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THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[NINTH SERIES.] 

 No. 9. SEPTEMBER 1918. 



XIX. — Descriptions of Neiv Pyralidse of the Bub family 

 Pyraustinse. By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S., 

 &c. 



[Continued from vol. i. p. 280.] 



(3) Megastes erytlirostolalis, sp. n. 



2 . Head yellow suffused with red ; thorax and abdomen pale 

 red with a crimson tinge or sometimes with a red-brown tinge ; 

 palpi white at base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 silvery white. Fore wing pale red with a crimson tinge, more or 

 less strongly suffused with silvery grey, the costa yellow from 

 before the antemedial line to the postmedial line ; antemedial line 

 hardly traceable except at costa, red, oblique to discal fold and 

 with slight yellowish-white spots on its outer side in upper part of 

 cell, below the cell, and above inner margin ; a bar-shaped yel- 

 lowish white spot in end of cell with its lower extremity rather 

 angled inwards and a large lunulate spot below end of cell, both 

 defined by crimson-red ; postmedial line formed by slight brown 

 lunules tinged with red, oblique to vein 6 and slightly incurved 

 at discal fold, a small yellow spot beyond it above vein 7 and 

 larger white spot above vein 6, then defined on each side by slight 

 yellow marks to vein 2 ; the terminal area j-ellow irro rated with 

 red, its inner edge waved ; a brown terminal line ; cilia yellowish 

 white. Hind wing pale red with a crimson tinge and more or less 

 suffused with leaden grey especially just beyond the postmedial 

 line ; a large yellowisli white patch bej'ond the cell before the 

 postmedial line narrowing to a point at vein 1, defined on inner 

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