On new Genera and Siiecies o/'Pyralida'. 429 



LXIV. — Descriptions of neio Genera and Species of ^y\'x\h\2& 

 contained in the British-Museum Collection. By W. 

 WakiiI'N, M.A., F.E S. 



[Continued from p. 397.] 



Trischistognatha, geil, nov. 



Fore wings elongate; costa straight, slightly and gradually 

 convex at ajiex, which is blunt ; hind margin oblique, hardly 

 curved, with a very slight indentation above the anal angle. 

 Hind wings rounded. Antenna; laminated, a little thicker in 

 male than in female ; tongue present ; ocelli minute ; labial 

 palpi with all three joints very distinct ; first and second 

 securiform, the first twice as broad as the second, third shortly 

 rostriform ; maxillary palpi like the third joint of the labial ; 

 abdomen of male with rather long anal tuft ; hind tibia3 with 

 two pairs of spurs, the inner very much longer than the 

 outer ; scaling fine and smooth. Wings semidiaphanous ; 

 neuration normal. 



Type T. palindialis (Spilodes), Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 380. 



Tholeria, Hiib. 

 Type T. illiberalis^ Hiib. Verz. p. 354. 



Tholeria stigmosalis^ sp. n. 



Fore wings with base, inner and hind margins dull reddish ; 

 central area whitish, with the costa, the two stigmata, and 

 the veins round them black-brown ; the stigmata themselves 

 filled up with reddish ; the white interspaces finely dusted 

 with dark atoms ; a faint trace of a curved exterior line at 

 the extremity of the white central space; fringe. dark brown. 

 Hind wings pearly white, with an irregular, narrow, reddish- 

 brown marginal suffusion, which here and there runs up a 

 little way along the veins ; fringe white, slightly tinged with 

 reddish towards apex. Head, palpi, antennje, and thorax 

 dull reddish ; abdomen darker brown, with segmental divisions 

 white ; collar fawn-colour, paler than either head or thorax. 

 Underside : fore wings pearly white, tinged with yellowish, 

 with only the hind margin and stigmata reddish. Hind 

 wings like the upperside, but with the costa reddish brown, 



