442 



5265. Pyrausta fraudulentalis, Warr. A.M.N.H. (6) xvi, p. 474. 

 cJ. Eufous with a slight purplish tinge; palpi white below; 



abdomen ringed with white, the anal tuft tipped with white ; wings 

 with a broad yellow postmedial band from below costa of fore wing 

 to outer margin of hind wing above anal angle ; cilia fulvous yellow ; 

 inner area of hind wing yellowish. 

 Hob. Khasis. Exp. 30 millim. 



5266. Pyrausta diniasalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 649. 



Bright yellow ; palpi fulvous, white below ; male with the anal 

 tuft black. Fore wing with traces of a dark subbasal line; an 

 antemedial line across the cell ; a speck at middle of cell, with an 

 oblique line below it from median nervure to inner margin; a 

 fuscous reniform discocellular spot with white lunule on it ; a 

 waved fuscous postmedial line, strongly bent outwards between 

 veins 5 and 3 ; a waved submarginal line, bent inwards below 

 vein 3 and with the area beyond it rufous except at apex. Hind 

 wing with a dark discocellular spot; a waved postmedial line, 

 strongly bent outwards between veins 5 and 3 ; a waved sub- 

 marginal line, with the area beyond it tinged with rufous ; a series 

 of dark marginal striae ; both wings with a fuscous line at base of 

 cilia, which are pure white at tips. 



Hob. Shanghai ; Dharmsala. Exp. 34 millim. 



b. Male with thick tufts of fawn-coloured hair from base of fore coxce 

 and of white hair from the end of the coxce ; mid legs with large 

 tufts of long black and white spatulate hair from the coxce, and 

 the tibice clothed with rough hair. 



5267. Pyransta bambucivora, Moore. Lep. Atk. p. 224; C. & S. 



no. 4129. 

 Nascia arenalis, Hmpm. Itt. Het. ix, p. 163, pi. 173, fig. 29. 



cJ . Flesh-colour tinted with yellow ; palpi white below ; frons 

 white at sides. Fore wing with the veins slightly redder ; the 

 basal half of costa white ; a faint dark speck at lower angle of 

 cell ; the cilia fuscous. Hind wing straw-colour, with the apex 

 tinged with fuscous. 



The typical specimen from Jubbulpore has the costal area of 

 fore wing on upper and under sides suffused with fuscous, most 

 prominently from cell to outer margin. 



Larva green, turning red before pupating; lives in rolled-up 

 leaves of bamboo. 



Hob. Khasis ; Jubbulpore ; Ceylon. Exp. 32 millim. 



5268. Pyrausta citrinalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) ix, p. 302. 

 Hapalia lutealis, Butl. Ill Het. vii, p. 19 (nee Dup.). 



^ $ . Bright yellow ; palpi white below ; frons white. Fore wing 

 with the apex very acute ; a slightly deeper yellow mark at lower 



