Oil new Genera and Speciefi o/' Pyralidtc 389 



T-iTX. — Descriptions of new (llenera and Species o/'Pyrulida} 

 contained in the British-Museum Collection. By W. 

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



[Continued IVoni p. 302.] 



Tanaoi'IIYSa, gen. no v. 



Fore wings elongate, broadening towards tlic apex ; e ).sta 

 convex; apex blunt; liiud margin curved, oblique. Hind 

 wings rather narrow; hind margin slightly curved. Palpi 

 porrect, rostriform; tongue present; antennai simple in both 

 sexes ; distinguished by a sealeless patch in the male fore 

 wing; on leaving the cell the last two subcostal nervules are 

 slightly curved downwards for half the distance between the 

 end of the cell and the hind margin, and the whole of the 

 space between them Is without scales and diaphanous. 



Type T. adornatalis, Warr. 



Tanaophysa adornatalis, sp. n. 



Fore wings bright yellow, brownish along the costa, espe- 

 cially towards the base ; an indistinct obliquely curved iirst 

 line near the base and another exterior of the ordinary shape ; 

 a small dot in the cell near the first line and a larger one at 

 the end of the cell. Hind wings like fore wings, with the 

 exterior line repeated; fringes of both wings concolorous. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen all yellow. Underside whiter. 



Expanse of wings, $ 32, ^ 2i millim. 



A pair from S. Paolo in the British-Museum Collection. 



DiACME, gen. nov. 



Fore wings with costa straight till just before apex, where 

 it is strongly curved ; hind margin oblique, slightly indented 

 beneath apex, so that the wings appear subfalcate. Hind 

 wings also bluntly subfalcate; the hind margin in the male 

 cut otf nearly straight from inner to anal angle ; fore wings 

 in male longer and narrower than in female, but not so exag- 

 geratedly as in Stenophi/es, Led. Antennae in male finely 

 pubescent ; labial palpi short, blunt, porrect ; abdomen of 

 male with two small lateral fan-shaped tufts of erect scales 

 on either side of the penultimate segment. 



Type D. phylUsalis [Samea), VVlk. xix. p. 936. 



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