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Show 614 MR. F. MOORE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA OF THE [June 19, fuliginous, with a median transverse narrow white wavy band, dentated and enclosing a small spot at end of the cell; some white speckles on costa at apex and also on the cilia: hind wing pale brown ; cilia white : thorax sienna-brown, white-speckled ; abdomen brown ; palpi brown, basal points tipt with white. Legs white. Underside pale dusky brown, whitish at base of hind wing. Expanse 1 inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. RIVULA BIOCULALIS, n. sp. Pale ochry-yellow ; fore wing with five short white transverse streaks on the costa, a row of white and black dots on outer margin, two pale-bordered black dots at end of the cell one above the other, and a transverse discal curved wavy brown line. Underside paler; fore wing brownish in the middle. Expanse f inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. RIVULA OCULALIS, n. sp. Upperside-fore wing pale testaceous, fawn-colour along the costa and exterior margin ; a black spot with white centre at end of the cell; a black dot on middle of costa, and a row of pale-bordered black dots on outer margin ; cilia black: hind wing pale yellowish-white, with narrow blackish marginal line ; cilia white. Body and legs pale brown. Underside paler than above, markings the same. Expanse f inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. British Museum. Tribe PYRALES. Fam. PYRALID^E. P Y R A L I S TRIFASCIALIS, n. sp. (Plate L X . fig. 9.) Male. Upperside ferruginous ; fore wing with a white costal median band, a short oblique band at apex, and a paler white band below it to hind margin ; hind wing with a transverse discal white band, the inner margin of which is bordered with dark ferruginous. Underside-fore wing with white bands as above; three oblique subbasal ferruginous-brown-maculated bands with purple interspaces : hind wing crossed by ferruginous-brown bands, the interspaces white and traversed with short-brown strigse : legs whitish, streaked with ferruginous. Expanse 1 ^ inch. S. Andamans (Port Blair). In coll. F. Moore. PYRALIS OCHREALIS, n. sp. Ochry-yellow ; fore wing with four darker slightly wavy transverse bands, and three on the hind wing terminating at anal angle ; a darker marginal line. Body, antennae and palpi yellow. Legs ochry-brown ; fore tarsi and bands on tuft, streak beneath mid and hind tibiae, and their tarsi white. |