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Pyralidae 



Schoenobiinae 



CiRKHOcHRiSTA Lecleiei" 



(697) 1. Cirrhochrista species near ? C. brizoalis Walker 



(Cf. List Lep. Het. B. M., XIX, p. 976j (an eadem?) 

 There is one specimen caught at Banana, June 21, 1909. The 

 insect is plainly referable to the subfamily Schoenobiina? and to the genus 

 Cirrhochrista Lederer. It agrees best upon the whole with the descrip- 

 tion given by Walker of the species cited above, but, as that species has 

 hitherto only been reported from the Indo-Malayan subregion, I hesi- 

 tate to declare the identity of our specimen with the form named b,y 

 Walker, though it may be the same. I cannot just now lay my hands 

 upon Indo-Malaj^an specimens for comparison, though I think we have 

 some in our collections, which are at the moment inaccessible. 



In the markings of the wings this insect agrees absolutely with the 

 insect named Cirrhochrista saltusalis bj' Schaus and Clements (cf. Lep. S. 

 Leone, 1893, p. 43, PI. iii, fig. 7). Of the latter insect we have a long 

 series, but it is not a Cirrhochrista, though referred to this genus by the 

 authors of the species. It does not have the porrect palpi, which are 

 characteristic of the genus Cirrhochrista and which are marked features 

 of the specimen upon which I am reporting. It is plain that in the case 

 of the insect from Sierra Leone, of which we also have many from the 

 French Congo and Cameroon, we are dealing with a form in which there 

 is parallelism in markings, with positive difference in structure. There is 

 occasion here for further study and investigation. 



Pyralinae 

 Herculia Walker 



(698) 1. Herculia species (?) 



There is a solitary specimen taken at Banana, June 21, 1909, which 

 seems to be referable to this genus, rather than to any other, but I am 

 not sure of the genus. I have never seen the species before and am 

 unable to find a recognizable description of it in the literature of the 

 subject. The insect recalls the color and markings of a species in my 

 collection to which I affixed the note some years ago "Furcivena sp.? 

 not in B. M." but, while the color and markings are almost identical^ 

 the same, the form of the wings is altogether different and quite in 

 agreement, in the case of the insect upon which I am reporting, with the 

 form and neuration of Herculia. 



