Pyralidoe of the Subfamily Pyraustinse. 253 



white tinged with fulvous yellow. Fore wing fulvous yellow, the 

 inner half tinged with brown, the terminal half suffused with grey- 

 brown ; antemedial line rather diffused, brown, oblique, arising 

 below the costa ; a small brown spot in upper part of middle of cell 

 and discoidal bar ; postmedial line rather diffused brown defined on 

 outer side by yellowish, excurved to above vein 2, then retracted to 

 lower angle of cell and excurved above inner margin ; cilia whitish 

 at tips. Hind wing fulvous yellow tinged with brown, the costal 

 area white to beyond middle, the inner area whitish, the terminal 

 area suffused with brown except towards torn us ; an oblique brown 

 discoidal bar ; postmedial line rather diffused brown, arising below 

 costa, oblique to above vein 2, then retracted to lower angle of cell, 

 then oblique to submedian fold where it terminates ; cilia whitish 

 at tips. 



Ab. 1. More suffused with brown ; fore wing with the costal 

 area yellowish, narrowing to the costal edge towards base. 



Hah. Be. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 5 tf, 5 $ type. 

 Exp. 26-30 mm. 



Pitpce in colonies in silken cocoons in rolled up leaves. 



(57 b) Lamprosema chrysanthalis, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with some greyish, 

 the last with yellow dorsal patches except at base and extremity ; 

 antenna? ringed with yellow ; palpi yellow at base and with yellow 

 ring at extremity of 2nd joint ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen pale yellowish white, the fore tibise with black-brown 

 bands at base and extremity. Fore wing golden yellow ; the basal 

 area dark brown mixed with some greyish ; small obliquely placed 

 mellow subbasal spots in and below the cell ; antemedial line black- 

 brown with some yellow before and beyond it on the costa and 

 defined on inner side by yellow below the cell, excurved to median 

 nervure and above inner margin and incurved in submedian inter- 

 space ; the medial area with some dark brown suffusion below costa 

 conjoined to a large black-brown discoidal spot filled in with leaden 

 grey and with its upper extremity produced and a spot beyond its 

 lower extremity ; postmedial line black-brown, incurved below 

 costa, then waved to vein 5, then excurved to vein 2 on which it 

 is retracted to below end of cell, angled outwards at submedian 

 fold and oblique to inner margin ; the terminal area with a large 

 irregular black-brown patch from costa to vein 4, its inner ed^e 

 dentate to the postmedial line be} r ond which it encloses yellow 

 spots, its outer edge incurved and enclosing a yellow patch on 

 termen between veins 7 and 5, a short subterminal streak on vein 3 

 and a bar from the postmedial line at vein 2 to inner margin; a 

 terminal series of black-brown bars ; cilia intersected by black-brown 

 bars at and below apex, at veins 4 and 3, and with spots at base at 

 veins 2 and 1. Hind wing golden yellow; a black-brown discoidal 



