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THE AiNNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. G6. JUNE 1913. 



LXII. — Descriptions of nero Species of Pyralidae of the 

 Subfamily Pyraustinse. By Sir George F. Hampson, 

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



[Continued from p. 342.] 



Genus Paschiodes, nov. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi rostriform, downcurved, 

 extending about tArice the length o£ head, the third joint 

 hidden in hair ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons fiat and 

 oblique ; antennae of male slightly annulate and nearly- 

 simple ; kgs and tibial spurs rather long. Fore wing rather 

 elongate triangular; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from well below angle ; 7 from angle, straight and well 

 separated from 8, 9 which are stalked; 10, 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell; 4, 5 moderately 

 stalked ; G, 7 from upper angle, 8 anastomosing with 7 to 

 two-thirds of wing. 



Paschiodes mesoleucalis, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the head and base of 

 teguUe tinged with brown ; palpi blacki;<h, white at base ; 

 tarsi ringed with fuscous. Fore wing white tinged with 

 pale reddish brown, especially on basal half of costal area 

 and postmedial area, the medial area whiter; slight blackish 

 subbasal streaks below costa and in cell, followed by some 

 blackish irroration ; the first line almost medial, black, 

 erect, angled outwards on median nervure and vein 1 ; 

 blackish bars in end of cell and on discocellulars, expanding 



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