444 . PYRALIDE. 



the 3rd naked ; maxillary palpi minute and filiform ; frons with a 

 large flat corneous plate excised in front ; antennae of male ciliated; 

 legs smoothly scaled. [Fore wing long and narrow ; male with a 

 slight fovea on underside above the base of vein 7, which is bent 

 downwards ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 

 6 from below upper angle. Hind wing with vein 3 from before 

 angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anasto- 

 mosing with 8. 



5271. Tegostoma COmparale, Hubn.Samml.eur.Schmett.,Pyr. fig. 126. 

 Pvralis glaucinalis, Hubn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. fig. 127. 

 Pyralis tenebrosalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1235 ; C. $ 8. no. 4467. 

 Scopula fotalis, Swinh. P. Z. 8. 1885, p. 875, pi. 57, fig. 9 ; C.fyS. 

 no. 4150. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey suffused with fuscous brown. 

 Fore wing grey suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; 



dark spots at middle and end o£ 

 cell : a dark medial band from me- 

 dian nervure to inner margin ; a 

 dark postmedial spot on costa, with 

 an irregular line highly excurved 

 between veins 7 and 4 arising from 

 it ; a marginal series of dark specks. 

 Fig. 236. Hind \i ing pale, with the marginal 



Tegostoma comparale, tf . \. area suffused with fuscous, or wholly 



suffused with fuscous ; a curved 

 dark postmedial line from costa to vein 2, where it is crossed by a 

 pale patch. 



The amount of grey, brown, or fuscous suffusion on fore wing 

 varies greatly. 



Hah. Mediterranean subregion ; N.W. Himalayas ; Poona ; 

 Coimbatore. Exp., <5 16-20, $ 20-22 millim. 



5272. Tegostoma flavidum, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 371 ; C. $ 8. 



no. 1892. 



c? . Head, thorax, and fore wing pale lemon-yellow ; abdomen 

 white tinged with fuscous towards extremity. Fore wing with 

 indistinct medial and postmedial red lines, the former obsolete 

 towards costa, the latter bent inwards. Hind wing cupreous 

 fuscous, pale at base. 



Hah. Allahabad ; Punjab. Exp. 16 millim. 



Genus NOCTUELIA. 



Noctuelia, Gum. Belt, fy Pyr. p. 113 (1854). 

 Aporodes, Guen. Delt. fy Pyr. p. 159. 



Type, N. superba, Err., from "W. Asia and Persia. 



Range. Palaearctic region ; N. and W. India. 



Differs from Tegostoma in the palpi typically being fringed with 

 long hair below ; the' frons with a rounded prominence and no 

 bilobed corneous plate ; mid tibiae fringed with spinous hair. 



