Classification of the Pyralidas. 



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free. Hindwing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 i'l cm 

 angle ; 6, 7 stalked. 



Type. Xenomilia iiumeralis, Warr., A. M. N. H. (6), 



xvii., p, 459 Assam. 



Genus Heterocrasa. 



Hetorocrasa, Warr., A. M. N. H. (6), xvii., p. 459 (18! 



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$ . Palpi downcurved, extending about three times length of 

 head and thickly scaled ; maxillary palpi minute ; frons -witii a, 

 sharp tuft ; antenna of female almost simple ; tibiae and tarni 



Heterocrasa expansalis, $. ',. 



moderately scaled ; vein 3 from below angle of cell ; 4, 5 from 

 angle ; 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked, 7 being given off just beyond 9 ; 10, ] I 

 free. Hindwing with vein 3 from M'ell before angle of cell; 4, [> 

 separate ; 6, 7 stalked. 



Type, Heterocrasa expansali!*, Warr., A. M. N. H. 



(6), xvii., p. 459 Assam. 



Genus Bostra. • 



Bostra, Wlk., xxvii., 123 (1863). 

 Phasga, Wlk., xxvii., 127. 

 Scotomera, But!., P. Z. S., 1881, p. 022. 

 Megalomia, Rag., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr,, 1891, p. 35. 

 Comaria, Rag., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1891, p. 639. 

 Paredra, Snell., Midd. Sura., iv. (1), 8, p. 60 (1892). 

 Scotomerodes, Rag., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1895, p. 

 xcvii. 



Stygiochroa, Rag., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1895, p. clxxi. 



Palpi porrect, downcurved at extremity, and thickly clothed 

 •with hair ; maxillary palpi filiform ; a sharp frxjntal tuft usually 

 present ; antennae of male serrate amd fasciculate ; tibias moder- 



