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angle of cell ; the cilia fuscous at base, pure white at tips. Hincl 

 wing dull straw-colour. 



Hab. Dharmsala. Exp. 30 millim. 



B. Antennae of male with a tuft of hair on inner side of basal joint, 

 the base of shaft excised, flattened, and contorted. 



5269. Pyrausta torridalis, n. sp. 



3 . Rufous brown suffused with fuscous, except the outer third 

 of wings. Fore wing with indistinct waved anteniedial line ^ 

 diffused blackish discal patch ; a minutely waved postmedial line 

 excurved from eosta to vein 2, then retracted to below angle 

 of cell and bent outwards again in interno-median interspace. 

 Hind wing with minutely waved postmedial line, excurved from 

 costa to vein 2, then obsolete ; cilia blackish from apex of fore 

 wing to vein 2 of hind wing. 



Hab. Nagas (Doherty). Exp. 28 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



C. (Gryptitia). Antennas of male with a small tooth on inner side of 

 3rd joint ; hind wing with the bases of vein 1 c and median 

 nervure fringed with long hair on underside. 



5270. Pyrausta ochracealis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1446. 



Gyptitia gonialis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxvi, p. 138, pi. 8, fig. 9 a, b. 

 Hapalia denticulosa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. hi, p. 337, pi. 183, fig. 8 ; 

 C. 8f S. no. 4087. 



Bright orange ; palpi white below. Eore wing with indistinct 

 oblique anteniedial line slightly angled below the cell ; a dark 

 speck in the cell and elongate discocellular annulus ; a sinuous 

 postmedial line much bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, along 

 which it is recurved to the angle of cell ; a diffused fuscous sub- 

 marginal dentate band bent outwards between veins 5 and 2. 

 Hind wing with reniform discocellular mark ; a postmedial line 

 much bent outwards between veins 5 and 3 ; an apical fuscous 

 patch, from which arises a diffused dentate submarginal line bent 

 outwards between veins 5 and 2 ; both wings with a series of dark 

 specks just inside the margin ; the cilia pale fuscous, with a dark 

 line through them. 



Hab. Ceylon ; Nagas ; Burma; Java; Celebes. Exp. 28 millim. 



Genus TEGOSTOMA. 



Tegostoma, Zell. Isis, 1847, p. 581. 

 Emprepes, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 360. 

 iEschremon, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 362. 



Type, T. comparale, Hiibn. 



Range. Neotropical, Nearctic, and Pahearctic regions; S. Africa - y 

 Afghanistan; N.W. Himalayas; North-western, Western, and 

 Southern India. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd joint slightly fringed with hair below, 



