PYEAUSTA. 439 



postmedial fuscous line highly excurved from vein 6 to 2, then bent 

 inwards; a marginal fuscous band widest at apex. Hind wing 

 with obscure fuscous spot at lower angle of cell ; a postmedial 

 dentate line highly excurved from vein 5 to 2 ; a more or less 

 prominent marginal band, obsolete in the Syrian and nearly so 

 in the Aden specimens. 



Hob. Syria ; Aden ; Congo ; S. Africa ; throughout India ; 

 Java ; Celebes ; Australia. Exp. 30 imllirn. 



5255. Pyrausta ciniferalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1417. 



Hapalia concolor, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 339, pi. 181, fig. 3 ; 

 C. fyS.no. 4085. 



tf . Uniform grey ; head and collar bright fulvous ; palpi white 

 below. Underside whitish. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Tenasserim ; Borneo. Exp. 36 millim. 



b'. (Crypsiptya). Thorax of male with large fan of scales 

 at base of fore wing below. 



5256. Pyrausta ceadesalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 639. 



Botys deductalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 659 : Hmpsn. Ill Set. ix, 



pi. 172, fig. 16 ; C. 8? S. no. 4086. 

 Botys nereidalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, pp. 371, 465, pi. 9, 



fig. 7. 

 Botys ausonialis, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 578. 



c? . Uniform grey ; head and collar with a slight fulvous tinge ; 

 palpi white below. Fore wing with indistinct dark spot in cell 

 and another on discocellulars ; traces of a curved postmedial line. 

 Hind wing with more prominent curved postmedial line. Under- 

 side whiter. 



Hah. Africa ; Sikhim ; Ceylon ; Pulo Laut ; New G-uinea. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



b. Fore wing of male with a glandular lobe on costa at two-thirds 

 from base ; a hyaline fovea in end of cell ; vein 7 from well 

 below upper angle of cell, 6 from below middle of discocellulars, the 

 base of each curved downwards and with elongate foveas above 

 them. 



5257. Pyrausta foviferalis, n. sp. 



c? . Differs from incoloralis in the lines of fore wing being better 

 defined and with a rufous tinge ; the postmedial line nearly straight 

 from costa to vein 4, then sharply retracted almost to lower angle 

 of cell and waved to inner margin. Hind wing with the line 

 nearly straight from costa to vein 2. 



Hab. Thayetmyo, Burma ( Watson). Exp. 26 millim. Type in 

 B. M. 



