Mr. W. Warren on new Pyralidse. 61 



Tills is very near G. cvrugmosus^ Perty, but is more elon- 

 gate ; the horn on the head is longer and more acuminate ; 

 the thorax is less transverse, with the granulation stronger 

 on the disk, leaving a fine smooth median line ; the discoidal 

 prominence is narrower. The elytra are less dull and have 

 the striffi more distinct, with the interstices (especially the 

 second and fourth) slightly convex. The metasternum is not 

 so smooth, and the punctured space on each side of the front 

 part is consequently less abruptly limited. 



VI. — Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Pyralidro 

 contained in the British-Museum Collection. By W. 

 Warren, M.A., F.E.S. 



[Contmued from vol. vii. p. 501.] 



Hyperparachma, gen. nov. 



Species of small size, under | inch. Fore wing with costa 

 abruptly arched at base, then slightly convex to apex, which 

 is bluntly rounded ; hind margin only slightly oblique ; at 

 the base of the costa is an oval space smooth-scaled above, 

 followed at one third of costa by a thick erect tuft of scales ; 

 the underside of the basal Hap is densely clothed with semi- 

 erect scales, and the whole basal half of the wing is beset with 

 hairs. Hind wing on underside with a long curved fringe of 

 hairs along the upper margin of the cell ; labial palpi ob- 

 liquely porrect ; the middle joint hairy, the terminal short, 

 inclined forward ; tongue present ; maxillary palpi invisible ; 

 antennas rather thick, especially towards the base, with 

 sharply angulated joints above, pubescent beneath ; head 

 rough ; ocelli absent. 



Type Pyralis hursarialis^ Wlk. xxxiv. p. 1231. 



Hyperparachma rubrijusca, sp. n. 



Fore wing ochreous, with a yellowish tinge, and dusted 

 with reddish atoms ; first line oblique from end of the basal 

 flap to the inner margin at one third ; second line from costa 

 at two thirds runs at first a little obliquely outwards to the 

 middle of the wing, then with an inward indentation to near 

 the anal angle ; the space between the two lines is entirely 

 filled with dull reddish-brown atoms, diffusely placed, excepting 

 a small semicircular yellowish space on the costa ; the inner 



