432 PYBALID^E. 



line at inner margin ; a diffused crimson submarginal band and 

 marginal line. Hind wing with oblique line from costa beyond 

 middle to outer margin above anal angle, the area inside it more or 

 less suffused with fuscous ; the apical area more or less suffused 

 with dull crimson or fuscous, narrowing to vein 2. 



Hob. N. and S. America ; W. Indies ; Africa ; China ; Sikhim ; 

 Bombay Presidency ; ]S T ilgiris ; Australia. Exp. 20 millim. 



5228. Pyrausta rubritinctalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 471. 

 Syllythria metallica, Warr. A. M. N. IL (6) xviii, p. 107. 



<3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange suffused with crimson ; 

 palpi white at base. Fore wing orange thickly irro rated with 

 purplish crimson ; traces of a curved antemedial line ; a disco- 

 cellular spot ; a highly waved submarginal line ; a crimson mar- 

 ginal band. Hind wing pale yellow. 

 hab. Khasis. Exp. 18 millim. 



5229. Pyrausta sanguinalis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 882. 

 Pyralis hsematalis, Hilbn. Samml. eur. Schmett.j Pyr. fig. 178. 

 Pyralis auroralis, Zell. Isis, 1847, p. 647. 



Pyralis virginalis, Dup. Lep. Fr. viii, p. 216, pi. 224, fig. 3. 



Bright straw-yellow ; patagia tinged with crimson. Fore wing 

 with a crimson fascia on costa from base to beyond middle ; a 

 medial crimson band wide from costa to median nervure, then 

 narrow and usually leaving a yellow discocellular spot ; a broad 

 oblique submarginal crimson band. Hind wing pale yellow, with 

 diffused fuscous submarginal band. 



The above is the form hcematalis, of which a specimen was taken 

 at Simla by Major Harford. 



The forms sanguinalis, auroralis, and virginalis from Europe 

 have the hind wing dark, the crimson bands broad, and the whole 

 outer area usually crimson ; in the last two forms the bands are 

 especially wide, in virginalis the yellow on postmedial area is 

 reduced to a line. 



Hab. Europe ; Syria ; Simla ; Kulu. Exp. 20-22 millim. 



5230. Pyrausta cruoralis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvi, p. 471. 



<3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen orange suffused with purplish 

 crimson ; palpi fulvous, white below ; wings purplish crimson. 

 Fore wing with some fuscous suffusion in cell and on outer area ; 

 the outer half of costa orange ; a postmedial orange band ex- 

 panding beyond lower angle of cell and on inner side below the cell. 

 Hind wing with postmedial orange band broad from costa to lower 

 angle of cell ; mid tibia3 white on outer side. 



Hab. Khasis. Exp. 18 millim. 



5231. Pyrausta machceralis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 1013: C. & S. no. 



4162. 



Scopula damastesalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 1013 ; Hm/wi. 111. ILt. i.\. 

 pi. 173, figs. 1,8; Cotes, Indian Museum Notes, iii, p. 94 (larva) ; 

 C. $ S. no. 4147. 



