Type: 
Classification of the Pyralide. 239 
Genus Dasyscopa. 
Dasyscopa, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1894 
p. 464. , 
Palpi porrect, extending about twice the length of head, the 
2nd joint with long projecting hair below, the 3rd naked ; maxil- 
lary palpi triangularly scaled; frons flat ; antenne minutely 
ciliated ; tibiae with the outer spurs about two-thirds length of 
Dasyscopa homogenes, ¢, + (from Moths Ind., vol. iv.). 
inner. Forewing with tufts of scales at middle and end of cell ; 
vein 3 from before angie of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight and 
well separated from 8,9, to which 10 is approximated towards 
origin. Hindwing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4 from 
angle ; 5 from well above angle; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 
Sect. I. Hindwing of male with a groove on inner area, 
hairy above and with tufts of hair arising from it 
below. 
(1). tDasyscopA HOMOGENES, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Assam, Malay 
Soc. Lond., 1894, p. 464 . : ; Pen., Sambawa. 
Scoparia planilinealis, Warr., A. M. N. H. 
(6), xvil, p..207. 
Sect. II. Forewing of male with a large fringe of hair on 
basal half of costa above and a patch of scales on 
inner area below; hindwing with the costa lobed 
towards apex, which is produced; some large 
scales below costa above and a small round sub- 
apical patch; a large tuft of scales on end of 
median nervure; fore femora and tibiz fringed 
with hair. 
(2), *“DasYSCOPA POLYSEMALIS, sp. n. 
¢d. Grey mottled with black. Forewing with the costal tuft 
black ; a black mark at base of inner margin; a black discocellular 
stigma ; diffused black below and beyond end of cell; a past- 
medial line dentate below costa and excurved between veins 5 
and 2; apical area suffused with black ; a marginal series of black 
