CB, AMBUS. 17 



B. Fore wing with the apex acute and produced ; the outer 

 margin not excised below apex. 



4175. Crambus nigricosta, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 143, pi. 156, 



fig. 22. 



"White ; palpi at sides and antennae rnfous ; thorax striped with 

 rufous ; abdomen blackish. Fore wing silvery white ; the costal 

 and outer margins narrowly black ; cilia pale rufous. 



Hab. Nilgiris. Exp. 24 millim. 



4176. Crambus nigriciliellus, Zell. Mon. CHI. 8c Cramb. p. 52 ; C. 8c S. 



no. 4707. 

 Crambus inclaralis, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 166 ; C. 8c S. no. 4664. 

 Crambus brachypterellus, Wlk. Cat. xxxv, p. 1757. 



White, very slightly sullied with fuscous. Fore wiug usually 

 with a marginal series of dark specks from apex to vein 3 ; the 

 underside suffused with fuscous. 



Hab. Japan; China; JJharinsala ; Bombay. Exp. 22-28 millim. 



C. Fore iving with the apex acute and produced, the outer margin 

 excised belotu apex ; hind wing ivith the lower part of cell very 

 long. 



4177. Crambus malacellus, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii, p. 61, pi. 270, fig. 5 ; 

 C. 8c S. no. 4697. 

 Crambus hapaliscus, Zell. K. Vet.-Ak. Handl. Stockholm, 1854, 



p. 71 : C. 8c S. no. 4695. 

 Crambus concinellus, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 165. 



Head white ; palpi cupreous black at sides ; thorax black with 

 white dorsal stripe ; abdomen fuscous, whitish towards extremity. 

 Pore wing cupreous black, with broad silvery white fascia from 

 base, tapering beyond the cell ; the inner margin more or less 

 broadly white ; two oblique white postmedial streaks from costa 

 to apex of medial fascia, from which a line, angled outwards on 

 vein 2, runs to iuner margin ; the area beyond it grey with four 

 black streaks at middle ; an apical black spot with white line on 

 its inner edge and white patch below it. Hind wing white, tinged 

 with fuscous towards outer margin. 



Hab. Palsearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian regions. 

 Exp. 20 millim. 



Sect. II. Bore wing with vein 11 becoming coincident with 12 ; 

 hind wing, and often the fore wing, with veins 4, 5 stalked. 



4178. Crambus ochristrigellus, Hmpsn. P. Z. 8. 1895, p. 938. 



$ . Ochreous. Bore wing with the interspaces irrorated with 

 fuscous scales, forming obscure streaks from base to beyond middle 

 and obscure postmedial and submarginal series of short streaks ; 

 two dark specks on the margin below middle. Hind wing ochreous 

 white. 



Hab. Lahore; Ceylon. Exp. 14-22 millim. 

 VOL. iv. c 



