120 Mr. F. Walker's Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera 



tennae very minutely pubescent. Abdomen with a row of small 

 tufts along each side, conical and compressed at the tip, which 

 extends rather beyond the hind-wings. Legs short, thick ; spurs 

 long ; anterior legs mostly white. Fore-wings rather narrow, 

 rounded at the tips, adorned with glaucous speckles, and traversed 

 by three irregular black lines ; 2nd and 3rd lines connected on 

 the costa ; sub-marginal lunules blackish ; costa hardly convex ; 

 exterior border slightly oblique. 



Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 10 lines. 



Amazon Region. 



Pyralis proximalis. 



Mas.— Cer\'ina, sat robusta, palpis porrectis latis articulo 3o 

 parvo, abdomine alas posticas superante, pedibus robustis, 

 alis anticis sat angustis apice sub-rotundatis, spatio interiore 

 nigricante-fusco, spatio medio pallid^ cervino albido-margi- 

 nato, puncto discali nigro, fimbria fusco-punctata, alis pos- 

 ticis albido-cinereis. 



Male. — Fawn-colour, rather stout, cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 porrect, extending somewhat beyond the head ; 2nd joint broad, 

 slightly curved ; 3rd elongate-conical, about one-fourth of the 

 length of the 2nd. Antennae smooth, rather stout. Abdomen 

 extending rather beyond the hind-wings. Legs stout, smooth. 

 Fore-wings rather narrow, slightly rounded at the tips, blackish- 

 brown towards the base, which is fawn-colour ; middle part pale 

 fawn-colour, bounded on each side by a whitish vmdulating line, 

 and containing a black discal point ; fringe pale, double, the in- 

 terior part with brown points ; costa slightly contracted in the 

 middle ; exterior part rather oblique. Hind-wings whitish 

 cinereous. 



Length of the body 3 lines; of the wings 10 lines. 



Hindostan. 



Pyralis nigricalls. 



Foem. — Nigra ; abdomine alisque posticis pallide cinereis, alis 

 anticis albido-couspersis apice rotundatis, lineis tribus albidis 

 interruptis undulatis, linea 3a biflexa, punctis marginalibus 

 albidis, alis posticis apud marginem exteriorem sub-fusce- 

 scentibus, 



Female. — Black. Head wanting. Abdomen, hind-wings and 

 underside pale cinereous. Fore-wings whitish-speckled, much 

 rounded at the tips; basal, interior and exterior lines whitish, 



