On new Pyralidae /row the Khasia Hills. 163 



wing as a dull blood-red stripe; a similar (but imperfect) 

 oblique subapical purplish-black dash, followed almost imme- 

 diately by an oblique inwardly directed arched stripe of red, 

 which runs to inner margin ; a black discocellular dash : 

 secondaries straw-yellow, with a black spot on upper disco- 

 cellular veinlet and a red dash near anal angle : face ochreous ; 

 vertex of head and broadly pectinated antennae black ; collar 

 and front of pterygodes stramineous ; remainder of pterygodes 

 and thorax sericeous sordid creamy white ; abdomen greyer, 

 yellowish at sides. Under surface of all the wings ochreous ; 

 primaries with no inner band and the outer band reduced to 

 an oblique dash ; black discocellular dash as above : second- 

 aries with a red spot beyond the cell ; otherwise as above : 

 body below cream-coloured, the legs partly stramineous ; 

 palpi ochreous. 



Expanse of wings 33 millim. 



(J , Kasitu River, foot of Jakwa Mountain, Henga, west 

 of Lake Nyasa, June 16th, 1895. 



XXVIII. — New Species o/Pyralidae from the Khasia Hills. 

 By W. Waeren, M.A' , F.E.S. 



[Contiuued from p. 119,] 



HaliOTIGKIS, gen. nov. 



Fore wings narrow and elongate ; costa straight for three 

 fourths, then gradually curved ; apex rectangular ; hind 

 margin curved, more obliquely in the lower half; anal angle 

 obtuse. Hind wings with both angles and hind margin 

 rounded, the latter slightly bent in middle. Abdomen of 

 male extending far beyond hind wings. Antennte finely 

 ciliated, the basal joint enlarged. Labial palpi obliquely 

 upturned; second joint thick, third short, bluntly pointed; 

 maxillary palpi absent; tongue developed; ocelli present, 

 pale, with dark rim ; vertex of head with rough hairs. 

 Neuration : fore wings with cell half the length of wings ; 

 discocellular slightly concave ; first median at five sixths, 

 third from lower angle of cell, second just before, lower radial 

 just above, the angle ; upper median below the upper angle, 

 last subcostal from it; third and fourth stalked; first and 

 second free. Hind wings with first subcostal anastomosing 

 for some considerable distance with costal; medians and 

 radial as in fore wrings. 



Type Haliotigris cometa, sp. n. 



