54 pyralidjE. 



a marginal series of dark specks, Hind wing white ; the apical 

 part of costa tinged with rufous. 

 Hob. Punjab. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus HYPSOTROPHA. 



Hypsotropa, Zell. Isis, 1848, p. 591. 



Heosphora, Me?/?-. P. Linn. Soe. N. 8. W. vii, p. 158 (1882). 



Talamba, Rag. Nouv. Gen. p. 47 (1888). 



Type, H. limbella, Zell., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; S. Africa ; Syria ; Amur ; India ; Australia. 



Palpi extending three or four times length of head and fringed- 

 with hair above, in male with the second joint hollowed out to 

 receive the brush-like maxillary palpi ; antennae of male with a 

 sinus at base containing a ridge of scales. Pore wing with 

 vein 2 from well before angle of cell ; 4 absent ; 3 and 5 from 

 angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked. Hind wing with vein 2 from near angle 

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



Sect. I. Hind wing with vein 7 anastomosing with'8. 



A. (Hypsotropha). Palpi obliquely upturned. 



a. Male unknoxvn. 



4280. Hypsotropha sceletella, Zell, Stettin, ent. Zeit. 1867, p. 404;. 



Rag. Mon. Phyc. pi. xliv, fig. 22 ; C. $ S. no. 4630. 



$ . Head and thorax pale pink ; abdomen ochreous with a 

 fuscous tinge. Pore wing white ; the veins strongly defined by 

 pink lines. Hind wing white. 



Hob. Calcutta. Exp. 30 millim. 



b. Antenna; of male iviili long unisenate pectinations on based third, 

 tJie medial third ciliated, the distal third with short branches. 



4281. Hypsotropha heterocerella, n. sp. 



Head and thorax grey and brown ; abdomen ochreous, suffused 



Fig. 37. — Hypsotropha heterocerella, $ . §. 



with fuscous towards extremity. Pore wing white, thickly 

 irrorated with brown ; the costal fascia rather whiter and defined- 



