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Habitat. — Corsica ; Centr. Italy ; Dalmatia ; Crete ; Egypt ; Sudan ; 

 Basutoland ; Aden ; Asia Minor ; Syria ; W. Turkestan ; Punjab, 

 Kangra, Dharmsala ; Sikkim. Uap. 30-42 mill. 



Larva, Kirby, Eur. Butt, and Moths, p. 166; Hflfm. Raup., p. 105. 



Ochreous whitish ; head rufous ; spiracles black. Foodplant, in stalks of 

 maize. 



19436. Sesamia unipormis. 



Nonagria uniformis, Dudgeon, J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xvi, p. 402 

 (1905). 



Head and thorax pale ochreous slightly tinged with brown ; palpi 

 fuscous, whitish below ; frons tinged with fuscous ; fore and mid legs 

 irrorated with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous white. Forewing olive ochreous 

 sparsely irrorated with dark brown ; an antemedial black point in 

 submedian fold ; a slight diffused fuscous shade on extremity of median 

 nervure and just beyond lower angle of cell ; a slight black point in lower 

 angle of cell and another in discal fold just beyond the discocellulars ; 

 postmedial black points in discal and submedian folds with races of a curved 

 series of black points beyond them on the veins ; a fine blackish terminal 

 line not quite reaching apex and tornus ; cilia ochreous white with faint 

 brownish lines near base and tips. Hindwing pure white ; the underside 

 with the costal area slightly tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown. 



Habitat. — Bengal, Burogah ; Bombay, Surat. Exp. S 32, $ 34-38 mill. 



Larva. Destructive to sugar-cane. 



Genus Xylostola. Type. 



Xylostola, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., ix, p. 335(1910). . indistincta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to vertex of head and broadly fringed with scales in front, the 3rd 

 long ; frons with small rounded prominence covered by a tuft of hair ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair 

 and hair-like scales, and without crests ; tibise fringed with rather long 

 hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base, but without crests. Fore- 

 wing with the apex rather produced and acute, the termen evenly curved 

 and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from tapper 

 angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hindwing with veins 3' 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6' 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the 

 Sell near base only. 



A. Forewing with black lunules in centre and on outer 



edge of reniform . . .. .. .. robusta. 



B. Forewing with the reniform defined by black points indistincta. 

 1945. Xylostola robusta. 



1889. Xylostola indistincta. 



