150 



with waved black ante- and postmedial lines arising from spots 

 on the costa, the former excurved at median nervure, the latter 

 beyond lower angle of cell ; a series of dark marginal specks. 



Dharmsala specimens are greyer and without the reddish tinge ; 

 the lines of fore wing fuscous, and a spot on discocellulars is 

 present. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Bombay. Exp. 22 millim. 



SECT. II. Fore wing with veins 4, 5 stalked. 



4523. Pyralis pictalis, Curt. Br. Ent. vi, pi. 503 ; C. $ S. no. 4458. 

 Pyralis pronoealis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 906. 



Pyralis proximalis, Wlk. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1862-64, p. 120 ; C. $ S. 



no. 4460. 

 Myelois bractiatella, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 36 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii r 



pi. 178, fig. 5 ; C.Sf S. no. 4443. 

 Pyralis elachia, Butl III Net. iii, p. 70, pi. 58, fig. 3 ; C. $ S. 



no. 4444. 



Head and collar pale brown ; thorax and abdomen suffused with 

 fuscous. Fore wing with the base black, bounded by a sinuous 

 white line ; the medial area pale brown irrorated with a few black 

 scales ; a black cell-spot and some pale specks on costa ; a post- 

 medial sinuous white line with the area beyond it red. Hind wing 

 with the base black, bounded by a sinuous white line ; the medial 

 area pale brown suffused with fuscous ; an irregularly waved white 

 postmedial line with fuscous on its outer edge ; the outer area 

 whitish with fuscous on the margin. 



Hob. Europe; W. Africa; Japan; N.W. Himalayas; Nagas ; 

 Ceylon ; Burma ; Sumatra ; Gilbert Islands. Exp. 18-22 millim. 



4524. Pyralis ravolalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 898 ; Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, 



pi. 172, fig. 15 ; C. 8f S. no. 4462. 



$ . Differs from pictalis in the head, thorax, and abdomen being 

 paler. Fore whig with the basal area grey, some rufous at base 

 and on inner edge of the antemedial line, which is more oblique ; 

 the postmedial line incurved at middle instead of excurved, oblique 

 and terminating at outer angle. Hind wing with the postmedial 

 line running out to near the margin from veins 4 to 2, then bent 

 in to near the antemedial line ; a series of prominent black specks- 

 on apical part of margin. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Borneo. Exp. 20 millim. 



4525. Pyralis funebralis, Warr. A. M.N. H. (6) xvi, p. 464. 



$ . Fuscous brown with a grey tinge. Fore wing with the 

 basal area rather darker and bounded by a sinuous white line ; a 

 dark discocellular spot ; some white specks on medial part of costa 

 and a white patch at the origin of the obsolescent postmedial line r 

 which is excurved between veins 6 and 2. Hind wing with the 



