PYRAUSTIN^E. 539 



a sub-margin brown line to both wings, not close to the margin : 

 marginal line brown, cilia grey brown with a brown line running 

 through its base : abdomen with dark brown segmental lines and a 

 white spot at the base of the brown anal tuft. 



Expanse of wings, i^ inches, 

 a. India (type). 



Nearest in resemblance to P. lugubralis, Leech, Entom., 1889, p. 67. 



3614. Pyrausta rhipheusalis. PL vni. f. 20. 



Botys rhipheztsalis. Walker: xviii. 710 (1859). 



Pyrausta rhipheusalis. Hampson: P. Z. S., Lond., 1899, p. 256. 



a. Sarawak, Borneo (type) (Wallace). 



3815. Pyrausta memnialis. 



Ebulea (?) memnialis. Walker: xix. 1010 (1859). 



Pyrausta memnialis. Hampson : P. Z. S., Lond., 1899, p. 263. 



Type. Shanghai, in B. M. 

 a. N. India. 

 The Chinese form of the European Pyrausta palustralis, Hiibn. 



3616. Pyrausta theialis. 



Botys theialis. Walker : xviii. 689 (1859). 



Hampson : P. Z. S., Lond., 1899, App. p. 287. 

 a. Sarawak, Borneo (type) (Wallace). 



The type specimen should be in the B. M. : but there has 

 apparently been a misprint here in Walker's catalogue ; this example 

 is undoubtedly the type and has Walker's label on it. Hampson puts 

 it in his list of lost types. 



GENUS SCELIODES. Guen. : Delt. et Pyral., p. 400 (1854). 



Daraba. Walker: xvii. 385 (1859). 

 Eretria. Snellen: Tijd. voor Ent., xxiii. p. 206 (1880). 



3617. Sceliodes cordalis. 



Margaritia cordalis. Double. : Dieff. N. Zeal., i. 288, 128 (1843). 



Scapula (?) cordalis. Walker : xviii. p. 794 (1859). 



Sceliodes cordalis. Meyrick : Trans. Ent. Soc., Lond., 1884, p. 303. 



Hampson : P. Z. S., Lond., 1899, p. 275. 

 Sceliodes mucidalis. Guen. : 1. c. 



Walker : xix. p. 799 (1859). 

 - Led.: Wien. Ent. Mon., vii. p. 381 (1863). 

 Daraba extensalis. Walker: xxxiv. p. 1311 (1865). 

 Eretria obsistalis. Snellen : 1. c. ; and xxvi. pi. 6, f. 12 (1883). 



Type (extensalis). New Zealand, in B. M. 



a. Australia. b. N.Zealand. c. South Island, N. Zealand. 



