270 PYRALIDiK. 



Genus PAGYDA. 



Pagyda, Wile. Cat. xvii, p. 487 (1859). 

 Synclera, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 444. 



Type, P. salvalis, Wlk. 



Range. Japan ; Oriental region. 



Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head ; the 2nd joint very 

 broadly and quadrately scaled, the 3rd with a long pointed tuft in 

 front ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons rounded : antenna? annulated 

 with rings at the joints ; tibias smoothly sealed, the spurs nearly 

 equal, except the outer medial spur of hind tibiae which is about 

 half the length of the inner. Pore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 angle of cell : 6 from well below upper angle ; 7 widely separated 

 from 8, 9 ; 10 approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing Avith the cell 

 short ; vein 3 from angle ; 4, 5 approximated for a short distance 

 ■or well separated ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Sect. I. {Pagyda). Mid tibiae of male dilated with a fold 

 containing a tuft of long hair. 



4802. Pagyda auroralis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 215, pi. 7, fig. 17 ; C.$ 8. 



no. 4319. _ 

 Pagyda rubricatalis, Sivi?ih. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 282. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange and yellow ; palpi with the 

 2nd joint ringed with fuscous ; thorax striped with orange ; 

 abdomen ringed with white towards extremity. Pore wing pale, 

 with basal, subbasal, antemedial, and medial oblique orange bands 

 tinged with red towards inner margin ; a postmedial inwardly 

 oblique line terminating at vein 3 ; two submarginal orange bands. 

 Hind wing suffused wiih blood-red ; the costal area pale ; the 

 outer area yellowish ; a pale discocellular spot and pale postmedial 

 line, retracted along vein 2, then excurved again ; a pale submar- 

 ginal line dentate inwards on vein 2. 



Hah. Sikh mi ; Khasis ; Rangoon. Exp. 22 millim. 



4803. Pagyda salvalis, Walk. Cat. xvii, p. 487 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 182, fig. 6 ; C. cy S. no. 4330. 

 Botys arbiter, Butl. 111. Set. iii, p. 77, pi. 59, fig. 13. 



Head orange ; palpi with two black semicircles on 2nd joint ; 



frons with a black-and-white 

 lateral line ; thorax greyish with 

 orange stripes ; abdomen greyish, 

 the terminal half fulvous with 

 black-and-white segmental rings 

 and a broad white ring before the 

 anal tuft ; wings grey. Pore wing 

 Fig. 164.— Pagyda salvalis, J. \. with the costa orange ; an out- 

 wardly oblique subbasal orange 

 line ; slightly oblique antemedial and medial orange lines arising 

 from black specks on the costa ; an inwardly oblique postmedial 



