156 Colonel C. Swinhoe 07i New Species of 



Family PYRALIDiE. 



NiPHOSTOLA PUNCTATA, nov. 



(^ . White, palpi brown on the inner sides, fore-wings with some 

 pale ochreous-grey suffusion in the disc and along the hinder border, 

 two small brown spots placed obliquely before the middle and a 

 larger black spot at the end of the cell, a small black spot at the 

 apex and some grey dots on the oi;ter margin ; hind-wings with, 

 some ochreous-grey suffusion ; under-side, fore-wings ochreous-grey, 

 except on the margins. 



Expanse of wings y^V inch. 



1 $, Santubong, May 1902 {B. Shelf ord). 



Stenia hieralis, nov. 



$ . Pale chocolate-brown, fore-wings with a white spot, marked 

 with brown on each side, at the end of the cell ; another white spot 

 on the outer margin, close to the apex ; a white transverse line 

 edged inwardly with brown, before the middle ; another in the disc, 

 rather close to the outer margin, commencing with a white mark on 

 the costa near the apex, nearly straight down for two-thirds, then 

 curving round, touching the outer margin, then well inwards for 

 one-third and then straight down to the hinder margin ; hind-wings, 

 with two nearly straight similarly coloured lines ; marginal line on 

 both wings brown, cilia white with brown tips. 



Expanse of wings -/tj inch. 



1 $, Sarawak {B. Shelf ord). 

 Bradina opacusalis, nov. 



(J. Blackish-brown, palpi white beneath, abdomen with whitish 

 segmental lines and thin bands, fore-wings with an indistinct dark 

 spot in the cell and another at the end, both wings with a pale 

 ochreous marginal line ; under-side paler, fore-wings with the hinder 

 marginal space whitish, no markings. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



1 $, Kuching, Borneo, December 1900 {B. Shelf ord). 



Xanthomelaina quinquepuncta, nov. 



^ . Pale yellow, last joint of the palpi white, wings semi-hyaline, 

 fore-wings with three large black spots in the shape of a triangle, one 

 below the middle of the costa, the other two above the hinder 



