Pyralidze of the Subfamily Pyraustine. SUT 
cox with white patches; tarsi white, the fore tarsi brown at 
extremities, the mid and hind tarsi with the basal joint brown ; 
ventral surface of abdomen with the basal segments white. Fore 
wing black-brown with a cupreous gloss; a round white spot in 
middle of cell and conjoined rather elliptical spots in and below the 
cell before extremity ; a postmedial series of five small conjoined 
white spots between veins 8 and 3, incurved below vein 7; cilia 
whitish and brown with a black line near base. Hind wing black- 
brown with a cupreous tinge; a white discoidal bar; cilia whitish 
and brown with a black line near base. 
Hab. VunxezvEtsa, Esteban Valley, Las Quiguas, 1 ¢ type. 
Hap. 22 mm. 
(13a) Pagyda retractilinea, sp. n. 
2. Head, thorax, and abdomen white ; palpi tinged with golden 
brown except in front. Fore wing white, the costal and terminal 
areas with a faint ochreous tinge; a curved yellow-brown ante- 
medial line; a slight brown mark in middle of cell and discoidal 
bar; postmedial line yellow-brown, rather oblique to vein 5, then 
erect to below vein 3, then retracted to lower angle of cell and 
rather oblique to inner margin; a curved rather indistinct and 
diffused yellow-brown subterminal line, somewhat dentate between 
veins 6 and 2; a fine yellow-brown terminal line. Hind wing 
white, the terminal area with a faint ochreous tinge; postmedial 
line yellow-brown, straight and erect to below vein 3, then re- 
tracted to lower angle of cell and rather oblique to inner margin ; 
a curved yellow-brown subterminal line, incurved at vein 3 to the 
angle of the postmedial line and ending at tornus; a fine yellow- 
brown terminal line except towards tornus; cilia tinged with 
yellow except at tips. 
Hab. Br. E. Arrica, Nairobi (Anderson), 1 2 type. Exp. 
22 mm. 
(18a) Pagyda atriplagiata, sp. n. 
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white; the tegule 
dorsally and patagia at base with black-brown spots, the patagia at 
extremities black-brown and the dorsum of thorax suffused with 
black-brown; abdomen dorsally suffused with black on medial 
segments and at extremity ; palpi with the 2nd joint black-brown 
behind; fore tibizee with black bands at extremity and the tarsi 
ringed with black. Fore wing ochreous yellow; a rather broad 
black-brown band near base and almost medial band somewhat 
dilated above inner margin ; a black-brown discoidal bar; a wedge- 
shaped postmedial black-brown patch from costa to discal fold and 
a rather conical patch from vein 4 to inner margin near tornus; a 
rather elliptical black-brown band from apex to vein 4 before 
termen ; a fine black terminal line from apex to vein 6; cilia brown 
except at base towards apex. Hind wing ochreous white; a black 
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