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-submarginal band and marginal series of spots. Hind wing with 

 cell-speck ; a postmedial band incurved below vein 4 ; a submarginal 

 dentate band and marginal series of spots ; both wings with the 

 cilia ferruginous. 



Hob. Sind. Exp. 20 millim. 



SECT. II. Hind tibiae of male with the outer medial and distal 

 spurs minute. 



5171. Phlyctaenodes palealis, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 123. 

 PhaUena flaveolata, Rott. Naturf. xi, p. 80. 



Pyralis selenalis, Hiibn. Samml eur. Sckmett., Pyr. fi?. 177. 

 Botys anaxisalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 658 ; C. fy S. no. 4043. 



Pale sulphur-yellow; palpi black; abdomen white at base. 

 Fore wing with the costa black. Hind wing white, with an 

 Indistinct postmedial blackish band from costa to vein 2, 

 prominent on underside ; a more or less developed apical black 

 patch. Underside of fore wing white, with the veins and costal area 

 black ; a postmedial black band and apical patch. 



Hob. Europe ; Syria ; Japan ; China ; N.W. Himalayas. 

 Exp. 30-36 millim. 



5172. Phlyctsenodes verticalis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 882. 

 Pyralis limbalis, Schrank, Fauna Boica, ii, 2, p. 64. 

 Botys cinctalis, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vii, p. 97. 



Pale yellow ; head, thorax, and abdomen variegated with fuscous ; 

 palpi white below. Fore wing with the veins dark ; an oblique 

 sinuous anteniedial line ; an annulus in cell and discocellular ovate 

 mark ; a minutely dentate postmedial line straight from costa to 

 vein 2, along which it is retracted to below angle of cell ; a minutely 

 dentate somewhat diffused submarginal line ; the costa and margin 

 often blackish. Hind wing with dark postmedial line slightly 

 retracted at vein 2 ; a more or less developed submarginal sinuous 

 line, sometimes diffused over the whole apical area ; a dark marginal 

 line. Underside with the veins and all the markings prominently 

 .dark. 



Hob. Europe ; Japan ; Afghanistan ; N.W. Himalayas ; Khasis. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



5173. Phlyctaenodes brevivittalis, n. sp. 



c? . Pale yellowish brown ; palpi fulvous, white below ; abdomen 

 with fuscous dorsal bands on 2nd and 3rd segments, the next four 

 ringed with black. Fore wing with indistinct dark anteniedial 

 line, curved from costa to median nervure, then outwardly oblique 

 and developed into a very prominent inwardly-oblique black band 

 from middle of interno- median interspace to inner margin ; both 

 wings with oblique minutely dentate indistinct postmedial line 

 .ending at vein 2 of hind wing ; the marginal area suffused with 

 fuscous ; the cilia bright yellow. 



Hab. JSTagas (Doherty). Exp. 30 millim. Type in coll. Elwes*. 



