Pyralide of the Subfamily Crambine. 29% 
slightly sinuous, some slight white marks beyond it on costa and 
fine white pencillings below the fascia with short black streaks in 
the interspaces before termen to the submedian fold ; a fine cupreous 
brown terminal line; cilia silvery white, tinged with cupreous 
brown at tips. Hind wing silvery white. Underside of fore wing 
white tinged with red-brown above and below the fascia which is 
faint and diffused. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 3 3, 6 2 type, Misantla 
(Trujillo), 1 2, Godman-Salvin ColJ.; Banamas, Andros (Bon- 
hote), 13. Hap. 22-24 mm. 
(167 a) Crambus ruptifascia, sp. n. 
@. Head and thorax cupreous brown; palpi white below at 
base ; abdomen white, tinged with brown at base and more strongly 
on ventral surface. Fore wing cupreous brown; a silvery white 
fascia from base through the cell, ending in a point well beyond it, 
a short white streak on costa beyond middle and an oblique wedge- 
shaped mark from apex; a curved metallic silver subterminal line 
with a golden cupreous shade before it with slight silvery streaks 
before its inner edge; short black streaks in the interspaces before 
termen from below the oblique white mark to below vein 2; cilia 
silvery white tinged with red-brown and with a red-brown line near 
base. Hind wing whitish suffused with red-brown, the cilia white 
with a red-brown line near base. Underside of fore wing brown, 
of hind wing whitish suffused with brown. 
Hab. Mexico, Milpas (Forrer), 1 2 type, Godman-Salvin Coll. 
Exp. 30 mm. 
(169 a) Crambus aureorufus, sp. n. 
3. Head and thorax cupreous red; antenne brownish ; palpi 
pale red-brown, white below; abdomen white tinged with red. 
Fore wing cupreous red, the inner area with a whitish tinge; a 
silvery white fascia from base through the cell, bidentate before 
the subterminal line and the upper tooth met by an oblique wedge- 
shaped silvery white mark from apex; a metallic silver subterminal 
line, oblique to vein 6; a series of short black streaks before termen . 
from below the oblique white mark from apex to below vein 2; a 
blackish terminal line towards apex; cilia white tinged with rufous, 
pure white towards apex. Hind wing silvery white. Underside 
with the fore wing and costal area of hind wing rufous. 
Hab. Braztn, Sio Paulo (D. Jones), 3 3 type. Hep. 26- 
30 mm. 
(169 6) Crambus brachitferus, sp. n. 
3. Head white; thorax cupreous with a white dorsal stripe ; 
abdomen white tinged with red-brown; antennz blackish; palpi 
pale brown at sides ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white ; 
legs pale brown. Fore wing cupreous; a silvery white fascia 
