1230 CATALOGUE OF 



thai) the vertex, much shorter than the breadth of the head ; third 

 joint elongate-conical, less than half the length of the second. Ab- 

 domen extending a little beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, 

 slender. Wings moderately broad, with black marginal points ; 

 under side pale cinereous, gilded. Fore wings acute, with a blackish 

 basal patch, which occupies the whole breadth and is partly con- 

 nected with a blackish dentate line ; a postmedial blackish dentate 

 line, which is much curved outward towards the costa ; a blackish 

 lunule in the disk between the lines ; a blackish patch by the hind 

 part of the exterior border, which is slightly convex and oblique. 

 Hind wings whitish, semihyaline, slightly gilded along the exterior 

 border. Length of the body 4 \ lines; of the wings 11 lines. 



a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



PYRAL1S ? CONTRACTALIS. 



Ochracea, robusta ; alee latiuxculce, nigro subconspersce, puncto 

 lineaque exteriore vix undulata nigris ; anticee linea basali 

 angulosa puncluque marginalibus nigris ; poslicce lineis dua- 

 bus postmediis nigricantibus. 



Ochraceous, stout, paler beneath. Legs smooth, moderately 

 stout. Wings rather broad, slightly and minutely black-speckled, 

 with a black point in the disk and with an exterior black hardly 

 undulating line. Fore wings hardly acute, with a slight zigzag 

 black line near the base; marginal poinis black; exterior border 

 nearly straight, rather oblique. Hind wings with two blackish ex- 

 terior lines besides the one above mentioned. Length of the body 

 2^ lines; of the wings 6 lines. 



a. Limas, Honduras. Presented by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Pyralis ccrtalis. 

 Mas et foem. Crassa, obscure purpurascente-cinerea ; palpi por- 

 recti, caput perpaullo superantes, articulo So brevissimo ; tarsi 

 postici basi tibiceque posteriores dense pilosa ; tarsi posteriores 

 albi ; alee anticce obscure ochracece, basi purpurascente-cinerece^ 

 fascia lata ochraceo-albida nigro marginata. 



Male and female. Dark purplish cinereous, very stout. Palpi 

 porrect, smooth, extending very little beyond the head ; third joint 

 extremely short. Antennae of the male pubescent. Abdomen ex- 

 tending a little beyond the hind wings. Posterior tibiae densely 



