328 NOCTTJID^.. 



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 ot 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 inferens, (^ . \. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama (Pryer), 1 cj , 2 $ type innocem, I'su- 

 shima (/S'ee6o7t)H), 1 2 ; Cenir. Ceina, Ningpo (zW/i), 1 J , Ichaug 

 {Mrs. Pratt), 1 $ ; W. China, Chia-kou-ho {Pratt), 1 $ ; 

 Formosa {Hobson), ] c? , 2 § , types tranquilaris and gracilis ; 

 Bengal, Cawnpur (2^e«o/i), 2 cS , Fatehimv {Betton), 1 5; Assam, 

 1 $; Madras, Coimbatore {Walhouse), 1 5 ; CErLOx {Templeton, 

 Green\Z $ type, Puttalam {Pole), 1 5 ; Burma, Moulmein {Clerk), 

 1 2 type proscrijota, llangoon {Scott), 1 (S , 2 $ , Irrawaddy E,., 

 Sheemagar {^Carpenter), 1 2 5 Andamans, 1 $ ; Penang {hloiver), 

 1 5 ; Singapore {Eidhy), 1 (^ , 1 $ ; Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 

 1 S , Kuching (/S7ie?/o/-cZ), 1 S ; Philippines, Taytai {Betton), 3 $ ; 

 Celebes. Exp. 24-34 millim. 



Larva. Indian Museum IN'otes, 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 ])itted ; head 

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

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



Sect. III. Antennje of male serrate and fasciculate. 

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



4760. Sesamia sabulosa, u. sp. 



Head, thora.t, and abdomen white slightly mixed with brown. 

 Fore wing ochreous 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 striiB ; cilia 

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



