THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[NINTH SERIES. ] 
No. 17. MAY 1919. 
XLIV.—Descriptions of New Pyralide of the Subfamilies 
Crambinze and Sigine. By Sir Georee F, Hampson, 
Bart., F.Z.S., &c. 
[Continued from p. 292. | 
(169d) Crambus acyperas, sp. n. 
2. Head white with a dorsal brown streak; antennz fuscous ; 
sides of frons, maxillary palpi at base, and palpi except above 
towards tips brown; thorax cupreous with a dorsal white stripe ; 
abdomen white suffused with brownish ochreous; legs suffused 
with brown. Fore wing cupreous rufous; a silvery white fascia 
from base through the cell confluent with an oblique wedge-shaped 
mark from apex, defined above and below by dark streaks; a silvery 
white fascia from base of inner margin to termen at vein 1, defined 
below by a dark streak and leaving some rufous on inner margin 
except towards base ; an indistinct curved rufous subterminal line 
defined on outer side by silvery whitish, interrupted by the white 
fascia, the area beyond it whitish finely pencilled with brown and 
with blackish streaks in the interspaces from below the fascia to 
below vein 2; the apex strongly produced and acutely falcate ; 
cilia silvery white with some red-brown at tips. Hind wing silvery 
white faintly tinged with brown. Underside of fore wing and 
costal area of hind wing suffused with red-brown. 
Hab. Br. EB. Arrica, Uganda Ry., Mile 478 (Betton), 5 9 type, 
E. Quaso (Betton), 1 2. Hap. 24-26 mm. 
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