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angle of cell ; the cilia fuscous at base, pure white at tips. Hind 

 wing dull straw-colour. 



Hob. Dharmsala. Exp. 30 millim. 



B. Antennce of male with a tuft of hair on inner side of basal joint, 

 the base of shaft excised, flattened, and contorted. 



5269. Pyrausta torridalis, n. sp. 



c? . Eufous brown suffused with fuscous, except the outer third 

 of wings. Fore wing with indistinct waved antemedial line; 

 diffused blackish discal patch ; a minutely waved postmedial line 

 excurved from costa to vein 2, then retracted to below angle 

 of cell and bent outwards again in interno-median interspace. 

 Hind wing with minutely waved postmedial line, excurved from 

 costa to vein 2, then obsolete ; cilia blackish from apex of fore 

 wing to vein 2 of hind wing. 



Hab. Nagas (Dolierty}. Exp. 28 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



C. (G-yptitia). Antennce of male with a small tooth on inner side of 

 3rd joint ; hind wing with the bases of vein 1 c and median 

 nervure fringed with Jong hair on underside. 



5270. Pyrausta ochracealis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1446. 



Gyptitia gonialis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxvi, p. 138, pi. 8, fig. 9 a, b. 

 Hapalia denticulosa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 337, pi. 183, fig. 8 ; 

 C. $ S. no. 4087. 



Bright orange ; palpi white below. Fore wing with indistinct 

 oblique antemedial line slightly angled below the cell; a dark 

 speck in the cell and elongate discocellular annulus ; a sinuous 

 postmedial line much bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, along 

 which it is recurved to the angle of cell ; a diffused fuscous sub- 

 marginal dentate band bent outwards between veins 5 and 2. 

 Hind wing with renif orm discocellular mark ; a postmedial line 

 much bent outwards between veins 5 and 3 ; an apical fuscous 

 patch, from which arises a diffused dentate submarginal line bent 

 outwards between veins 5 and 2 ; both wings with a series of dark 

 specks just inside the margin ; the cilia pale fuscous, with a dark 

 line through them. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Nagas ; Burma ; Java ; Celebes, Eocp. 28 millim. 



Genus TEGOSTOMA. 



Tegostoma, Zell Isis, 1847, p. 581. 

 Emprepes, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 360. 

 ^Eschremon, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 362. 



Type, T. comparale, Hiibn. 



Range. Neotropical, ISTearctic, and Palsearctic regions; S. Africa ; 

 Afghanistan; N.W. Himalayas; North-western, Western, and 

 Southern India. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint slightly fringed with hair below,. 



