332 xoerriD.E. 



2 0, Leech Coll.; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Fergana; Punjab, 

 Dharmsala (Hocking), 1 $ type fraterna, Kangra (Dudgeon), 1 $; 

 Sikhim, L800' (Dudgeon), 1 $. fi^p. 30-42 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moth* Eur. p. L66 ; Hffin. Raup. p. L05. 



Ochreous whitish; head rufous, spiracles black. Food-plant, in 

 stalks of Maize. 



4767. Sesamia uniforms. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 25). 

 Nonagria uniformis, Dudgeon, .T. Bomb. Soc. xvi. p. 402 (1905). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous slightly tinged with brown ; palpi 

 fuscous, whitish below; Irons tinged with fuscous; fore a ad mid 

 legs irrorated with fuscous; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 olive ochreous sparsely irrorated with dark brown ; an antemedial 

 black point in submedian fold ; a slight diffused fuscous shade on 

 extremity of median nervure and just beyond lower angle of cell ; 

 a slight black point in lower angle of cell and another in discal fold 

 just beyond discocellulars ; postinedial black points in discal and sub- 

 median folds with traces of a curved series of points beyond them 

 on the veins ; a fine blackish terminal line not quite reaching apex 

 and tornus ; cilia ochreous white with faint brownish Hues near 

 base and tips. Hind wing pure white ; the uuderside with the costal 

 area slightly tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown. 



Hah. Bengal, Burogah (Mackenzie), 1 S , 1 $ type, Cawnpur 

 {Bitton), 1 $ ; Bombay, Surat. Exp. 6 32, § 34-3S millim. 



Larva. Destructive to Sugar-cane. 



*476S. Sesamia gracilis. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 20.) 



Tapinostola gracilis, Rebel, Ann. Naturh. Hofmus. Wien, xiii. p. 365 

 (iS'JS); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly tinged with rufous. 

 Pore wing yellowish white irrorated with brown, the median nervure 

 streaked with brown, the veins of terminal area with pale streaks ; 

 cilia white. Hind wing pure white. 



Hab. Canaries, Sta. Cruz, type t 6 in Mus. Vienna. Exp. 

 28 millim. 



Genus ARGYR0SPILA. 



Type. 



Argyrospila, Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. Schuiett. ii. p. 374 (1847) succi?iea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint hardly 

 reaching to middle of Irons and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 

 3rd short ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenme of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the prothorax with spreading 

 crest, t he metathorax without crest; build slender; tibiae moderately fringed 

 wit 1 1 hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced , 

 the termen obliquely curved aud hardly crenulate; reins 3 and 5 from near 

 augle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 'J from 10 anastomosing with S to form 

 thearcole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins ."., 4 from augle of cell ; 5 ob- 

 solescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



