152 PYEALIDvE. 



The form minimalis from Ceylon is small with the rufous areas 

 darker. 



Hob. Simla ; Dharmsala ; Ceylon. Eocp. 18 millim. ; minimalis 

 12 millim. 



4529. Pyralis snbresectalis, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 565. 



$ . Pale olive-brown. Pore wing with the apex produced and 

 acute ; an indistinct slightly curved pale antemedial line ; a black 

 speck at upper angle of cell ; a pale incurved postmedial line, with 

 the area beyond it bright red ; the cilia pale, red at apex. Hind 

 wing fuscous suffused with rufous ; traces of dark antemedial and 

 medial lines ; some dark specks on margin at apex. Underside 

 with cell-speck and pale waved postmedial line to both wings. 



Hob. Sikhim. Eucp. 24 millim. 



4530. Pyralis regalis, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 124. 



Pyralis pulchellalis,3/*7/. Cat. Up. Alpes-Marit. pt. 2, p. 214 (1873). 

 Pyralis princeps, Butl. III. Het. vii; p. 91, pi. 134, fig. 12. 



Head and collar fulvous ; thorax and abdomen purplish fuscous. 

 Fore wing bright purple, with a large triangular golden-yellow and 

 orange patch from middle of costa to apex, extending down to 

 vein 2, inwardly edged by a line with a dark-edged silvery-white 

 band on it from costa to vein 2 ; a sinuous postmedial line with 

 white spot on it from costa to vein 6. Hind wing purple, with 

 dark-edged sinuous white ante- and postmedial lines, the latter 

 with diffused fuscous on its inner edge ; the outer area violaceous 

 with some fuscous on the margin. 



Hob. S. Europe ; Amur ; Japan ; Dharmsala. Exp. 22 millim. 



Genus TEGULIFERA. 



Tegulifera, Saalm. Ber. Senck. Ges. 1879-80, p. 305. 

 Peucela, Rag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 47. 



Type, T. rubicundalis, Saalm., from Nossi-Be. 



Range. Neotropical region ; Tunis ; S. Africa ; Madagascar ; 

 India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Borneo. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint thickly scaled and reaching vertex 

 of head, the 3rd short ; maxillary palpi minute ; antennae of male 

 serrate and fasciculate ; tibiae moderately hairy, the spurs long. 

 Pore wing rather long and narrow ; vein 3 from before end of cell : 

 4, 5 approximated for nearly one-third length ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 

 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 

 approximated for about one-third length ; 6, 7 on a short stalk. 



SECT. I. (Peucela). Patagia of male not extending beyond 

 metathorax. 



4531. Tegulifera faviusalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 907. 

 Pyralis drapesalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 909. 

 Pyralis nonusalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 909. 



