170 Indian Museum Notes, [Vol. V. 



George F. Hampson, Bart., as wel! as the two synonymic names 

 given to it by Colonel C. Swinhoe. 



Jarthera simplex, Butler. Habitat : Formosa. Description : 

 "Form of preceding species [Jarthera chrysographella, Kollar], 

 but the primaries [the front wings] of the male uniformly greyish 

 brown, minutely speckled with darker scales, a marginal series of 

 black dots, fringe blackish ; of the female testaceous with black 

 marginal dots and pale testaceous fringe ; secondaries [the hind 

 wings] silvery white, slightly greyish in the male: body corre- 

 sponding in colour with the wings. Under surface white, the wings 

 suffused with brown in the male and with testaceous in the female to- 

 wards the costal margin. Expanse of wings : <$ il lines, $ 13 lines* 

 A pair." — [Butler , I.e.) 



Chilo simplex^ Butler. Habitat: Japan; Formosa; Chusan ; 

 Punjab ; Karachi. Description: "Male: yellowish brown suffused 

 with fuscous. Fore wing with costal area rather darkest ; traces of 

 dark specks below middle of cell and at lower angle ; the veins of 

 outer area slightly streaked with fuscous : a marginal series of black 

 specks. Hind wing whitish with slight fuscous tinge. Female: 

 paler, the hind wing white. The form parte llus [Swinhoe], has 

 on the fore wing of male a highly curved antemedial series of short 

 fuscous streaks, a slight yellowish patch in end of cell, an oblique 

 series of diffused fuscous streaks, from apex to middle of inner 

 margin, and a sub-marginal series of specks; female with same 

 diffused fuscous from apex round lower angle of cell, or sometimes 

 nearly evenly suffused with fuscous, with a dark fuscous patch 

 beyond cell." ~-(Hampson, Ind. Mus. Notes, vol. v, n. i, p. 22 

 (1900).) 



Crambus zonellus, Swinhoe. Habitat : Karachi, May. Des- 

 cription: " Allied to C. decolorellz^s* Yellowish fawn-colour; 

 abdomen whitish ; last joint of the labial palpi very long, ^ inch ; 

 abdomen extending somewhat beyond the wings. Fore wings acute 

 outer border nearly straight, slightly oblique, marginal points black ; 

 fore wings darker towards the costa and outer border, a faint brown 

 streak along the sub-costal n'ervure, a black dot at the end of the 

 cell two brown spots below, on the submedian nervure, and a 

 brown shadowy band running in from the apex, towards the centre 

 of the hinder' margin, but stopping half way ; hind wings whitish. 

 Expanse of wings -& inch."— [Swinhoe, 1. c.) 



* ? Gelechia decolorella, Herrich-Schaffer in Walker's Lep. B. M. pt. xxvii, p. 585, n. 181 

 (1863). 



