Pyralids of the Subfamily Crambine. 449 
with red-brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white 
tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish suffused with red-brown ; 
a rather diffused dark red-brown fascia below median nervure to 
just beyond end of cell and a few black-brown scales beyond the 
cell; a terminal series of minute black spots with silvery white 
points in centres ; cilia silvery white with a red-brown line at base. 
Hind wing white, the costal area tinged with red-brown ; a red- 
brown terminal line from apex to vein 2. Underside of fore wing 
and costal area of hind wing suffused with red-brown. 
Hab. Brneat, Patna, 2 3b type. Hwp. 24 mm. 
Larva in sugar-cane. 
(26 7). Argyria sticticraspis, sp. n. 
@. Head and thorax greyish ochreous suffused with red-brown ; 
palpi irrorated with dark brown ; abdomen greyish ochreous with 
some rufous at base of dorsum ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 
abdomen white tinged with ochreous brown. Fore wing greyish 
ochreous suffused with red-brown, the cell and areas just below 
and beyond it irrorated with darker red-brown; a curved post- 
medial series of small red-brown spots in the interspaces from below 
costa to above vein 1; a terminal series of minute black spots 
defined on inner side by slight white spots ; cilia with slight red- 
brown lines near base and at middle. Hind wing pure white. 
Underside of fore wing white tinged with rufous. 
Hab. Mapras, Coimbatore (B. Fletcher), 1 2 type. Exp. 
30 mm. 
Larva in sugar-cane, 
(264) Argyria coniorta, sp. n. 
3. Head and thorax pale red-brown; antenne ringed black 
and white; palpi whitish mixed with dark brown; abdomen 
whitish dorsally suffused with brown towards base; pectus, legs, 
and ventral surface of abdomen white tinged with red-brown. 
Fore wing pale red-brown mixed with some whitish and irrorated 
with blackish especially along median nervure and in and beyond 
end of cell; a medial series of slight black spots, incurved below 
the cell and sometimes reduced to the spot below the cell; two 
blackish discoidal points, the lower one sometimes defined on outer 
side by white ; a more or less distinct curved blackish subterminal 
line ; a terminal series of minute black spots defined on inner side 
by minute white spots ; cilia with two dark lines through them. 
Hind wing almost pure white. Underside of fore wing and the 
costal area of hind wing suffused with reddish brown. 
Hab. Sixxrm, 1800’ (Dudgeon), 1 $ ; Beneat, Behar, Pusa, 
4 3 type. Exp. 20-26 mm. 
Larva im sugar-cane. 
(267) Argyria argyropasta, sp. n. 
¢o. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some dark brown ; 
abdomen white tinged with brown; pectus, legs, and ventral 
