On new Pyralidae of tJie Subfamily Pjralina;. G5 



latter broadly rcflexecJ, the front margin very gently excised, 

 and a row ol'stiff bristles traversing tiie middle from side to side. 

 Tlie eyes are ratlier small and far apart. The lateral margins 

 of the prolliorax are dislincily siiiuated in their |)osleiior half, 

 the hind angles a little produced and acute and the bise 

 impressed on each side. The elytra are sulcate and the sulci 

 contain rather coarse but shallow punctures. 



The genus is apparently related to Teraserica, which I 

 do not know, and which has been described from the male 

 alone, the antenna of which has the last four joints rather 

 long but much less elougate than in the present insect. This 

 has not the foreiiead narrow and the eyes very hirge and 

 prominent, as in Tenifserica. Tne strongly bisiniiated sides 

 ot the prothorax and acutely produced hind angles are very 

 characteristic, and another [)eculiarity wdiich, so far as I know, 

 is not found elsewhere is in the sha[)e of the elytra. These 

 are separately rounded at their hinder margins, with tiie 

 sutural angles extremely blunt, so that a wide angle is formed 

 and a considerable part of tlie abdomen ex|)osed. The 

 peculiar apptarance, however, is chiefly due to the fact that 

 this part ot" the elj'tra is strongly depressed along the suture. 



IV. — Descriptions of New Pyralidce of the Suhfamilies 

 Epipaschianse, Chrysauginse, Endotrichinsej and Pyralinae. 

 By Sir George F. Hampson, Bart,, F.Z.S., &c. 



[Concluded from vol. xviii. p. 373.] 



(2 6) Pj/ralis nigrlcillalis, sp. n. 



(5 . Head and thorax creamy white tinged with purplish red, 

 especially the tegulst' ; antennaj purplish red ; abdomen creamy 

 white mixed with purplish red and dorsally banded with black 

 except at base and extremity. Fore Aving creamy white mixed 

 with purplish red, the basal area suffused with black except at 

 base of inner margin, the costa black, rather diffused towards 

 apex ; antemedial line defining the black area, creamy white 

 slightly defined on outer side by purplish-red and black scales, 

 excurved below costa ; the medial part of costa with thi-ee Avhite 

 points ; a round white spot defined by purplish red at ujoper angle 

 of cell, another below the lower angle conjoined to a patch of 

 confluent annuli beyond the lower angle, and another annulus 

 on vein 1 ; postmedial line white defined on each side by purplish 

 red, oblique to discal fold, then slightly waved ; ciha black mixed 



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