Pyralida? of ihe Suhfamily Pjralinae. 75 



dark brown to the indistinct curved postmedial line, the terminal 

 area veiy slightly irrorated ; a terminal series of small dark brown 

 spots ; cilia with a dark brown line through them. Underside 

 yellow ; fore wing tinged and irrorated with brown to the post- 

 medial line, the terminal area slightly irrorated, more strongly 

 towards costa ; hind wing irrorated with brown to the indistinct 

 irregular postmedial line, the terminal area sparsely irrorated from , 

 costa to vein 2. ^ 



Ab. 1. Wings uniformly suffused with red and irrorated with 

 blackish ; fore wing with the postmedial line hardly traceable ; 

 hind wing with it indistinct ; the underside uniformly suffused 

 with red and irrorated wdth black, both wings with curved slightly 

 waved blackish postmedial line. 



Hah. Cameeoons, Ja E., Bitje {Bates), 3 $ type. Exp. 20- 

 24 mm. 



(7 c) Tegulifera chromalis, sp. n. 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen golden yellow suffused with 

 purplish red ; palpi yellow tinged with purplish red in front towards 

 base ; fore coxa3 and mid femora towards base deep purple, the 

 fore and mid tibiee black-brown, the tarsi black-brown ringed with 

 whitish. Fore wing golden yellow, the basal area to just below 

 the cell purplish red, the apical area from middle of costa to termen 

 at vein 1 suffused and irrorated with purplish red leaving a conical 

 almost clear yellow j^atch from postmedial part of costa to below 

 vein 5, the inner area irrorated with a few red scales ; some 3^ellow 

 points on medial part of costa ; the antemedial line represented by 

 a yellow bar from costa to median nervure ; the postmedial line 

 faint and excurved from vein 6 to 2, then incurved ; cilia glossy 

 black-brown. Hind wing golden yellow irrorated with purplish 

 red to the postmedial line and on terminal area from apex to 

 vein 4 ; an oblique curved red antemedial line joined at inner 

 margin by the curved slightly waved postmedial line ; cilia glossy 

 black -brown except towards tornus. Underside yellow^ ; fore wing 

 more evenly irrorated with red, the costa deej) purplish red with 

 pale points on it to the indistinct curved yellow postmedial line ; 

 hind wing with the costal area irrorated with red, a faint curved 

 postmedial line formed by red scales. 



Hah. Camehooxs, Ja K., Bitje {Bates), 1 6 type. Exp. 

 30 mm. 



(7 d) Tegulifera ochrealis, sp. n. 



2 . Orange-yellow. Fore wing with faint traces of curved post- 

 medial line. Hind wing rather paler. 



Hah. Masho'aland (Dohhie), 1 $ type. Exj). 20 mm. 



(9 a) Tegulifera conisalis, sp. n. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish suffused with mid 

 reddish brown ; fore tarsi dark brown ringed with whitish ; dull 



