Pyralide of the Subfamily Crambinee. 285 
(546) Crambus ellipticellus, sp. n. 
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen dirty white, the two latter 
suffused with pale brown; palpi brownish at sides. Fore wing 
somewhat elliptical and rounded at apex, white, the interspaces of 
costal half and the whole inner half suffused with pale brown 
leaving an almost pure white streak from base along median ner- 
vure to outer margin; the inner half irrorated with erect black 
scales of which there are a few on costal half also; a terminal 
series of black points. Hind wing white, the apical area suffused 
with brownish. 
Hab. Navat, Estcourt (Hutchinson), 2 3 type. Hap. 
26-28 mm. 
(62a) Crambus elongatus, sp. n. 
3. Head, thorax, and abdomen white with a reddish ochreous 
tinge; antenne fuscous; palpi with some blackish at sides, white 
above and below; pectus and legs suffused with fuscous. Fore wing 
white tinged with reddish ochreous leaving the costal area pure 
white except towards base; irrorated with a few black scales espe- 
cially in submedian interspace and beyond the cell; a terminal 
series of black points to vein 8; cilia pure white. Hind wing white 
with a slight reddish ochreous tinge, the cilia pure white. Under- 
side of fore wing suffused with fuscous brown, the terminal area 
white; hind wing white, the costal area tinged with brown. 
Hab. Cutut, Chillan, 8000’ (Hlwes), 2 ¢ type. Hap. 40 mm. 
(77 a) Crambus tripartitus, sp. n. 
gd. Head white, the antenne and palpi black; thorax black 
with a cupreous gloss and with dorsal white stripe ; abdomen white 
with reddish brown hair on dorsum towards base; pectus and 
ventral surface of abdomen white suffused with cupreous brown ; 
legs cupreous black-brown, the hind tibiwe streaked with white 
above. Fore wing with the costal area cupreous black-brown; a 
silvery white stripe through the cell and thence obliquely to apex, 
a broad cupreous black-brown stripe below it; the inner area 
silvery white with some cupreous brown scales on terminal halt 
of inner margin and irroration on tornal area; a terminal series of 
black points from below apex to vein 2; cilia white with cupreous 
brown line near base except towards apex and some cupreous brown 
at tips. Hind wing silvery white. Underside with the fore wing 
and costal area of hind wing suffused with brown, leaving some 
white in and just beyond the cell of fore wing. 
Hab. Natat, Maritzburg (Burnup), 1 3 type. Hap. 24 mm. 
(77) Crambus chalcimerus, sp. n. 
¢. Head and thorax silvery white, the tegule, except dorsally, 
and patagia cupreous yellow; antenne tinged with fuscous; palpi 
dark brown mottled with white; abdomen white dorsally suffused 
with cupreous yellow towards base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface 
of abdomen with some brown suffusion. Fore wing with the 
