178 On new Genera and Species of Pyralide. 
scattered near the base ; first line angulated, with both edges 
denticulated ; second line running at first inwards, forming a 
sharp indentation below the costa, and then two gradual 
curves outwards to the inner margin, both edges, as in the 
first, denticulated ; a row of black dots at base of fringes, the 
top four being expanded into spots, filled up with grey and 
edged with black, like the two lines; reniform stigma the 
same, 8-shaped, the lower half the larger, followed by a 
smaller spot before the second line. Hind wings white, 
diaphanous, with a central black spot and series of marginal 
black dots; a largish greyish blotch near the margin towards 
the anal angle. Head, abdomen, and underside whitish. 
Expanse of wings 28 millim. 
A male from Abyssinia in the British Museum Collection. 
SPILODES, Guen. 
Type Spilodes verticalis, Linn. 8. N. x. p. 335. 
Spilodes bicoloralis, sp. n. 
Fore wings fuscous, with all the veins pale ochreous, espe- 
cially towards the hind margin ; stigmata edged with blackish ; 
the orbicular long and flattened; the reniform obliquely 
kidney-shaped; space before each paler; a black line from 
the base beneath the median and a shorter blackish patch 
beneath the submedian; a cuneiform exterior line blackish, 
interrupted by each paler vein; base of fringes dark brown, 
preceded by a straight pale ochreous space; fringes themselves 
pale, with a strong dark basal line, and their apices darker. 
Hind wings dull yellow, suffused with cinereous towards the 
base and along the costa and hind margin, with a dark cell- 
spot and a blackish curved central fascia; fringes as in fore 
wing, preceded by a distinct yellowish pale space. Head, 
thorax, and abdomen cinereous. Underside of both wings 
dull yellowish, with the markings faintly fuscous, but the 
‘two stigmata very distinct. 
Expanse of wings 30 millim. 
One male from Baghdad, evidently related to scalaralis, 
‘Christoph, and sedacowtalis, Kversm. 
Tritaa, Meyr. 
Type 7. affinitalis, Led. (Eurycreon), T. ustalis, Meyr. Tr. 
‘E. 8. Lond. 1884, p. 342. 
Tritea protealis, sp. n. 
g. Fore wing cinereous, varied with ochreous; central 
