430 PYRALIDjE. 



below costa to vein 2, tapering to its lower end. Underside with 

 the bands continued indistinctly to inner margin of each wing ; 

 fore wing with the outer area suffused with yellow ; hind wing with 

 the apex suffused with yellow ; a marginal series of orange spots. 

 Hob. Bernardmyo, Burma (Dolierty}. Exp. 20 millim. Type 

 in coll. Elwes. 



5222. Pyrausta sikhima, Moore, Lep. Aik. p. 207; C. 8? S. no. 4361. 

 Porphyritis maculata, Bull III. Ret. vii, p. 93, pi. 134, fig. 16. 



Black-brown; abdomen ringed with orange. Fore wing with 

 some orange hair on basal area ; an orange antemedial band from 

 cell to above inner margin ; a postmedial orange band composed of 

 a large spot on disk conjoined to a small spot on inner area and 

 speck below costa. Hind wing with medial orange band not 

 reaching the costa and narrowing from cell to inner margin. 

 Underside of fore wing with the basal area orange ; a postmedial 

 orange band conjoined to a fascia on inner area ; hind wing with 

 sub basal and medial orange bands. 



Hob. Dharmsala; Sikhim; Nagas; Andamans. Exp. 16 millim. 



5223. Pyrausta nstalis, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 138, pi. 155, fig. 7. 



Eed-brown suffused with fuscous ; head and collar blackish ; 

 palpi white below. Fore wing with the basal costal area blackish ; 

 an obscure antemedial dark line; annuli in cell and on disco- 

 ^cellulars. Hind wing with discocellular band ; both wings with 

 minutely dentate postmedial line bent outwards between veins 5 

 and 2, then retracted to below angle of cell ; a marginal series of 

 black specks. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Exp. 26 millim. 



B. Mid tibice smoothly scaled. 

 a. Fore wing of male without foveas in and beyond end of cell. 



a'. Thorax of male without large fan of scales at origin 

 of fore wing below. 



5224. Pyransta cespitalis, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 123 ; a $ S. no. 



4363. 



Pyralis zonana, J. C. Schdff. Icon. Ins. pi. 262, figs. 4, 5. 

 Tinea vestianella, Clerck, Icon. Ins. pi. 11, fig. 11. 

 Pyralis sordidalis, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. pi. 7, fig. 40. 

 Pirausta intermedialis, Dup. Ltp. Fr. viii, p. 350, pi. 234, figs. 1, 2. 

 Phalsena despicata, Scop. JEnt. Cam. no. 579, p. 231. 

 Herbula picarialis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1287. 

 Botys tendinosalis, Srem. Lep. Ost-Sib. p. 99, pi. 8, fig. 10. 



Head and thorax rufous irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen 

 fuscous ringed with white. Fore wing rufous, irrorated with 

 fuscous and slightly suffused with grey ; an irregular grey ante- 

 medial line dentate on median nervure ; the orbicular and reniform 

 with dark outline and often with a pale patch between them ; a 

 postmedial series of dark specks on a pale band excurved from 



