Genera and Species of Pyralide. 461 
Hills, the Australian from N. Queensland; besides these are 
a few taken by Mr. Doherty in 8. Celebes, Pulo Laut, and 
at Humboldt’s Bay, New Guinea. The types of all the 
species here described’are now in the possession of the Hon. 
Walter Rothschild, and will be found in the Tring Museum. 
In the extensive subfamily Pyraustine the formation of 
several new genera appeared unavoidable. 
Family Pyralide. 
Subfamily Hrreascurrsz. 
Genus Srericra, Led. 
Stericta atribasalis, sp. n. 
Fore wings with whole basal third dark brownish black, 
the outer edge vertical, irregularly defined, followed by a 
whitish line, edged externally with dark grey ; second line 
blackish at two thirds, interrupted, running outwards to 
middle, then bluntly angled and denticulate to inner margin 
before anal angle; it is followed on the costa by a whitish 
spot ; central area between the lines pale ochreous, thickly 
dusted with dull brick-red and fuscous scales, the subcostal 
and median nervures dull green, undusted, as is also a small 
blotch at the extreme base of costa; cell-spot blackish brown, 
with raised scales; marginal area dark reddish grey, with 
whitish scales interspersed, and forming an indistinct zigzag 
line towards hind margin ; fringes glossy, reddish grey, with 
a line of dark spots along hind margin before their paler base. 
Hind wings smooth, dark grey ; fringes reddish grey. Palpi, 
face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen reddish grey, with paler 
and darker scales intermixed; second joint of palpi with a 
pale ring at summit; third joint pale-tipped. Underside 
glossy : fore wings dark grey towards hind margin, reddish 
along costa, and pearly whitish on inner margin: hind wings 
paler, whitish towards base, mottled with reddish along costa, 
with a dark curved line at two thirds before the dark reddish- 
grey hind margin. 
Eixpanse of wings 32 millim. 
One female from Queensland. 
Stericta picta, sp. n. 
Fore wings of mixed tints, chiefly ferruginous brown ; 
basal patch bright ferruginous along costa, mixed and shaded 
with olive-fuscous below ; first line black, curved ; second line 
black, denticulate, and sinuous, from costa at two thirds 
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