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PYRALIDjE. 



4209. Chilo torrentellus, Meyr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S.W. iii, p. 184. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen white, slightly tinged in parts 

 with fuscous. Tore wing with pure white costal stripe, followed 

 by a cupreous-brown fascia through the cell expanding to outer 

 margin, with a similar pure white fascia below the cell ; the inner 

 area cupreous brown ; a marginal series of black specks. Hind 

 wing pure white, the apex with a fine dark marginal line ; both 

 wings with tine fuscous line through the cilia. 



Eab. Siihiru ; Shan States ; Australia. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus ESCHATA. 



Eschata, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 133 (1856). 

 Chterecla, Wlk. Cat. xxxii, p. 633 (1865). 



Type, E. gelida, Wlk. 



Range. Oriental region. 



Palpi porrect, reaching slightly beyond the frons and thickly 

 scaled ; maxillary palpi dilated with scales and nearly as long as 

 labial ; frons produced to an acute corneous point ; antennae of 

 male thickened and flattened; tibiae and tarsal joints fringed with 

 long hair. Fore wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 

 7 from cell, anastomosing, or stalked with 8, 9 ; 10 free; 11 

 curved and running along 12. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



Sect 

 4210. 



6. 



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I. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced and acute. 

 Eschata xanthorhyncha, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1895, p. 960. 



Differs from gelida in the head and thorax being white ; 



palpi orange, banded w T ith 

 white ; fore legs orange 

 fringed with white ; tarsi 

 banded with orange. 

 Fore wing with the area 

 between the postinedial 

 and submarginal lines 

 evenly irrorated with 

 Fig. IS.-Eschata xanthorhyncha, tf. \. b l ack sca l es . Hind wing 



fuscous black ; the cilia white. Underside with the basal two- 

 thirds of wings suffused with fuscous black. 

 Hub. Ceylon. Exp. 32 millim. 



4211. Eschata gelida, Wlk. Cat. ix, p. 133; C. % S. no. 4652. 



<S . Differs from chrysargyria in the head, thorax, and abdomen 

 being tinged with fuscous. Fore wing with the basal half suffused 

 with golden brown,' leaving a band of white inside the postinedial 



