332 NOCTUID.E. 



2 2, Leech Coll.; W. Tukkesta:;^, Tarcomania, Fergana; Puw\b, 

 Uharinsala (ffocl-iag), 1 5 type fratdrna, Kiingra, (Dudf/eoii), 1 5; 

 SiKHiM, 1800' (Dudgeon), 1 $ . E.V2^. 30-42 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 166 ; Hffui. Raup. p. 105. 



Oclireous Avhitish ; head rufous, spiracles black. Food-plant, in 

 stalks of Maize. 



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

 Nonagrla unifon/iis, Dudgeon, J. Bomb. Soc. xvi. p. 402 (1905). 



Head and thorax pale oohreous slightlj- tinged with brown ; palpi 

 fuscous, whitish below ; frons tinged with fuscous ; fore and raid 

 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 ; postmedial 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 lines near 

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

 area slightly tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown. 



Hab. Bengal, Burogah {Mackenzie), 1 cS , 1 2 f.'^pe, Cawnpur 

 (Betion), 1 cJ ; Bombay, Surat. Exj). 6 32, $ 34-3S millim. 



Larva. Destructive to Sugar-cane. 



*o 



*4768. Sesamia gracilis. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 26.) 



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

 (1898) ; SUud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. 



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

 Fore 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. 



Hah. Caxaktes, Sta. Cruz, type t 6 in Mus. Vienna. Exp. 

 28 millim. 



Genus ARGYROSPILA. 



Type. 



Argyrospila, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 374 (1847) swjcinea. 



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 ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; antenn:e of male ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scale.=;, the prothorax with spreading 

 crest, the metathorax without crest ; build slender ; tibiae moderately fringed 

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

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

 angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 theareole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins .">, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 ob- 

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

 cell near base only. 



