328 NocruiDiE. 



rufous shade along median nervure and thence to terinen between 

 veins 5 and 3 ; sometimes with antemedial dark point in submedian 

 fold and postmedial series of dark points on the veins with points 

 before them in discal and submedian folds; a fine brown terminal 

 line ; cilia ochreous white. Hind wing pure white ; the underside 

 with the costal area tinged with ochreous. 



Fig. 144. — Sesamia informs, $. \. 



Hub. Japan, Yokohama {Pryer), 1 J,2 $ type innocens, Tsu- 

 shima (SeeboTim), 1 2 ; Cehtb. China, Mngpo (Leech), 1 J,Ichang 

 (Mrs. Pratt), 1 ? ; ■ W. China, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 1 $ ; 

 Formosa (Hobson), 1 S , 2 $ , types tranquilaris and gracilis ; 

 Bengal, Cawnpur (Betton), 2 S, Fatehpur (Betton), 1 $; Assam, 

 1 5; Madras, Coimbatore ( Walhouse), 1 $ ; Ceylon (Templeton, 

 Green), 3 $ type, Puttalam (Pole), 1 $ ; Burma, Moulmein (Clerk), 

 1 £ type jjroscrijyta, Rangoon (Scott), 1 tf , 2 $ , Irrawaddy B., 

 Sheemagar ^Carpenter), 1 $ ; Andamans, 1 $ ; Penang (iloiver), 

 1 § ; Singapore (Ridley), 1 cT , 1 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 

 1 cJ , Kuching (Shelford), 1 c? ; Philippines, Taytai (Betton), 3 $ ; 

 Celebes. j&pp. 24-34 millim. 



Larva. Indian Museum Notes, v. p, 178, pi. xii. f. 9. 



Cylindrical, tapering rather suddenly to head and less so to 

 anal somite; smooth, shining, flesh-coloured, with a few colourless 

 bristles ■ the segments broadly and shallowly pitted ; head 

 ferruginous, the mouth-parts black ; spiracles black ; dorsal vessel 

 dark. Food-plant : Sugar-cane, in the stem of which it bores. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. 

 A. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked in both sexes. 



4760. Sesamia sabulosa, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly mixed with brown. 

 Fore wing ochreons white irrorated with reddish brown ; 

 traces of antemedial dark points on costa, median nervure, and 

 vein 1 ; a blight brownish shade in lower angle of cell and 

 below and beyond the angle ; a postmedial series of blackish points on 

 the veins, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; a diffused 

 brownish patch on costa towards apex and an oblique shade from 

 termen at vein 6 to vein 4 ; a terminal series of dark striae ; cilia 

 white mixed with brown and with brown line through them. Hind 



