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PYRALIDiE. 



PYRALIS, Linn. 



Pyralis marmorea. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 10.) 



Allied to P. /«;•/// (///,v : primaries witli the basal fourth black, with a pah-r basal spot; 

 outer edge of basal area slightly sinuous, bordered with white, which forms the inner boundary 

 of the centi-al belt, the latter occupying rather more than the central half of the wing, whitish, 

 its outer half irregularly suffused with dull sienna-brown and speckled with black; a more or 

 less pronounced black crescent in the cell ; outer border of central belt w bite, arched and den- 

 ticulated ; costa between the two white borders narrowly black spotted with white; external 

 area blackish internally, whity brown with a submarginal series of blackish spots outwardly ; 

 fringe with two smoky-brown stripes : secondaries silvery brownish white, with pale brown 

 lunules towards outer margin and a marginal series of blackish-brown lunnles ; fringe traversed 

 by a smokj'-brown stripe, and with traces of a second stripe towards anal angle : head, collar, 

 and prothorax reddish brown, speckled with purplish black ; remainder of body greyish white, 

 the abdomen broadly barred with black and with red-brownish anal segment. Under surface 

 silvery whitish, the markings indistinct, grey discocellnlar spots; blackish marginal spots: 

 primaries with the basal three fourths of costa black-spotted : body below silvery greyish, the 

 tarsi and the anterior tibite above black barred with whitish. Expanse of wings 28 millim. 



Dharrasala. 



A common species, breeding in skins &c. in the house : it is very distinct from any of the 

 allied forms of the P. far'uiaUs group: from P. e/onf/aHs', Kollar, it differs in the much darker 

 and duller colouring of the upper surface and the whitish under surface of its wings. 



Pyralis fumipennis. (PlateCXXXIV.fig.il.) 



Coloration of primaries similar to that of P. farina/is, but the central belt much less 

 irregular, its outer margin forming a regular arch fi'om costa to below first median branch, 

 below which it is >-shaped : secondaries smoky grey, with markings nearly as in P. farinaUs : 

 body similar to the lighter examples of P. farinalls. Expanse of wings 19 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



Only one exam[)le Mas in the collection ; it is, however, so dissimilar from P. farinaUs in 

 the pattern of the primaries that it has been necessary to name it. 



Pyralis princeps. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 12.) 



Primaries with the basal third, internal border, and postei'ior two thirds of outer border 

 iilac, remainder of ground-colour golden oehraeeous, the portion within and immediately 



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