Pyralidee of the Subfamily Crambina*. 65 



and black ; two slight black spots beyond the cell ; subterminal 

 line white defined on each side by red-brown with slight black 

 marks before it below costa and at middle, obliquely excurved to 

 discal fold, then incurved and slightly angled outwards at vein 1, 

 a series of white spots beyond it from costa to vein 2 with short 

 black streaks between them ; the terminal area red-brown finely 

 pencilled with white ; cilia white with a red-brown line through 

 them and red-brown tips to the hook, then white with the tips 

 tinged with red-brown. Hind wing white slightly tinged with 

 red-brown ; a red-brown terminal line to submedian fold ; cilia 

 pure white. Underside of fore wing brown with a series of diffused 

 white spots before termen ; hind wing with the costal area tinged 

 with brown. 



Sab. Tkansvaal, Gremsbokfontein (Jctnte), 1 8 , llietfontein 

 (Janse), 2 8 , 1 $ t}'pe, Van der Merwe's farm (Janse), 1 8 ; 

 Natal, Durban (Leigh), 1 8 , 1 $ ; Orange K. Colony, Bloem- 

 fontein (Eckersley), 2 8 . Exp. 24-26 mm. 



(4 c) Prionopteryx mesozonalis, sp. n. 



2 . Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with white ; abdo- 

 men white dorsally tinged with red-brown towards base ; palpi with 

 some blackish mixed ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 white tinged with red-brown, the tarsi red-brown ringed with 

 white. Fore wing white mostly suffused with red-brown and 

 irrorated with blackish ; an oblique red-brown antemedial line, 

 arising below the costa and with some black before it in the cell ; 

 a white medial line defined on outer side by black and on inner by 

 a diffused black band, angled outwards in the cell and waved below 

 it ; a black discoidal point ; postmedial line white, defined on inner 

 side by blackish and with a black patch beyond it on costa, angled 

 outwards at discal fold, then incurved and angled inwards at vein 1 ; 

 a highly dentate white subterminal line with short black streaks 

 beyond it in the interspaces from below costa to vein 1 ; cilia white 

 with a line near base, black to the hook, then red-brown, and 

 blackish line near tips. Hind wing silvery white with a very faint 

 red-brown tinge. Underside of fore wing and costal area of hind 

 wing tinged with red-brown. 



Sab. Argentina, Gran Chaco, Florenzia (Wagner), 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 26 mm. 



(4y) Prionopteryx albintfalis, sp. n. 



2 . Head and thorax white mixed with some red-brown ; abdo- 

 men white slightly tinged with red-brown ; antennae ringed with 

 blackish ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the 

 fore tibia3 and the tarsi banded with red-brown. Fore wing white 

 irrorated with red-brown ; some black irroration on antemedial area 

 from below costa to inner margin, somewhat angled outwards in 

 the cell ; a somewhat dentate white medial line defined on outer 



