652 SIR G. F. HAMPSON ON THE [June 1, 



upper angle; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with a 

 slight glandular patch of scales beyond cell, which is extremely 

 short ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 stalked, 7 anastomosing 

 with 8. 



^ilP^- (l)tSAMCOVA INCENSANA, Wlk. xxviii. 436. Brazil. 



(2)*Samcova damia, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 308, pi. 28. 



f. 4 ( $ ). Centr. Am. 



Ejpidelia viridalis, Eag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1891, p. 101, pi. 16. 



f. 8. 



Genus Tosale. 



Tosale, Wlk. xxviii. 447 (1863). 



Fabatana, Wlk. xxxiv. 1265 (1865). 



Sijoarocera, Grrote, Ann. N.Y. Lye. 1876, p. 129. 



Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head, the 3rd joint short ; 

 irons with a slight tuft ; antennae of male ciliated ; mid tibiae with 

 large tufts of scales at base and extremity, the first joints of tarsi 

 with large tufts. Fore wing of male with a tympanic vesicle and 

 the costa arched at base ; a costal fold below ; the retinaculum 

 annulate and fringed with hair ; the frenulum thickened and 

 flattened, and with a short lower fork ; the apex rounded ; the 

 outer angle hooked ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked in male, in female 7, 8, 9, 

 10 stalked; 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle 

 of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; the discocellulars highly angled ; 6, 7 

 stalked, 7 anastomosing slightly with 8. 



Kg. 15. 



Tosale pyralidoides, (^ . \. 



Sect. I. Fore and hind wings of male without patches of 

 velvety black scales on disk. 



(l)tTosALE aucta, n. sp. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown with a slight red tinge ; 

 palpi and legs deeper red-brown ; the extremities of tarsi white. 

 Fore wing red-brown, suffused in parts with grey ; a semicircular 

 chocolate band with slightly waved grey outer edge beyond the 

 tympanic vesicle; diffused medial and submarginal olive-brown 

 shades ; a grey postmcdial line with black specks on its inner edge, 

 excurved from vein 6 to 2, where it is bent inwards ; the cilia 

 blackish. Hind wing black-brown, with a pale sinuous line from 



