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VII. Ncvj Pcdxardic Pyralidse. By Sir Geoiige F. 

 Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S., etc. 



[Read May 2nd, 1900.] 



Plate III. 



In view of the approaching publication of a new edition of 

 the Catalogue of Palsearctic Lepidoptera which is now in 

 the press, Dr. O. Staudinger asked me to work out the unde- 

 termined Pyralidie in his collection, among which I find 

 the following new species. The species marked with an (*) 

 are not in the British Museum Collection, but when not 

 figured on the plate are represented by a coloured sketch, 

 those without mark have the type in Coll. Staudinger and 

 a co-type in Brit. Mus., Avhile those marked with a (f) have 

 the type in Brit. Mus. The numbers before the species refer 

 to my papers on the classification of the Pyralidx, and 

 indicate where the species should be placed in their several 

 genera. 



CRAMBINiE. 



(4a.) Cramhus scrraticomis, n. sp. 



$ Antenna} strongly serrate. 



Pale grey slightly tinged with brown. Forewing with some 

 black scales near base of inner margin ; a sub-basal wedge-shaped 

 patch of black scales on vein 1, traces of a medial dentate whitish 

 band across end of cell, then bent inwards and angled in submedian 

 fold, defined on each side by some black and brown scales ; a whitish 

 minutely dentate postmedial band strongly excurved below costa, 

 then oblique and angled outwards in submedian fold, defined on 

 inner side by a dark line and on outer by some brown suffusion ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia che(|uered brown and white. 

 Hindwing with obscure fuscous terminal band ; cilia white with 

 a brownish line through them. 



Expanse 22 millim. 



Type in Coll. Staudinger. 

 Hah. Syria, Jordan R. 



(49a.) Cramhus dalmatmellus, n. sp. (Stgr. MS.) 

 ^ Head and thorax ochreous irrorated with large brown scales ; 

 forelegs tinged with fuscous ; abdomen ochreous. Forewing ochreous 

 yellow irrorated with large brown scales these being very few on costal 

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