234 PYRALIDjE. 



it to inner margin. Hind wing with sinuous white postmedial 

 line ; cilia of both wings chequered black and white. 



The forms wnicalis and obliterata have the white marks on the 

 cilia much reduced; the former has the triangular white patch 

 small, the latter reduced to a spot. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Nilgiris; Suinbawa; Amboina. Exp. 18 millim. 



4733. Diathrausta picata, Butl. III. Het. vii, p. 94, pi. 134, fig. 17. 



Differs from profundalis in the fore wing having a white spot in 

 end of cell ; the postmedial white patch on costa with its edges 

 sinuous and outlined with white. Hind wing with white spot in 

 cell; a dark discocellular lunule ; a large subquadrate white patch 

 beyond the cell, with the postmedial white line bent outwards 

 beyond it. 



Hob. Dharmsala. Exp. 18 millim. 



Genus STENIA. 



Sterna, Guen. Dup. Cat. Meth. p. 201 (1844). 

 Arnia, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 240 (1854). 

 Amaurophanes, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 422. 

 Symmoracma, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 469. 



Type, S. punctalis, Schiff. 



Range. Neotropical, Palsearctic, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions. 



Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by hair ; 

 maxillary palpi dilated at extremity ; frons rounded ; antennae as 

 long as fore wing and annulated ; legs long and slender, the outer 

 spurs half the length of inner ; abdomen long. Fore wing long 

 and narrow ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle 

 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9, 10. Hind wing narrow 

 the cell about half the length of wing; vein 3 from before angle 

 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



4734. Stenia punctalis, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 123. 



Asopia eetnsealis, Dup. Lep. Fr. viii, p. 199, pi. 223, fig. 4. 

 Margaritia longipedalis, Curt. Brit. Ent. vi, pi. 312. 



Fuscous brown, usually with a rufous tinge ; palpi white below ; 

 .abdomen ringed with white. Fore wing with obliquely sinuous 

 antemedial dark line ; a white discocellular lunule ; a postmedial 

 line bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below 

 ^nd of cell. Hind wing with obscure sinuous postmedial line. 



Hob. Europe ; Armenia ; Dharmsala. Exp. 22 millim. 



4735. Stenia spodinopa, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 469. 

 Stenia profanalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, pi. 174, fig. 22 (nee Wlk.}. 



Black-brown. Fore wing with obscure antemedial line ; a 

 pale speck on vein 2 below middle of cell ; a pale discocellular 

 lunule; a minutely dentate pale-edged postmedial line bent outwards 



