214 PYRALIDJE. 



fore wing being narrow and more elongate. Hind wing with a 

 small dark mark at base of inner area widely separated from the 

 broad yellow postmedial band; the silvery-white specks placed 

 between the black spots instead of on them. 



Hob. Dharmsala; Sikhim; Ceylon. Exp.,<$ 18-30, $22millim. 



4685. Aulacodes plicatalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1332. 

 Oligostigma simplicialis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xix, p. 201, pi. 8, 



fig. 6. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with fawn colour. 

 Fore wing white, with the costa fawn-coloured; some obscure 

 brownish suffusion in cell and on median nervure ; a curved yellow 

 fascia from inner margin near base to near outer angle, where it is 

 joined by a triangular fulvous patch from costa beyond middle with 

 dark sinuous edges arid a dark-edged fulvous submarginal band ; 

 a marginal yellow band defined by fine black lines. Hind wing 

 white; a dark-edged yellow patch on inner area near base; a 

 broad curved dark-edged yellow postmedial band, diffused outwards 

 to the margin below apex ; a marginal yellow band defined by fine 

 black lines and with three white-centred black spots on it between 

 veins 5 and 2. 



Hob. Dharmsala; Sikhim; Java; Celebes. Exp. 28-36 millim. 



B. Hind femora of male with a thick tuft of short hair near 

 extremity. 



a. Fore wing with a slight costal fringe of hair on upperside ; a thick 

 ridge of large scales from base through the cell, widening toivards 

 end of it. 



4686. Aulacodes hamalis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xix, p. 199, pi. 8,. 



fig. 4a-c ; C.$S. no. 4410. 

 Cataclysta ochripicta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 209 ; C. fy S. no. 4423. 



Differs from plicatalis in the markings being more orange and 

 much more extensive. Tore wing with the postmedial triangular 

 mark shorter and ending above the fascia on inner area, which has 

 no dark edges. Hind wing with the medial white area very much 

 reduced, the postmedial band with dark inner edge in specimens 

 from the N.W. Himalayas, without dark edge in specimens from 

 Sikhim and the Nilgiris ; the marginal band with two black spots, 

 the lower spot in Nilgiri specimens without a white centre. 



Hob. N.W. Himalayas; Sikhira ; Nilgiris. Exp. 22-26 millim. 



4687. Aulacodes melanops, n. sp. 



<$ . Orange. Fore wing with a small tuft of black hair at base ;. 

 an S-shaped dark line beyond cell from below costa to vein 2, with 

 a triangular whitish patch on its outer edge ; a submarginal white 

 baud from below r costa ending in a point on vein 2, defined by 



