PYRALIDESTHES; HINGULA; ORECTIS. By W. Warren. 401 



R. transversa Moore (71 d). Forewing yellow, thickly speckled and striated with pinkish orange; the transversa. 

 costa purplish black: the striae forming more or less defined dark lines; the outer well-defined and straight, 

 of ten marked in purple ; a dark speck at lower angle of cell; a terminal series of red specks ; fringe red brown ; 

 hindwing with the line central. Found in Central and Western China, Corea, and Kiu-shiu ; originally described 

 from N. W. India. 



R. f errilineata Hmps.(lib). Forewing greyish brown irrorated with black scales ; head feiruginous ; anal tuft ferrWwata. 

 fringed with ferruginous; inner and outer lines straight, nearly vertical, ferruginous; costa narrowly ful- 

 vous, with 2 black specks before apex ; hindwing fuscous. Chang Yang and Kiukiang, Centra] China ; describ- 

 ed from the Khasia Hills. 



R. conicephala Stgr. ( = barcinonensis Mill.) (74 a). Head and collar ash grey; rest of body yellowish ; conicephala. 

 forewing yellowish; cell spot obscurely dark; outer line formed of grey lunules; terminal dots black externally 

 reddish; hindwing pale, becoming grey towards apex; an obscure grey median streak; in the ab. fumicollis fumicollis. 

 Rghfr. the forewing is partially suffused with rosy violaceous. Spain, Syria. 



75. Genus: Pyralidesthes gen. nov. 



Allied to Raparna, but the apex of forewing is more pointed; the scaling smoother and more glossy; 

 the markings consisting of oblique bands; from its bright yellow and rosy tints the type species was placed 

 by Butler among the Pyralidae. Type P. amata Btlr. 



P. amata Btlr. Forewing yellow ; the markings rose-red ; viz., the costal margin, the termen, a broad amata. 

 oblique subterminal band, and a horizontal clash below median vein between the rise of veins 2 and 3 ; hind- 

 wings dull yellowish white, the terminal half more or less suffused with dull rosy. Japan. 



76. Genus: Hingiila Moore. 



Tongue present; frons with short conical tuft of hair; palpi porrect, twice as long as head, the se- 

 cond segment thickly scaled, the third slender, pointed, erect; antennae of <$ filiform, pubescent, with mi- 

 nute bristles; forewing with apex squared, termen bent at vein 4; an areole present; hindwing with 3, 4, 

 and 6, 7 from ends of cell; stigmata large, edged, like the black apical spot, with hyaline white. Type 

 H. albolunata Moore. 



H. erebina Btlr. (= imparata Hmps. nee Walk.) (71 d). Forewing grey dusted with darker, in the erebina. 

 median area flushed with golden brown according to the light; inner and outer lines starting from oblique 

 brown costal streaks; the subbasalfrom a small spot; inner line, interrupted by the orbicular stigma, oblique 

 inwards, lunulate dentate; outer line marked by brown drops between veins, oblique to vein 6, vertical to 4, 

 then insinuate to middle of inner margin, edged outwardly by a pale line, preceded by a dark shade which 

 is limited inwardly by the median line; subterminal line pale, flexuous, preceded by a black shade; orbicular 

 stigma large, semicircular, open above, black edged, outlined with hyaline white; reniform large, dark, with 

 hyaline dots and striae at the sides; beneath the median, at base of vein 2 a small dark oval spot with 

 hyaline white edging; a velvety black round spot at apex externally white edged; hindwing with large cell- 

 spot slightly edged with hyaline dots; outer and subterminal lines as in the forewing; fringe of both wings 

 shagreened with darker. Japan. 



77. Genus: Orectis Led. 



Tongue present; palpi long, obliquely porrect upwards, the second segment rough-scaled above, the 

 third thin and long, needle shaped, almost erect, smoothly scaled; thorax and abdomen smoothly s-aled, the 

 latter slender; the tibiae smooth: forewing moderately broad, finely scaled; the apex blunt; veins 8, 9, 10 

 stalked; hindwing with a repetition of the markings of forewing. Type 0. proboscidata H.-Sch. 



