4 PYRALID2E. 



given off at intervals from 7 ; 11 free. Male with a large 

 glandular swelling at base of costa below ; the cell narrow and 

 clothed with hair. Hind wing with the cell open ; vein 4 absent ; 

 7 anastomosing with 8. 



4142. Trachylepidia fructicassiella, Bag. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1887, 

 p. 260. 



Grey-brown. Fore wing with the median area darker and 



clothed with rough erect 

 scales, especially towards costa; 

 indistinct ante- and post- 

 medial lines of raised dark 

 scales, the former oblique and 

 obsolete towards costa, the 

 latter oblique and angled in- 

 wards on vein 5 ; a very in- 

 distinct discocellular spot ; a 

 marginal series of specks. Hind wing dull brownish yellow. 

 The larva bores in the pods of Cassia fistula. 

 Hab. Beyrout; Egypt; Punjab. Exp., 6 20-27, $ 29-34 

 millim. 



Fig. 2. 

 Trachylepidia fructicassiella. 



Genus THAGORA. 

 Thagora, Wlk. Cat. xxvii, p. 205 (1863). 



Type, T. figurana, Wlk. 



Range. Ceylon ; Borneo ; Java. 



Differs from Mucialla in veins 8 and 9 being given off at 

 intervals from 7. Male with a fascia of black scales on underside 

 of fore wing in and beyond cell, and a similar subcostal fascia on 

 upperside of hind wing. 



4143. Thagora castanella, a. sp. 



6 • Very pale chestnut. Fore wing with curved antemedial 



line, the area beyond it suffused 

 with rufous ; a black discocellular 

 speck ; an obliquely curved post- 

 medial Hue ; the fasciae on under- 

 side of fore wing and upperside of 

 hind wing deep black. 



5 with the base and costa of 

 fore wing deeper rufous, the rest 

 of the wing pale ; the ante- and 

 postmedial lines and discocellular speck almost obsolete. 



Hab. Colombo, Ceylon (Pole). Exp., <$ 18, $ 20 millim. 

 Type in B.M. 



Fig. 3. 



Thagora castanella, <$ . 



