242 PYRAL1D.E. 



4752. Micraglossa scoparialis, Warr. A. N. M. H. (6) viii, p. 66. 



6 . Grey, irrorated with black, with an olive-yellow tinge. Fore 



wing with diffused black basal 

 patch; a diffused black ante- 

 medial band constricted from 



vein 1 to inner margin ; a large 

 somewhat X-shaped discocellular 

 black spot, with fuscous patch 

 between it and costa ; fuscous 

 Micraglossafc'oparialk, <3 . \. patches _ on costa _ before apex 



and on inner margin before outer 

 angle. Hind wing pale grey. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Khasis. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus SCOPARIA. 

 Scoparia, Haxo. Lep. Brit. p. 498 (1811). 



Type, S. cembrce, Haw., from Europe. 



Range. Universally distributed. 



Palpi porrect, about twice the length of head, the 2nd joint with 

 long projecting hair below, the 3rd naked ; maxillary palpi largely 

 dilated with scales ; frons rounded ; antennas minutely ciliated 

 and somewhat annulated ; tibia? with the outer spurs about two- 

 thirds length of inner. Pore wing with more or less developed tufts 

 of raised scales at middle and end of cell ; vein 3 from before angle 

 of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 7 straight, and well separated from 8, 9, 

 to which 10 is approximated towards origin. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 6, 7 shortly stalked. 



Sect. I. Hind wing with veins 4, 5 from angle of cell. 



4753. Scoparia pulveralis, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 570. 



Head and thorax black-brown, irrorated with bluish- white scales ; 

 abdomen fuscous. Pore wing black-brown, irrorated with bluish- 

 white scales, which form an indistinct streak below base of median 

 nervure and broad medial band ; a dark quadrate patch in end of 

 cell with blue-grey band beyond it from costa to vein 5, beyond 

 which again are very obscure irregular blue-grey postmedial and 

 submarginal lines ; cilia whitish, with series of specks and the tips 

 fuscous. Hind wing nearly pure white. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 22 millim. 



4754. Scoparia medinella, Snell. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 571. 



Differs from pulveralis in the fore wing having an oblique 

 antemedial white line ; no medial line ; the mark in cell figure- 

 of-8-shaped, the band curving round it and reaching inner 

 margin ; the submarginal line developed into blotches below apex 



