PYRAUSTA. 435 



5240. Pyrausta purpurascens, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. 162, pi. 172, 



fig. 14. 



c? . Differs from tinctalis in the fore wing being darker and 

 much more suffused with purple ; an ochreous patch on the inner 

 edge of the postmedial line on inner area ; some dentate ochreous 

 marks beyond the postmedial line and patch on inner area. Hind 

 wing ochreous to the postmedial line, which is indistinct and has 

 some dentate marks on its outer edge ; no spot at lower angle of 

 cell. Both wings with marginal series of ochreous spots. 

 Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 30 millim. 



5241. Pyrausta benenotata, Sicinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 142. 



Fuscous suffused with purple ; palpi and thorax white below ; 

 legs white ringed with black ; abdomen of male with a white 

 dorsal spot at extremity. Pore wing with waved black antemedial 

 line angled below the cell ; a black spot in cell and lunule on 

 discocellulars ; a prominent postmedial black line minutely dentate 

 from costa to vein 2, along which it is sharply retracted nearly to 

 the cell, then dentate and thicker to inner margin. Hind wing 

 with black cell-spot ; a postmedial line excurved from vein 5 to 2, 

 along which it is sharply retracted, then straight to anal angle. 

 Both wings with prominent white maculate line at base of cilia. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 28 millim. 



5242. Pyrausta nigrescens, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 221 ; C. $ S. no. 4099. 



. Fuscous with a slight purplish tinge ; palpi white below. 

 Fore wing with the costa orange-yellow from before middle to 

 apex ; an indistinct outwardly oblique curved antemedial line ; a 

 discocellular lunule ; an indistinct dark postmedial line, bent out- 

 wards between veins 6 and 3, then inwards to below end of cell ; 

 cilia golden yellow. Hind wing with faint traces of postmedial 

 line ; the cilia golden yellow from costa to vein 2. 



Hob. Sikhim. Exp. 30 millim. 



5243. Pyrausta nubilalis, Hubn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. fig. 94 ; 



C. # S. no. 4068. 



Pyralis silacealis, Hilbn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. fig. 116. 

 Pyralis glabralis, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 380. 

 Botys zealis, Own. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 332 ; C # 8. no. 4106. 

 Hapalia kasmirica, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 222, pi. 7, fig. 28 ; C. 8f S. 



no. 4097. 

 Hapalia lupulina, Butl. III. Set. vii, p. 19 (nee Clerck}. 



<3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown ; palpi white below ; 

 abdomen slightly ringed with white. Fore wing ochreous, almost 

 entirely suffused with fuscous and dark rufous ; a highly sinuous 

 oblique antemedial line with ochreous on its inner edge ; a dark 

 spot in cell and lunule on discocellulars, usually with an ochreous 

 patch between them; a dentate postmedial line with dentate 

 ochreous band beyond it ; a series of ochreous streaks on the veins 



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