122 PYRALID-E. 



B. (Sarama). Antenna of male minutely serrate and fasciculate; 



palpi of female with a tuft of hair at extremity of 2nd joint on 

 inside. Fore wing with tivo large tufts of scales below the cell and 

 large tuft in and beyond the end; a ridge of scales below vein 2, 

 and small tufts in the interspaces betiveen veins 2 and 5. 



4461. Stericta atkinsoni, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 204 ; C. $ S. no. 4487. 



Head and thorax yellowish olive, variegated with black and 

 white. Fore wing yellowish olive, with more or less white on 

 basal and postmedial areas ; a black patch on basal costal area ; 

 two conjoined patches forming a diffused antemedial band ; some 

 black suffusion on disk ; the tufts black and white ; an indistinct 

 minutely dentate curved postmedial line ; cilia chequered white 

 and black. Hind wing white, with slight fuscous suffusion, which 

 is strongest on apical area ; a curved minutely dentate postmedial 

 line ; a marginal black line ; cilia white, with a few black specks. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 30 millim. 



C. (Scopocera). Antennce of 'male thickened and flattened ; fore wing 



with ridges of long hair beyond the cell below veins 2 and 6, and 

 a shorter ridge above vein 6; hind wing with ridges below 

 vein 6 and between lower angle of cell and anal angle. 



4462. Stericta sinuosa, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 203, pi. 7, fig. 3 ; C. $ S. 



no. 4485. 



Olive-green suffused with golden rufous ; abdomen banded with 

 black. Fore wing with the area from base to postmedial line, 

 except the costal area, pale ; the tufts below and in cell formed by 

 long hair ; the ridges composed of fiery red, black, and white 

 hair; the postmedial line dentate, with white outer edge and 

 excurved between veins 5 and 2. Hind wing with the basal and 

 costal areas pale ; the ridges composed of black, white, and fulvous 

 hair ; the postmedial line white, dentate, and excurved between 

 veins 2 and 6. Both wings with a marginal series of dark specks. 

 Underside pale, except the outer area of fore wing ; both wings 

 with dentate postmedial line. 



Hab. Bhutan ; Sikhim. Exp., rf 20, $ 30 millim. 



4463. Stericta pyraliata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 202 ; C. $ 8. no. 4484. 



Olive-green variegated with rufous and fuscous. Fore wing 

 with the tufts composed of black, white, and rufous scales ; the 

 c-osta fuscous ; a pale waved antemedial line with large fuscous 

 patch inside it on inner area ; a dark discocellular spot ; a pale 

 postmedial line excurved between veins 5 and 2, with a broad band 

 of fuscous suffusion on its inner side and slight fuscous suffusion 

 beyond it, and some cupreous scales on inner area ; a marginal 

 series of black stria). Hind wing pale ; the outer area suffused 



