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vein 6 to 4 and followed by irregular patches of dark suffusion ; a 

 pale marginal band and series of black specks. Hind wing black, 

 with orange medial patch on costa ; orange postmedial and mar- 

 ginal bands varying in width, the former with the outer, the latter 

 with both edges waved ; cilia of both wings fuscous. Underside 

 orange, with black spot in cell of fore wing and at end of cell of 

 both wings ; an irregularly curved postmedial line and diffused 

 submarginal band ; the marginal area tinged with rufous. The 

 fore wing may be entirely suffused with grey, rufous, or fuscous. 



Hcib. Europe; Syria; Siberia; Afghanistan; Punjab; Dharmsala; 

 Bernardmyo, Burma. Exp. 18-22 miUim. 



5225. Pyrausta canotinctalis, n. sp. 



J . Head and thorax sparsely clothed with brown hair, abdomen 

 with grey hair, the anal tuft white. Fore wing yellowish grey, with 

 a brown costal fascia : a brown patch on base of inner margin ; an 

 antemedial ill-defined brown band conjoined below cell to an 

 oblique sinuous postmedial band ; an oblique brown submarginal 

 band expanding into a patch on inner margin ; cilia tipped with 

 grey. Hind wing fuscous, with diffused grey postmedial band and 

 marginal grey line ; the cilia white. Underside of fore wing 

 fuscous ; the marginal area white ; hind wing white. 



2 with the ground-colour of fore wing much yellower and 

 brighter. 



Hob. Palhousie (Harford) ; Kulu (Graham Young}. Eocp., J 36, 

 2 28 millim. Type in B. M. 



5226. Pyrausta aerealis, Hilbn. Samml eur. Schmett., Pyr. fig. 44. 

 Pyralis opacalis, Hilbn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. fig. 170. 

 Scopulata suffusalis, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vii, p. 68. 



Differs from canotinctalis in being more uniform brown. Fore 

 wing with slight fuscous irroration ; a dark discocellular speck and 

 the pale waved postmedial band present. Hind wing brown, with 

 traces of postmedial dark line and a pale patch beyond it at lower 

 angle of cell. 



Hob. Europe ; Kashmir. Exp. 32 millim. 



5227. Pyrausta phcenicealis, Hilbn. Zutr. i,p. 22, figs. 115, 116. 

 Rhodaria flegialis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 316. 



Khodaria panopealis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 318. 



Botys coecilialis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 581. 



Rhodaria ocellusalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 923. 



Rhodaria noraxalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 926. 



Rhodaria catenalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1282. 



Rhodaria juncturalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1283 ; C. $ S. no. 4354. 



Rhodaria concatenalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1284 ; C.fyS. no. 4353. 



Myriostephes heliainma, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1885, p. 448. 



Orange-yellow. Fore wing more or less suffused with dull 



crimson; an outwardly- oblique sinuous antemedial line; a sinuous 



postmedial line highly excurved between veins 6 and 2, with a 



broad band of crimson suffusion inside it joining the antemedial 



