380 PYRALLD.E. 



Sect. II. (Archernis). Antennae of male normal. 



5091. Archernis humilis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 146. 



S • Grey suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown ; palpi 

 white below. Fore wing with indistinct oblique slightly sinuous 

 dark antemedial line ; an indistinct dark discocellular speck ; both 

 wings with a dark postmedial line slightly excurved below costa 

 and more so between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below end of 

 cell ; a marginal series of dark specks and dark line through the 

 cilia. Underside grey, with the marginal line reduced to specks. 



Hah. Khasis ; Nagas. Exp. 20 millim. 



5092. Archernis nictitans, Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv, p. 146. 



$ . Ochreous grey-brown ; palpi white below ; frons white. 

 Fore wing with white discocellular spot with black marks on each 

 side of it ; both wings with a minutely dentate postmedial line 

 bent outwards between veins 5 and 2 ; a marginal series of dark 

 specks and fine pale line at base of cilia. Underside whitish, with 

 discocellular black specks ; the postmedial line reduced to specks. 



Hah. Khasis. Exp. 20 millim. 



5093. Archernis obliquialis, n. sp. 



S . Pale ochreous and brown. Fore wing reddish brown irrorated 

 with black ; the costal and inner areas pale ochreous ; a pale 

 ochreous oblique subbasal wedge-shaped band below the cell and an 

 oblique antemedial band ; two oblique lines from apex diverging 

 towards inner margin and a marginal line ; two fine black lines 

 through the cilia. Hind wing fuscous, pale at base and with traces 

 of pale postmedial line. 



Hah. Sikhim (Pilcher). Exp. 16 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus TERASTIA. 

 Terastia, Guen. Belt. 8? Pyr. p. 211 (1854). 



Type, T. meticulosalis, Gruen. 



Range. Neotropical and Oriental regions. 



Palpi porrect and triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by 

 hair ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons flat ; antennae of male ciliated ; 

 fore tibiae fringed with long hair ; mid and hind tibiae with the 

 outer spurs about half the length of the inner ; abdomen of male 

 with lateral tufts on the last three segments, the anal tuft long. 

 Fore wing long and narrow ; the costa arched towards apex, 

 which is produced ; the outer margin excurved at middle ; the 

 inner margin excised before outer angle, which is lobed ; vein 3 

 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 somewhat approximated for a 

 short distance ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing 

 ample ; the costa highly excised before and after middle, lobed at 



