GYRIONA. ils 
6467. Gyrtona hylusalis. 
Gyrtona hylusalis, Wik. xxvii. 93 (1863); Hmpsn. Ill. Het. B.M is. 
p- LO4, pl. 163. f. 18; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 405. 
Gyrtona nigrocinerea, W1k. xxvii. 94 (1863). 
Gyrtona dorsifascialis, W\k. xxvii. 95 (1863). 
Gyrtona strenualis, Wik. xxvii. 96 (1863). 
Gyrtona monilialis, Wik. xxvii. 97 (1863). 
Nephopteryx demptella, Wik. xxxv. 1721 (1866). 
Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; pectus whitish ; 
abdomen fuscous brown with some grey at base, the ventral surface 
whitish. Fore wing dark red-brown mixed with grey and with 
slight silvery irroration ; subbasal line slight, dark, excurved below 
costa and ending at vein 1; antemedial line double, filled in with 
grey except towards costa, oblique towards costa and slightly 
incurved at vein 1, some whitish before it on inner half and some 
raised blackish scales on its outer edge in and below cell; medial 
line slight, sinuous ; reniform slightly defined by black and with 
some raised scales in centre; the outer part of medial area with 
Fig. 69.— Gyrtona hylusalis, 3. }. 
whitish patch on inner half; postmedial line formed of raised 
black scales slightly defined on inner side by whitish, bent 
outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved 
below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa and traces of 
a dark line excurved at middle; subterminal line whitish defined 
on outer side by dark brown, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and 
at middle; a terminal series of blackish strix. Hind wing 
uniform fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips, the underside 
paler. 
Hab. Travancore, Pirmid (Mrs. Imray), 1 3 ; Ceyton (Temple- 
ton, Nietner),3 3,5 9,type and types nigrocinerea, strenualis, and 
monilialis ; waB. tan., 1 5,1 2, types dorstfascialis and demptella, 
Exp. 20-24 millim. 
6468. Gyrtona oxyptera, n. sp. (Plate CLXXIX. fig. 28.) 
Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with purplish grey ; 
abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing purplish grey thickly irrorated 
with fuscous brown; the costal area suffused with brown ; two 
indistinct dark patches on basal part of costa ; antemedial line very 
indistinct, angled outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous ; 
orbicular represented by a minute tuft of raised scales; reniform 
