920 CATALOGUE OF 



rather beyond the hind wings. Legs slender, smooth ; spurs very 

 long. Wings opaque, rather broad, alike in colour, without lines. 

 Fore wings hardly acute ; costa slightly convex ; exterior border 

 convex, moderately oblique. 



This genus, like Labanda, can hardly be classed under any of 

 the established families of the Pyralites. It bears a slight resem- 

 blance to the Lithosiidce, and has some affinity to the Erebida. 



1. PlNACIA MoLYBDjENALIS. 



Plumbea ; abdomen apice subtusque flavum ; alee anticce guttis 

 tribus discalibus nigris, la interiore, 2a Saque approximates 

 exterioribus. 



Pinacia Molybdaenalis (Pyralis geometriformis, Salia egregia), 

 Hubn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. iii. 13, 218, f. 435, 436. 



Batavia. Sarawak, Borneo. 



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DOTHTHA MESENTERIALIS. 



Var. Mas. Saturate rosea, robusta ; palpi breves, graciles, as- 

 cendentes ; antennae pubescentes ; abdomen flavescens, alas 

 posticas longe superans, lateribus basalibus fasciaque sub- 

 apicali roseis, fasciculo apicali magno ; pedes graciles, glabri; 

 alee antica punctis marginalibus lunulaque discali nigris, 

 fascia lata fimbriaque apice jlavis ; posticm flava?, basi apice- 

 que roseis. 



Var. Male. Deep rose-colour, robust, pale beneath. Palpi 

 short, slender, obliquely ascending, not rising near so high as the 

 vertex. Antennae pubescent. Abdomen yellowish, extending far 

 beyond the hind wings, rosy on each side at the base, and with 

 a rosy subapical band ; apical tuft large, partly rosy. Legs slen- 

 der, smooth. Wings moderately broad. Fore wings with the mar- 

 ginal points black ; a black discal lunule adjoining the fore part of 

 the outer side of a broad yellow band ; fringe yellow at the tips, 

 which are somewhat rounded ; under side speckled with black. 

 Hind wings yellow, rosy towards the base and at the tips. Length 

 of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



This and the following species have much resemblance to some 



