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PYEALIDiE. 
PYRALIS, Linn. 
Pyralis marmorea. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 10.) 
to P. far inalis : primai'ies with 'the basal fourth blacky with a paler basal spot; 
outer edge of basal area slightly sinuous^ bordered with white, which forms the inner boundary 
of the central belt, the latter occupying rather more than the central half of the wing, whitish, 
its outer half irregularly suffused with dull sienna-brown and speckled with black; a more or 
less pronounced black crescent in the cell ; outer border of central belt white, arched and den- 
ticulated ; costa between the two white borders narrowly black spotted with white ; external 
area blackish internally, whity brown with a submarginal series of blackish spots outwardly ; 
fringe with two smoky-brown stripes : secondaries silvery brownish white, with pale brown 
lunules towards outer margin and a marginal series of blackish-brown lunules ; fringe traversed 
by a smoky-brown stripe, and with traces of a second stripe towards anal angle : head, collar, 
and prothorax reddish brown, speckled with purplish black ; remainder of body greyish ^yhitc, 
the abdomen broadly barred with black and with red-brownish anal segment. Under surface 
silvery whitish, the markings indistinct, grey discocellular spots ; blackish marginal spots : 
primaries with the basal three fourths of costa black-spotted : body below silvery greyish, the 
tarsi and the anterior tibiae above black barred with whitish. Expanse of wings 28 millira. 
Dharmsala. 
A common species, breeding in skins &c. in the house : it is very distinct from any of the 
allied forms of the P. farinalis group : from P. elonyalis, KoUar, it differs in the much darker 
and duller colouring of the upper surface and the whitish under surface of its wings. 
Pyralis fumipennis. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 11.) 
Coloration of primaries similar to that of P. farinuUs, but the central belt much less 
irregular, its outer margin forming a regular arch from costa to below first median branch, 
below which it is >-shaped : secondaries smoky grey, with markings nearly as in P. furmalis : 
body similar to the lighter examples of P. farinalis. Expanse of wings 19 millim. 
Dharmsala. 
Only one example was in the collection; it is, however, so dissimilar from P. farinalis in 
the pattern of the primaries that it has been necessary to name it. 
Pyralis princeps. (Plate CXXXIV. fig. 1 2.) 
Primaries with the basal third, internal border, and posterior two thirds of outer border 
lilac, remainder of ground-colour golden ochi'aceous, the portion within and immediately 
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