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Fore wing with slightly oblique ferruginous band from upper angle 

 of cell to inner margin ; three ferruginous specks below costa 

 towards apex and a marginal series of specks. 



Hob. Meean Meer, Punjab ; Mlgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 14 millim. 



4254. Patissa luteifrons, n. sp. 



<S . Silky white ; palpi, frons, and basal joint of antennae 

 fulvous yellow ; antennae serrated with brown ; abdomen and legs 

 tinged with yellow, the latter fuscous above. Fore wing with the 

 costa narrowly fulvous yellow. 



Hab. Calcutta (Atkinson). Exp. 28 millim. Type in B. M. 



4255. Patissa virginea, Zell Mon. Chil fy Cramb. p 2. 



Crambus multivagellus, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 462 ; C. # S. 



no. 4698. 



Pure white; palpi and legs slightly tinged with fulvous. Fore 

 wing sometimes with black speck at upper angle of cell. 



Hab. S. Africa ; Mhow ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 22 millim. 



4256. Patissa curvilinealis, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 912. 



Yellowish white ; palpi and antennae tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing with the basal two-thirds of costa reddish brown ; a curved 

 brown line from costa near apex to near base of inner margin ; a 

 marginal brown line. Hind wing white, with faint traces of an 

 oblique medial brown line and a fine marginal line. 



Hab. Ceylon (Pole). Exp., 6 12, $ 18 millim. 



Genus SCIRPOPHAGA. 



Scirpophaga, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. ix, 1, p. 55 (1832). 

 Apurima, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 194 (1863). 



Type, & prcelata, Scop., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi porrect, extending from once to twice the length of head, 

 slightly clothed with hair, and with the 3rd joint downcurved ; 

 maxillary palpi rather short and dilated with scales ; a slight 

 rounded frontal projection; antennae of male minutely serrated, 

 ciliated; patagia of male with spreading upturned hair; tibiae 

 with the outer spurs about half the length of inner ; abdomen 

 long, in female expanding at extremity and with very large anal 

 tuft ; wings long and narrow. Fore wing with vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight and well separated from 

 8,9; 10 and 11 free, or 11 becoming coincident with 12. Hind 

 wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



