Pyralidse of the Subfamily PyraustinaB. 279 



(2) Sameodesma undilinealis, sp. n. 



<$ . Head and thorax brownish grey mixed with black ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with brown ; antennae black ; palpi, pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen grey suffused with brown. Fore wing 

 grey suffused with brown and thickly irrorated with black ; a waved 

 blackish subbasal shade ; the first line almost medial, brownish 

 white defined on outer side by rather diffused black, excurved to 

 median nervure and incurved in submedian interspace ; an oblique 

 brownish white discoidal lunule defined by black and with some 

 black suffusion before it in upper part of cell ; postmedial line 

 brownish white defined on inner side by diffused black marks and 

 on outer side by diffused black towards costa, incurved at vein 7, 

 then excurved to vein 2, incurved in submedian interspace and 

 excurved at vein 1 ; a series of slight black bars on termen defined 

 on inner side by a whitish line with diffused black marks before it ; 

 cilia grey tinged with brown and with slight dark lines at middle 

 and near tips. Hind wing grey suffused with olive-brown ; a slight 

 dark terminal line ; cilia with a slight dark line near base, the tips 

 paler. 



Hab. Mashoxalajh), Salisbury {Jack), 1 d type. Exp. 24 mm. 



(3 a) Tliliptoceras androstigmata, sp. n. 



6 . Head and tegulas rufous ; thorax red-brown ; abdomen red- 

 brown, the two terminal segments and the sides on terminal half 

 yellow tinged with red ; antennae ringed with white, the basal 

 joint whitish ; sides of frons and palpi chocolate-brown, the latter 

 white below to near extremity of 2nd joint ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white, the fore legs suffused with brown 

 with white rings at extremity of tibise and on tarsi. Fore wing 

 red-brown suffused with leaden grey ; some yellowish suffused with 

 red at base of inner margin ; a yellow streak tinged with red on 

 antemedial part of costa ; rounded white spots defined by crimson- 

 red, except above where they are conjoined to the } r ellow fascia, in 

 the cell before middle and near extremity ; an oblique white spot 

 defined by crimson -red below end of cell; an orange-yellow post- 

 medial spot at costa defined on outer side by a blackish striga and 

 conjoined below to a rather quadrate white spot placed on a crimson- 

 red patch the outer edge of which is curved and extends from the 

 costa beyond the blackish striga to vein 2 ; the costa towards apex 

 yellow tinged with red ; the termen orange-yellow, narrowly from 

 just below apex to vein 5, then expanding into a triangular patch 

 ending in a point at tornus ; cilia orange-yellow with some brown at 

 apex. Hind wing with the basal area crimson-red except at costa, 

 its outer edge slightly excurved beyond the cell and strongly below 

 vein 2, an oblique white spot on it below end of cell, pointed above, 

 constricted at middle, and rounded below ; the costa white ; a broad 

 white postmedial band from the costal area to vein 2, defined on 

 outer side by a crimson-red line and by orange-yellow below ; a 

 leaden grey band on its outer side from below the costa to inner 



