PYRATJSTA. 441 



with fulvous from costa to vein 2 ; both wings with marginal dark 

 line and line through the cilia. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis ; Nagas ; Ceylon ; Tenasserim. Exp. 

 24 millim. 



5262. Pyrausta coclesalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 701. 



Botys itemalesalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 996 ; C. $ S. no. 4061. 

 Botys strenualis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1409 ; C. $ S. no. 4075. 

 Botys interfusalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1443. 

 Botys lentalis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 135, fig. 44 ; C. $ S. no. 4063. 



Ochreous brown ; palpi fulvous, white below. Fore wing with 



the veins and costal and outer 

 areas darkest ; an obliquely 

 waved antemedial line ; a dark 

 discocellular speck ; a post- 

 medial dark line highly ex- 

 curved from vein 5 to 2, 



where it is much bent in- 

 Fig. W.-Pyrausta, coclesahs, 3 . }. ^^ -^ wing ^ . ^ 



outer area dark ; a postmedial line highly excurved from vein 5 to 2, 

 then incurved. 



Larva feeds on bamboo. 



Hob. China ; Formosa ; throughout India and Burma ; Borneo ; 

 Java ; Sumbawa. Exp., S 28, 30 millim. 



5263. Pyrausta acutidentalis, n. sp. 



$ . Ochreous suffused with brown ; palpi fulvous, white below. 

 Fore wing with indistinct outwardly oblique antemedial line ; 

 traces of a dark spot in cell and line on discocellulars ; a dark 

 postmedial line with an ochreous band on its outer edge, straight 

 from costa to vein 3, then highly dentate and bent inwards at 

 vein 2. Hind wing with minutely dentate postmedial line running 

 obliquely from the costa to outer margin at vein 2 and with an 

 ochreous band on its outer edge. 



Hob. Sikhim (Dudgeon}. Exp. 32 millim. Type in B. M. 



5264. Pyrausta bambusalis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 222; C. $ S. 



no. 4084. 



c? . Ochreous ; palpi fulvous ; white below. Fore wing with the 

 costa tinged with fulvous ; an oblique sinuous antemedial fuscous 

 line ; a speck in cell and discocellular lunule ; a postmedial line 

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

 then bent out again; a submarginal series of dentate fuscous 

 marks diminishing to outer angle. Hind wing with postmedial 

 line outwardly oblique from costa to vein 2, then retracted to cell 

 and obsolescent ; a submarginal series of dentate marks diminishing 

 to and terminating at vein 2. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 38 millim. 



