PYRALIDIDA5.-—CRAMBID^. 
321 
followed by a whitish dot; a long light rose-pink expansible 
snbdorsal hairpencil projecting from near base of dorsum; cilia 
pale greyish, a darker subbasal shade, on upper half of termen 
dark grey and interrupted. 
Ceylon, Galle, bred June from larva feeding on leaves of 
ChicJcrassia tabularis (Meliacece ) (Dr. J. C. Hutson ) ; 1 ex. (Brit. 
Mus.). 
Balanotis leucatma, n. sp. 
. 24-28 mm. Head, thorax ochreous-whitish suffused pale 
ochreous or brown-reddish. Palpi moderate, with appressed scales, 
greyish. Antennal ciliations 1^. Pore wings 4 and 5 closely 
approximated at base ; whitish-ochreous irregularly irrorated red- 
brownish ; basal area marked by an elongate spot of blackish 
irroration on costa from near base to near and some scattered 
black irroration in disc ; a small spot of blackish irroration on costa 
at and one on end of cell; second line formed of fine red-brown 
and blackish waved irroration, rising from a small blackish spot on 
costa at jl, running obliquely outwards to middle, obtuse-angled and 
slightly incurved to dorsum at 4, edged posteriorly by a whitish 
line and preceded in disc by an oblique patch of whitish suffusion, 
beyond this on costal half a red-brown blotch irrorated blackish 
extending to near termen: cilia whity-brownish. Hindwings 
4 and 5 nearly approximated towards base ; pale greyish, terminal | 
suffused rather darker ; cilia pale grey. 
Ceylon, Peradeniya, bred October from larvae feeding on leaves 
of Mangifera indica (Dr. J. C. Hutson) ; 4 ex. (type Brit. Mus.). 
CRAMBXDiE. 
Diatraea polyclirysa, n. sp. 
d. 14-17 mm. Head, thorax whitish or ochreous-whitish, 
facial prominence very slight, tegulae sprinkled grey or dark fuscous. 
Palpi whitish mixed grey or fuscous. Forewings rather elongate- 
triangular, costa slightly arched, termen slightly rounded, little 
oblique ; ochreous-brownish, more or less generally suffused 
ochreous-whitish except towards termen, antemedian and post¬ 
median areas of disc more or less irrorated or suffused fuscous ; 
an angulated transverse median series (representing first line) of 
5 or 6 small raised pale iridescent-golden-metallic spots from just 
beneath costa to beneath fold, smaller towards costa, more or less 
surrounded by yellowish-ferruginous suffusion; a few similar 
metallic specks and slight fuscous tinge indicating second line ; 
subterminal forming a rather curved series of minute similar 
metallic dots partially finely dark-edged, obsolete near costa ; 
a terminal series of small indistinct dark fuscous dots : cilia light 
brownish. Hindwings and cilia grey-whitish. 
vol. iv .—December 1932. 
Y 
