316 pyralldjE. 



costa, nearly straight to vein 2, then retracted to lower angle of 

 cell and slightly angled on vein 1. Hind wing with discocellular 

 spot ; the postmedial line bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, 

 then retracted to lower angle of cell ; both wings with marginal 

 black line and line at base of cilia, which are fuscous on fore wing, 

 white on hind wing. 



Some specimens have hardly any fuscous suffusion. 



Hab. Neotropical, Ethiopian, and Oriental regions. Exp. 

 20 millim. 



4923. Nacoleia diemenalis, Guen. Belt. # Pyr. p. 203. 

 Pyrausta absistalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 311 ; C. # S. no. 4338. 

 Asopia lydialis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 374. 



Botys ustalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, pp. 375, 471, pi. x, 



fig. 14. 

 Pyralis incertalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1247. 

 Hedylepta pyraustalis, Snell. Midd.-Sum. iv, Lep. p. 71. 



Differs from vulgalis in the yellow areas being brighter ; the 

 thorax and abdomen fuscous, the latter tinged with white. Fore 

 wing with a fuscous subbasal band, leaving a yellow band inside 

 the antemedial line ; the medial area with fuscous on median 

 nervure and in the sinus of the postmedial line, or wholly fuscous 

 except costal area ; the outer area of both wings fuscous, leaving 

 a broad yellow band beyond the postmedial line sometimes reduced 

 on fore wing to patches at costa and on inner margin ; whilst in 

 the yellower specimens there is often a more or less developed 

 marginal yellow band on both wings. 



Hab. S. Afiica; Formosa; Ceylon; Burma: Andamans ; Su- 

 matra; Java; Celebes: Fiji. Exp. 20 millim. 



b'. (Tjdostega). Fore icing of male iviih a tuft of large scales in 

 cell above, and very large fan of scales in cell below. 



4924. Nacoleia valvata, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 104. 



S . Reddish brown, suffused and irrorated with black; palpi 

 whitish below ; abdomen mostly ochreous. Fore wing with the 

 tuft in cell dark ; a postmedial black line sinuous from costa to 

 vein 5, then retracted to below end of cell, obsolescent and more 

 prominent again from vein 2 to inner margin ; the basal and outer 

 areas most suffused with black, the medial area brown ; a marginal 

 series of black specks. Hind wing ochreous ; a dark basal patch ; 

 a discocellular line : a postmedial sinuous line excurved between 

 veins 5 and 2 ; a dark marginal line on apical half and diffused 

 black pat ch on anal area. 



Hab. Khasis. Exp. 22 millim. 



