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96. Crambus seychellellii,s, sp. n. (Plate 17. fig. 4) 



6 . Exp. 23 mm. Labial palpi porrect, more than twice length of head, clothed with 

 long hair ; greyish-fuscous. Maxillary palpi triangularly scaled with long hair ; greyish- 

 fuscous. Prons rounded. Vertex with collar-like tuft of scales above and between eyes. 

 Antennae reddish-brown, with greyish appressed serrations. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 pale glistening greyish-yellow, thorax with admixture of fuscous scales especially on 

 prothorax and tegulse. Abdomen with pale yellowish anal tuft. Legs pale yellow-grey 

 irrorated with fuscous ; outer tibial spurs half length of inner. 



Fore wing with costa slightly arched, apex subrectangular, tornus well marked, termen 

 very slightly undulate ; pale greyish ; costal third thickly irrorated with pale reddish- 

 fuscous scarcely evident towards apex ; dorsal third also irrorated with pale reddish- 

 fuscous scales, which are notedly collected to form ill-defined inwardly-oblique short 

 tj-ansverse strigse commencing on dorsum at about f and h of wing-length; a sub- 

 terminal pale reddish-fuscous transverse striga, indistinct towards costa but well marked 

 on dorsal half; termea indicated in fuscous and with a few fuscous scales on termi- 

 nations of nervures : cilia whitish, pale fuscous towards base. 



Hind wing pale glistening greyish-fuscous, with long scale-pencils along base of median 

 and submedian nervures ; cilia whitish, darker along base. 



Seychelles. — Five specimens, taken at light in Port Victoria, Malie, 25 October, 1905, 

 when the species was noted as " abundant." 



97. Cirrhochrista perbrunnealis, sp. n. (Plate 17. fig. 5.) 



cJ . Exp. 25 mm. Labial palpi down-curved, about twice length of head, thickly 

 covered with long reddish-fuscous hair, third joint not visible. Maxillary palpi long ; 

 apex triangularly scaled ; red-brown. Frons oblique. Antennae ciliated (1). Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen fuscous (very mouldy). Pectus and legs shining whitish. 

 Hind wing with hair-pencil. 



Fore wing white, thickly irrorated with reddish-brown except in three subcostal 

 patches, the first rounded and subbasal, the second subtrian gular and situated between 

 ^ and J of wing-length, the third subquadrate at about f ; these patches are outlined 

 by darker red-brown scales and are very prominent ; there are also two small paler 

 specks, each rendered conspicuous by an outline of darker red-brown scales, the first 

 subdorsal at ^, the second subtornal ; cilia yellowish on termen, red-brown on dorsum. 



Hind wing white ; a narrow ill-defined red-brown transverse striga at f , expanding 

 between veins 4 and 2 into a triangular patch reaching termen ; some ill-defined 

 yellowish markings along termen on terminations of nerviires; cilia pale yellowish, 

 whitish apically. 



Seychelles. — A single specimen taken by Mr. J. A. de Gave in St. Anne Island in 

 December, 1906. It has been mouldy and is now in bad state. 



M. de Joannis records (Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 1899, p. 199) a Cirrhochrista as received 

 from Mahe, but does not describe his specimen at all ; it is probably the same species. 



Distribution. — Seychelles (St. Anne, ? Mahe). 



