Species o/'PyralicUe. 5 



(20 c) Sylepta parvipimcta, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown with a grcyisli 

 tinge ; palpi black, white at base ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white, the Tore tibite with blackish band. 

 Fore wing fuscous brown with a cupreous gloss ; anteniedial 

 line indistinct, whitish defined on outer side by blackish, 

 somewhat oblique from costato submedian fold ; small block 

 spots at middle of cell and on discoccllulars, the latter with 

 faint whitish marks before and beyond it ; postmedial line 

 w hitish defined on inner side by blackish, forming a tridentate 

 white mark from below costa to veiu 5, then excurved to 

 vein 2, then bent inwards to below base of cell and more 

 distinct and excurved to inner niargiu. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown with a cupreous gloss ; a blackish discoidal spot ; 

 postmedial line whitish defined on inner side by blackish, 

 beut outwards between veins 5 and 2, then inwards to below 

 angle of cell and oblique to above tornus ; cilia with a fine 

 whitish line at base and whitish tips ; the underside whitish 

 with the terminal area suffused with fuscous, the discoidal 

 luuule and postmedial line more distinct. 



Hub. Sierra Leone {Clements), 1 (J type ; Gold Coast, 

 Kumasi {W liiteside) , 1 ? . Edp. 24-26 mm. 



(22 fl) Sylepta leucographalis, sp. u. 



c? . Head and thorax fuscous mixed with greyish ; palpi 

 black, greyish at base and tips; pectus and legs whitish, the 

 fore tibiae fuscous at extremities ; abdomen with the basal 

 half grey with fuscous lines, the terminal half fuscous with 

 grey segmental lines, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing 

 fuscous brown suffused with purple ; an antemedial white spot 

 in cell and whitish band from cell to inner margin ; quadrate 

 black spots in middle of cell and on discoccllulars with a 

 quadrate white spot between them and smaller spot below the 

 cell ; postmedial line fuscous, incurved and with quadrifid 

 yellowish white patch beyond it from costa to vein 5, bent 

 outwards and slightly defined by white between veins 5 and 2, 

 then retracted to lower angle of cell and excurved to inner 

 margin, with yellowish white spot beyond it in submedian 

 intei'space and small spot above inner margin ; cilia yellowish 

 white from vein 3 to tornus. Hind wing yellowish white ; 

 some diffused fuscous below base of cell ; an oblique fuscous 

 band from upper angle of cell to above tornus ; a small dark 

 lunule beyond the cell ; the terminal area fuscous sufl'used 

 with purple, a postmedial line between veins 5 and 2 slightly 



