PYRAUSTA. 437 



5247. Pyrausta vitellinalis, Foil. HugeVs Kaschmir, iv, p. 492 ; 



0. 8f 8. no. 4081. 

 Botys extinctalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 467, pi. 9, fig. 18. 



§ . Fuscous with a fulvous tinge. Pore wing with indistinct 

 oblique antemedial line ; a black spot in cell and lunule at end of 

 it ; a postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 2, along which 

 it is retracted almost to the cell, then again excurved ; traces of a 

 curved submarginal line. Hind wing with indistinct postmedial 

 line nearly straight from costa to vein 2, where it is sharply 

 retracted. 



Hab. Kashmir ; Sikhim ; Rangoon. Exp. 30 millim. 



5248. Pyrausta eriopisalis, Wlk. Cat. six, p. 1006. 

 Glauconoe atrigenalis, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xvii, p. 95. 



S . Fuscous grey ; palpi black above, white below. Fore wing 

 with the base of costa fuscous ; an obliquely sinuous antemedial 

 fuscous line ; a black speck in cell. Both wings with a black 

 discocellular lunule and postmedial minutely dentata fuscous line 

 bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below 

 angle of cell. 



Hab. Khasis ; Borneo. Exp. 34 millim. 



5249. Pyrausta robusta, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 222, pi. 7, fig. 27 ; C. $ S. 



no. 4102. 



5 . Head and thorax dark brown, with a few ochreous scales ; 

 abdomen brown ringed with ochreous, the base ochreous. Fore 

 wing ochreous, the base brown, running out to an angle on inner 

 margin ; an antemedial brown line sending a spur outwards below 

 cell ; a brown spot in cell and quadrate discocellular spot with 

 slight brown marks beyond it ; a highly crenulate postmedial line 

 retracted at vein 2 to below angle of cell ; the area beyond it dark 

 brown, with diffused ochreous patches at costa and beyond the 

 retracted portion. Hind wing ochreous, with discocellular dark 

 band : the postmedial band broad from costa to vein 5, then bent 

 outwards and very highly crenulate to vein 2, with some dark 

 streaks in the sinus, then retracted to near lower angle of cell and 

 broad again; a diffused marginal dark band, broadest at apex, 

 narrowing between veins 5 and 2 and again at anal angle. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 38 millim. 



5250. Pyrausta griseifusa, Smnh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 153. 



$ . Straw-colour suffused with fuscous ; palpi fulvous, white 

 below. Fore wing with the costa not suffused ; an indistinct 

 oblique dark antemedial line angled on median nervure and joined 

 at inner margin by a dentate postmedial line, which is excurved 

 from vein 6 to 3, then oblique. Hind wing paler, with traces of 

 a minutely dentate curved postmedial line. 



Hab. N. Canara ; Nilgiris. Exp. 34 millim. 



