280 On new Pyralidse of the Subfamily Pyraustinse. 



margin ; the terminal area orange-yellow, rather broadly at costa 

 and narrowing to tornus ; a fine reddish terminal line. 



2 • Head and thorax red-brown suffused with leaden grey ; hind 

 wing red-brown suffused with leaden grey except the orange-yellow 

 terminal area and without the white markings. 



Hab. Dutch N. Guinea, Snow Mts., Oetakwa R. ( Meek), 2 J , 

 1 2 type. Exp. 24 mm. 



(4 a) Thliptoceras, xanthomeralis, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous greyish suffused with pale 

 rufous ; antenna? ochreous white ; palpi white, the 2nd joint with 

 some blackish in front, the 3rd joint and the maxillary palpi 

 blackish ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen ochreous 

 white, the fore legs suffused with brown in front. Fore wing pale 

 grey tinged with red-brown, the medial area with the costa, cell 

 and the area beyond the cell to vein 3 pale yellow ; an oblique pale 

 brown antemedial line ; a rather elongate dark brown spot in 

 middle of cell ; a yellow discoidal bar, defined at sides by rather 

 diffused brown bars ; postmedial line brown, rather oblique to 

 vein 3, then bent inwards to below angle of cell and erect to inner 

 margin ; a fine reddish brown terminal line ; cilia yellowish white. 

 Hind wing yellowish white, the basal area tinged with brown, the 

 terminal area pale grey ; an oblique brown discoidal bar ; post- 

 medial line brown, arising at vein 6, bent outwards between veins 5 

 and 2, then inwards to below angle of cell and sinuous to above 

 inner margin ; a reddish brown terminal line ; cilia yellowish white. 

 Underside yellowish white ; fore wing with the terminal area 

 suffused with brown, the markings as above but without the ante- 

 medial line and with brown streak below the cell on medial area ; 

 hind wing with discoidal lunule denned by brown, the postmedial 

 line as above, the terminal area suffused with brown to below vein 4 

 and in submedian interspace. 



Ab. 1. 2 • Wings more uniformly tinged with yellow. 



Hab. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje {Neave), § S, §2 type. 

 Exp. 20-24 mm. 



(5 d) Thliptoceras ccanthoperalis, sp. n. 



White; head, thorax, and abdomen tinged with brown; palpi 

 banded with chrome-yellow. Fore wing white, the basal area 

 tinged with chrome-yellow ; the disk irrorated strongly with 

 fuscous; an indistinct curved white postmedial line defined by 

 fuscous with a chrome-yellow spot on costa and spots beyond it on 

 costa and in submedian interspace; four terminal yellow streaks 

 on the veins towards apex with some fuscous irroration between and 

 below them; cilia fulvous brown chequered with white. Hind 

 wing white, tinged with brown towards termen ; a line interrupted 

 dark terminal line. 



Hab. Surinam, Onoribo, Paramaribo {Ellacombe). Exp. 

 14 mm. Types in Coll. Rothschild and B.M. 



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