On new Pyralidse of the Subfamily Pyralinae. G5 



latter broadly reflcxed, the front margin very gently excised, 

 and a rowof stiff bristles traversing the middle from side to side. 

 The eyes are rather small and far apart. The lateral margins 

 of the prothorax are distinctly siiiuated in their posteiior half, 

 the hind angles a little produced and acute and the base 

 impressed on each side. The elytra are sulcate and the sulci 

 contain rather coarse but shallow punctures. 



The genus is apparently related to Tevaserica, which I 

 do not know, and which has been described from the male 

 alone, the antenna of which has the last four joints rather 

 long but much less elongate than in the present insect. This 

 has not the forehead narrow and the eyes very large and 

 prominent, as in Teraserica. Tlie strongly bisinuated sides 

 of the prothorax and acutely produced hind angles are very 

 characteristic, and another peculiarity which, so far as I know, 

 is not found elsewhere is in the sha[)e of the elytra. These 

 are separately rounded at their hinder niargiiis, with the 

 sutural angles extremely blunt, so that a wide angle is formed 

 and a considerable part of the abdomen exposed. The 

 peculiar appiaraiice, however, is chiefly due to the fact that 

 this part of the elytra is strongly depressed along the suture. 



IV. — Descriptions of Neiv Pyralidse of the Subfamilies 

 Epipaschianse, Chrysanginse, Endotrichinte, and Pyralinse, 

 By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S,, &c. 



[Coucluded from vol. xviii. p. 373.] 



(2 b) Pyralis nigricilialis, sp. n. 



S • Head and thorax creamy Avhite tinged with pui'pHsh red, 

 especially the tegulse ; antennaa purplish red ; abdomen creamy 

 white mixed with purplish red and dorsally banded with black 

 except at base and extremit}'-. Fore wing creamy white mixed 

 with purplish red, the basal area suffused with black except at 

 base of inner margin, the costa black, • rather diffused toAvards 

 apex ; antemedial line defining the black area, creamy white 

 slightly defined on outer side by purplish-red and black scales, 

 excurved below costa ; the medial part of costa with three white 

 points ; a round white spot dehned by purplish red at upper angle 

 of cell, another below the lower angle conjoined to a patch of 

 confluent anuuli beyond the lower angle, and another annulus 

 on vein 1 ; postmedial line white defined on each side by ^^urplish 

 red, oblique to discal fold, then slightly waved ; cilia black mixed 



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