438 



5251. Pyrausta indistans, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 223 ; C. # S. no. 4094. 



Straw-colour suffused with brown ; palpi fulvous, white below. 

 Fore wing with indistinct antemedial line slightly dentate on 

 vein 1 ; a dark spot in cell and discocellular line, with quadrate 

 ochreous patch between them ; a minutely dentate postmedial line 

 highly excurved from vein 6 to 2, where it is much bent inwards ; 

 traces of a waved submarginal line. Hind wing with dark cell- 

 spot ; a minutely dentate postmedial line incurved at vein 2 and 

 on an ochreous band which extends from vein 5 to anal angle ; a 

 dentate submarginal line. 



Hab. Dharmsala ; Sikhim. Exp. 32 millim. 



5252. Pyrausta signatalis, Wlk. Cat, xxxiv, p. 1444 ; C. $ S. no. 4103. 



Bright straw-yellow ; head and collar fulvous ; palpi white 

 below. Fore wing with a fuscous streak below basal two-thirds 

 of costa ; a subbasal line from below median nervure to inner 

 margin ; a sinuous antemedial line ; a dark-edged white spot in 

 cell and larger spot on discocellulars. Hind wing with a small 

 dark-edged white discocellular spot. Both wings with a sinuous 

 postmedial line bent outwards between veins 5 and 3, then re- 

 curved almost to origin of vein 2 ; a marginal fuscous grey-suffused 

 band with waved inner edge bent outwards between veins 5 and 

 3 of each wing. 



The Ceylon form is much more fulvous yellow. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Java. Exp., <$ 24, 

 $ 28 millini. 



5253. Pyrausta punctimarginalis, n. sp. 



c? . Pale yellow ; palpi white below at base. Fore wing with 

 the base of costa slightly tinged with fulvous ; an obliquely curved 

 antemedial line ; both wings with dark discocellular lunule ; the 

 postmedial line bent outwards and minutely dentate between veins 

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

 of short striae and a fine line through the cilia. 



Hab. Sikhim (Holler)-, Celebes. Exp. 26 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



5254. Pyrausta inccloralis, Guen. Delt. $ Pur. p. 332; C. $ S. 



no. 4059. 



Botya melonalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 702 ; C. # S. no. 4144. 

 Spilodes nitetisalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 773. 

 Botys albidalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1411 ; C. & S. no. 4042. 

 Botys ruficostalis, Led. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 217, 



pi. 3, tig. 4. 



Yellowish white ; head and collar bright fulvous ; palpi white 

 below. Fore wing with the basal half of costa bright fulvous ; an 

 indistinct outwardly oblique antemedial fuscous line; a fulvous 

 speck in cell and luimle on discocellulars ; a somewhat maculate 



