885, N.-W.and W. 

 p. 866 ....... India. 



Sect. II. Forewing with veins 4, 5 stalked. 



(2). Pyralis cuprina, Zell., Verb. Z.-B. Ver., 



1872, p. 497 . . . • . . U. S. A. 

 (3). '-Pi-RALIS CAUSTICA, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc, 



1884, p. 282 Australia. 



(4). Pyralis electalis, Hulst., Tr. Am. Ent. 



Soc, 13, p. 146 ..... California. 

 (6). Pyralis obsoletalis, Minn , Wien Ent. S.Europc, Ar- 

 Mon., 1864, p. 179, pi. 4 . . . menia,Aden. 



l^'ype. (6). Pyralis farixalis, Linn. . Palsearctic, ^Ethiopian, Neo- 

 •\ Pyralis fraterna, But!., Ill, arctic, Neotropical regions, 

 Het, iii., p. 70, pi. 58, Japan, Afghanistan, Aus- 

 fig. 4. tralia, New Zealand. 



(7). fPYRALis DOMESTiCALrs, Zell., Isis, 1847, 



p. 590 Sicily. 



(8). Pyralis lienigialis, Zell., S. E. Z., 1843, 



p. 140 N. Europe. 



(9). Pyralis pictalis, Curt., Brit. Ent., xi., Europe, W. 



p. 527 Africa, Japan^ 



Pyralis jjrotioealis, Wlk., xix., 906. India, Ceylon 



Pyralis suggeralis, Wlk., xxxiv., 1237. and Burma, 



Pyralis proximalis, Wlk., Trans. Ent. Soc, Sumatra,Bor- 



1862-4, p. 120. neo, Gilbert 



■fMyelois hraciiatella, Wlk., xxvii., p. 36. Isl. 



