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THE ANNALS 



AND 



ilAGAZLXE OF NATURAL HISTOEY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 117. SEPTEMBER 1917. 



XXI. — Descriptions of New Pyralidee of the Subfamilies 

 Hydrocampiupe, Scoparianse, S^c. By Sir George F. 

 Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Continued from vol. xix. p. 473.] 



(27 a) Aiilacocles mesoscialis, s^). n. 



Head and fi'ont part of thorax white with some dark red-brown 

 on shoulders and tegulse, the hinder part of thorax yellow ; abdo- 

 men white at base, then yellow; antennae yellow; palpi yellow, 

 white at base ; pectus, legs, and ventral sui'face of abdomen white, 

 the legs tinged with yellow, the fore femora above and tibiae at 

 extremities dark brown. Fore wing golden yellow ; a white patch 

 in end of cell ; a red-brown fascia on costal area to beyond middle, 

 where it is conjoined to a deeper red-brown patch beyond the cell 

 confluent with a red-brown fascia on medial area extending from 

 the cell to above the inner margin, which is white below it ; a 

 triangular silvery-white postmedial patch beyond the red-brown 

 area from below costa to vein 4 ; an obliquely curved silvery white 

 subterminal band from costa to vein 1, defined on inner side by a 

 rather diffused red-brown line and on outer by a fine black Hne ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; ciha white tinged with red-brown. 

 Hind wing white, the inner area and terminal area broadJy golden 

 yellow, the white area defined by an oblique black postmedial line 

 between A'ein 4 and the submedian fold ; an obhque silvery white 

 line from costa before apex to termen at discal fold ; minute 

 ocellate white spots defined by black and with black points on their 

 outer edges before termen above and below vein 4, then a small 



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