Species of Pyralidaj. 7 



abdomen whitish, the fringe of hair on hind tibiae red-brown 

 on inner side. Fore wing with faint pale point in cell and 

 spot below it before the veiy indistinct antemedial line ; 

 a small pale spot in cud of cell before tlie slight dark discoidal 

 Innule with pale centre ; postmcdial line indistinct, dark, 

 slightly bent ontwards between veins 5 and 3 with two small 

 dentate white marks before it, then retracted to below end of 

 cell and erect to inner margin ; the costa pale befoi'c and just 

 beyond it. Hind wing with indistinct dark discoidal spot 

 followed by a faint pale bar before the postmcdial line, which 

 is very indistinct and diffused, forming a spot beyond lower 

 angle ol: cell, then retracted to lower angle and oblique to 

 inner margin beyond middle ; cilia with brown line near base 

 and whitish tips ; the underside whitish. 



? . Fore wing rather browner ; the point in cell and spot 

 below it more distinct ; no spot before the discoidal lunule, 

 the lower extremity of which is connected with three small 

 dentate pale marks in sinus of postmcdial line, costa not pale ; 

 hind wing with the pale spot beyond the cell more distinct, 

 the postmcdial line exeurved at median nervules, not forming 

 a spot. 



Hub. Venezuela, 1 ^ ; Fii. Guiana, Cayenne [Schaus), 

 1 (^ type, Maroni R. [Schaus), type $ in Coll. Schaus. 

 Exp., ^ 30, ? 28 mm. These may possibly be different 

 species. 



(38 a) Syhpta leucinalis, sp. n. 



$ . Head whitish suffused with cupreous brown ; palpi 

 with blackish bands at extremities of ffrstand second joints ; 

 thorax white slightly tinged with brown, the teguke with 

 fuscous patches at middle j the fore tibiie with blackish band ; 

 abdomen white with dorsal black band on third segment, the 

 terminal segments slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing- 

 white slightly irrorated with brown ; a black point at base of 

 costa, slight subbasal striga from costa and point above inner 

 margin ; antemedial line slight, dark, excurved from below 

 costa to inner margin ; small dark annuli in and below middle 

 of cell ; an oblique black discoidal bar with Avhite point in its 

 upper part and some brown suffusion below it ; postmcdial 

 line double, dentate, oblique from costa to vein 3, at vein 2 

 bent inwards to below end of cell and angled outwards above 

 vein 1, the area beyond it suffused with brown from apex to 

 vein 4 and towards tornus; a terminal series of blackish 

 strise ; cilia with dark line through them and dark points at 

 tips. Hind wing white slightly irrorated witli brown ; two 



