20 pyraliDjE. 



three times length of head and clothed with rough hair ; maxillary- 

 palpi triangularly scaled ; frons rounded ; antennae of male 

 minutely serrate and ciliated ; tibia with the spurs nearly equal. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle, 

 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9, Avhich are sometimes 

 coincident; 10 free ; 11 usually oblique. Hind wing with vein 3 

 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle or stalked ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Sect. I. {Platytes). Fore wing with the outer margin not 

 indented at vein 6. 



A. Fore wing with vein 11 anastomosing with 12. 



4185. Platytes diatrseella, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with olive-brown. 

 Fore wing white, the interspaces streaked with olive-brown and 

 irrorated with long olive-brown scales, leaving the veins broadly 

 white ; a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing white, 

 slightly suffused with olive fuscous. 



Hah. Xhasis. Exp. 40 millim. Types in coll. Eothschild and 

 B.M. 



B. Fore iving with vein 11 free and oblique. 



4186. Platytes paralella. Zell. Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 389, pi. ii, 



fig. 1 ; C.fy S. no. 4699. 



Head white ; palpi rufous at sides ; antennse rufous ; thorax 

 white strjped with rufous ; abdomen pale fuscous. Fore wing 

 whitish suffused with rufous, leaving the inner and outer areas 

 white ; a dark line from costa just beyond middle, very acutely 

 angled below costa, then very oblique and with a black discocellular 

 speck on it ; a similar postmedial line excurved below costa instead 

 of angled ; a marginal series of black specks ; cilia pale rufous, 

 fuscous at base. Hind wing whitish, with fine brown marginal 

 line towards apex. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 20 millim. 



4187. Platytes marginipunctalis, Mmpsn. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 945. 



Pure white ; palpi rufous at sides ; collar with two rufous lines. 

 Fore wing with slight rufous streaks from base along costa, 

 median nervure, and vein 1 ; a medial rufous line very highly 

 angled below costa and with a black discocellular spot on it ; a 

 double submarginal rufous line highly angled on vein 6, its outer 

 portion indistinct aud minutely crenulate near the angle ; a 

 marginal series of black specks ; the cilia silvery at base, the tips 

 fuscous. Hind wing pure white. Underside of fore wing suffused 

 with fuscous. 



Bab. Dharmsala. Exp. 18 miilim. 



