THE ANNALS 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[EIGHTH SERLES.] 
No. 117. SEPTEMBER 1917. 
XXI.—Deseriptions of New Pyralide of the Subfamilies 
Hydrocampine, Scopariane, &c. By Sir Georee F. 
Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S., &c. 
[Continued from vol, xix. p. 473. ] 
(27a) Aulacodes mesoscialis, sp. n. 
Head and front part of thorax white with some dark red-brown 
on shoulders and tegulw, the hinder part of thorax yellow; abdo- 
men white at base, then yellow; antenne yellow; palpi yellow, 
white at base; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, 
the legs tinged with yellow, the fore femora above and tibie at 
extremities dark brown. Fore wing golden yellow ; a white patch 
in end of cell; a red-brown fascia on costal area to beyond middle, 
where it is conjoined to a deeper red-brown patch beyond the cell 
confluent with a red-brown fascia on medial area extending from 
the cell to above the inner margin, which is white below it; a 
triangular silvery-white postmedial patch beyond the red-brown 
area from below costa to vein 4; an obliquely curved silvery white 
subterminal band from costa to vein 1, defined on inner side by a 
rather diffused red-brown line and on outer by a fine black line; a 
terminal series of black points ; cilia white tinged with red-brown. 
Hind wing white, the inner area and terminal area broadly golden 
yellow, the white area defined by an oblique black postmedial line 
between vein 4 and the submedian fold; an oblique silvery white 
line from costa before apex to termen at discal fold; minute 
ocellate white spots defined by black and with black points on their 
outer edges before termen above and below vein 4, then a small 
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