38 PYRALIDiE. 



c. Fore wing with veins 8, 9 stalked, 7 sepa- 

 rate. 

 a'. Fore wing with veins 6, 7 stalked, S 

 with a hyaline vesicle beyond the cell ; 

 palpi projecting about the length of 



head . 3. Thyeidophora, 



V . Fore wing with veins 6, 7 from cell. [p. 39. 



a 2 . Frons fiat and oblique; fore wing 



with the apex rounded 11. Cirrhocheista, 



b 2 . Frons with a rounded projection; [p. 49. 



palpi once to twice the length of 



head 9. Sciepophaga, 



c 2 . Frons with a slight tuft : palpi three to [p. 45. 



four times length of head 10. Schcenobius, p. 47. 



Genus NIPHOPYRALIS. 



Niphopyralis, Hmpsn. El. Het. ix, p. 181 (1893). 



Type, N. nivalis, Hmpsn. 



Range. Bhutan ; Bombay ; Ceylon ; Borneo. 



Palpi upturned, smoothly scaled, and hardly reaching vertex of 

 head ; maxillary palpi minute ; frons rounded ; antennae of male 

 bipectinate ; tibiae with the spurs nearly equal. Fore wing short 

 and rounded ; vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 

 7 well separated from 8, 9 ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



4237. Niphopyralis nivalis, Hmpsn. III. Ilet. ix, p. 181, pi. 174, 



fig. 6. 



d . White. Fore wing suffused with pale brown except the costal 



area ; an ill-defined some- 

 what sinuous antemedial 

 dark line ; slight dark dis- 

 cocellular marks ; the apex 

 and margin white, sending 

 a tooth inwards on vein 2, 

 and with two black specks 

 Fig. 23.— Niphopyralis nivalis, <J. f b e ] ovv apex an d tw0 a b ove 



outer angle. Hind wing 

 pure white, with black marginal specks at vein 2. 

 Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 16 millim. 



4238. Niphopyralis contaminata, Hmpsn. III. Set. ix, p. 181, pi. 174, 



fig. 14. 



c? . Differs from nivalis in the metathorax being fuscous. Fore 

 wing pure white ; traces of a sinuous antemedial line ; a diffused 

 black patch on discocellulars and costa above end of cell; the 

 whole outer area fuscous black, except the apex and margin, on 

 which the black specks are present. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 16 millim. 



