Pyralide of the Subfamily Epipaschiane. 147 
cilia. Underside ochreous tinged with flesh-colour, the terminal 
areas suffused with red-brown. 
Hab. Br. N. Guryea, Dinawa (Pratt),2 5,19 type. Exp. 
26 mm. 
(126) Stericta trichasema, sp. n. 
9. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous, the vertex of head 
with minute black spot, the thorax irrorated with sume blackish 
scales and the abdomen more strongly irrorated with black ; palpi 
black at base and tips; fore tibie and the fore and mid tarsi 
blackish, the tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing rufous mixed 
with some whitish and irrorated with black, the streaks of hair 
black and white; a slight black spot below base of cell and a 
narrow subbasal band formed by black scales; a rather oblique 
medial line formed by black scales; postmedial line slight, blackish, 
dentate, defined on outer side by white between veins 5 and 2, 
a small black spot beyond it above vein 6; a terminal series of 
small black spots. Hind wing rufous mixed with some whitish 
and irrorated with black; a blackish bar from lower angle of cell 
to submedian fold; postmedial line blackish, oblique to vein 4, 
then dentate, an oblique blackish shade beyond it from costa to 
discal fold ; a terminal series of small black spots except towards 
tornus. Underside whitish suffused with rufous; fore wing with 
diffused dark postmedial line, excurved and dentate below discal 
fold, the terminal area suffused with dark brown except towards 
tornus ; hind wing with postmedial line oblique and blackish to 
vein 5, then reddish and slightly waved ; a black terminal line from 
below apex to vein 3. 
Hab. Crxton, Kitulgala (Mackwood), 1 ¢ type. Exp. 32 mm. 
(14a) Stericta melanochlora, sp. n. 
Q. Head and tegule whitish tinged with red-brown; thorax 
black-brown ; abdomen pale rufous, the sides and ventral surface 
suifused with black; palpi irrorated with blackish; fore legs 
blackish, the pectus and mid and hind legs rufous, the tarsi 
blackish ringed with white. Fore wing black-brown, the medial 
area with pale grey-green mixed, the terminal area pale grey-green, 
the streaks of hair-like scales black ; a faint sinuous whitish ante- 
medial line ; a white discoidal bar with tuft of black scales before 
it; a slight waved postmedial line formed by white scales, excurved 
at middle and with a series of small black spots formed by hair- 
like scales beyond it. Hind wing black-brown, the terminal area 
pale grey-green, the streak of hair-like scales below the cell black 
and the one beyond the cell black and white; a slight curved, 
waved, postmedial line formed by white scales with a series of small 
dentate black spots beyond it formed by hair-like scales. Under- 
side pale green suffused with black-brown to just beyond the 
distinct dentate white postmedial line. 
Hab. Stncavore (Ridley, Wood-Jones), 2 Q type. Exp. 
26 mm. 
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