2 Mr. A. J. T. Janse on new South African 



Crambus leucofascialis, sp. n. 



Female. Ground-colour of head, thorax, abdomen and wings 

 white ; palpi white on upper-, inner- and under-side, sides ochraceous- 

 buff (xv) ; maxillary palpi ochraceous-bu£E at basal half, terminal 

 half white; thorax and abdomen on underside and legs on outer- 

 side white; legs on innerside irroratcd and tinged with fuscous; 

 antennae white on upperside, fuscous at sides ; patagia ochraceous- 

 buff. Fore- wing : — greater costal half from base to termen ochra- 

 ceous-buff, tinged with clay colour (xxix) between costa and broad 

 white fascia, gradually becoming white towards inner margin; a 

 narrow costal white edging, most sharply defined at basal half and 

 edged outside with fuscous for one-fourth ; a broad white fascia from 

 base to termen with the upper edge from below upper median and 

 between veins 5 and 6, the lower edge from below lower median to 

 vein 2, where it sends a narrow white line along vein 2, then below 

 lower median to vein 3, where also a white line is given off along the 

 vein, then to termen and becoming bifurcate ; a white sprinkling on 

 veins 6 and 7 ; a white irregularly edged, narrow, gently curved line 

 from base of white fascia to tornus ; a diffused line of ground-colour on 

 16, except at base ; a fuscous terminal line ; cilia at termen with two 

 narrow fuscous- black lines and tipped with fuscous, along tornus 

 and inner margin white. Hind- wing : — white, tinged especially 

 at costal apical area with pale pinkish-buff (xxix) ; cilia white and a 

 diffused faintly coloured line across it at middle. 



Underside : — fore- wing uniformly tinged with hair-brown (xlvi), 

 lighter along costa and where the white fascia is on the upperside, 

 an almost white fascia above vein 16 and white scales at termen and 

 terminal parts of veins; cilia almost entirely white near tornus, 

 white and with two broad transverse hair-brown lines from apex 

 to tornus. Hind- wing white, very thinly sprinkled with an indica- 

 tion of a hair-brown transverse line and tipped with same colour 

 at apex. 



Exi). Female type 23 mm., four female co-types from 20-25 mm. 



Hab. Type, Pretoria, 13. i. 1915; co-types Pretoria in 

 Sept., Oct. and Feb. 1911, 1913, 1915; one badly rubbed 

 specimen from Warmberg (Zoutpansberg distr.) in Dec. 

 1903. Unfortunately only females have been secured so 

 far. 



The fore- wing is long and narrow, costa somewhat 

 arched, termen very oblique, tornus well rounded, inner 

 margin arched. Hind-wing large, termen very oblique 

 and rounded towards tornus, which is much rounded; 



