418 pyraliDjE. 



frons flat ; antennae minutely ciliated ; mid tibiae dilated with a 

 groove containing a tuft of hair ; hind tibiae with the outer spurs 

 about half the length of the inner. Fore wing narrow ; the apex 

 arched ; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 10 closely 

 approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing with the cell short ; veins 4, 5 

 closely approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 stalked, 7 anasto- 

 mosing strongly with 8. 



5189. Mecyna gilvata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, 2, p. 208. 



Pyralis polygonalis, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. figs. 204, 



205. 

 Pyralis diversalis, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. fig. 102. 

 Mecyna aversalis, Guen. Delt. fy Pyr. p. 409, pi. 4, fig. 12. 

 Mecyna teriadalis, Guen. Delt. fy Pyr. p. 410. 

 Mecyna deprivalis, Wlk. Cat. xix, p. 806 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 179, figs. 1,1a (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 4141. 

 Mecyna rusticalis, C. fy S. no. 4142 (?iec Hilbn.). 



Head, thorax, and fore wing pale pinkish, dark vinous, or dark 



fuscous suffused with grey, 

 and with grey discal patch ; 

 palpi white below ; abdomen 

 orange. Fore wing with the 

 costa darker; an indistinct 

 obliquely curved antemedial 

 line ; a spot in cell and disco- 



Fig. 2S0^-Mecyna gilvata, ^. |. cellular lunule ; a minutely 



waved curved postmedial line, 

 often reduced to a series of specks : the marginal area rather 

 darker. Hind wing orange, with marginal dark band from costa 

 to vein 1, but often obsolescent below vein 3. Underside orange, 

 the apical area of fore wing and costal and apical areas of hind 

 wing suffused with pink. 



Larva rather stout, green above, olivaceous below ; dorsal, 

 subdorsal, lateral, and two sublateral series of black spots, the 

 subdorsal dotted with white, the sublateral with oblique yellow 

 streaks between them ; head and a band on legs black. Pupa red. 



Hah. S. and E. Europe; Madeira; Syria; Abyssinia; Aden; 

 Punjab ; Karachi ; Nilgiris ; Ceylon. Exp. 28-34 millim. 



Genus BCE0TARCHA. 



Bceotarcha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 305. 



Type, B. tcenialis, Snell., from N. Australia. 



Range. N.E. India ; Burma ; Andamans ; N. Australia. 



Palpi porrect, long, rostriform, and depressed at extremity; 

 maxillary palpi large and dilated with scales ; frons with a conical 

 prominence ; antennae thickened and flattened ; tibiae with the 

 outer spurs half the length of the inner. Pore wing long and 



