Genera and Species o/*Pyralid8e. 105 



Genus Synclera, Led. 

 Synclera fenestralis, sp. n. 



Fore wings pale yellowish, with dark reddish-brown 

 markings ; a short line close to base, and a curved wavy one 

 beyond, followed by a fine nearly vertical line ; central space 

 red-brown along costa, extending more narrowly into the 

 disk to below the middle, with three irregularly shaped large 

 hyaline blotches — the first on the inner edge, bounded in- 

 wardly by a fine brown line, the other two on the outer 

 edge, one above the other, each finely brown-edged ; a wavy 

 brown line follows the central area, running parallel to hind 

 margin and curving beneath the lower of the two hyaline 

 blotches to inner margin at two thirds ; a fourth hyaline 

 blotch on the costa before apex, from the outside of which 

 another fine brown line runs parallel to the last ; marginal 

 area in its apical half filled up with red-brown ; a red-brown 

 broad basal line to fringes, which are brown and white. 

 Hind wings with a red-brown, broad, bent, central mark ; 

 two indistinct curved submarginal lines, of which the first is 

 angulated and joins the central mark ; apex brown ; fringe 

 and basal line as in fore wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 yellowish, mixed with dull brown. Underside of fore wings 

 brownish, with the three central hyaline blotches well 

 marked. Hind wings yellowish, with the markings brown, 

 as on the upperside. 



Expanse of wings 21 millim. 



One male from the Khasias. 



Cheysommatodes, gen. nov. 



Fore wings elongate ; costa straight, slightly convex 

 towards apex, which is blunt ; hind margin oblique, hardly 

 curved, except just before anal angle. Hind wings narrow ; 

 both angles rounded ; hind margin faintly curved. Forehead 

 slightly prominent; antennae (J) thick, pubescent, the basal 

 joint enlarged, swollen, with a hood-like crest of scales behind ; 

 thorax bluntly tufted behind ; ocelli present ; maxillary palpi 

 small, filiform ; labial palpi porrect, curved above, produced 

 beyond face, but not rostriform ; tongue present. Neuration 

 normal ; the first median in both wings at about four fifths. 

 Scaling smooth and glossy. 



Type Chrysommatodes CBreoflavalis, sp. n. 



Chrysommatodes cereojlavalisj sp. n. 

 Wings bright gilded yellow; costa of fore wings diffusely 



