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THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGiZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



No. 118. OCTOBER 1917. 



XXX. — Descriptions of New Pyralidse of the Subfamilies 

 Hydrocampiuse, Scopariaiite, S^c. By Sir George F. 

 Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S., &c. 



[Concluded £i-om p. 216.] 



(Is) Steniafusalis, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white, the tegulse cupreous brown in 

 front, the shoidders black-brown, tlae rest of thorax with a slight 

 cupreous tinge ; antennae ringed with dark brown ; frons black- 

 brown at sides ; palpi black-brown, white at base and in front ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white, the legs 

 slightly tinged with cupreous, the fore tibiae black in front. 

 Fore wing pale red-brown with a cupreous gloss and thickly irro- 

 i-ated with dark brown, the costa darker towards base ; an indistinct 

 brown antemedial line, excurved to submedian fold and incm'ved at 

 vein 1 ; a small white spot in middle of cell and a white diseoidal 

 bar ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, excurved from discal fold to 

 vein 2, then retracted to the cell, then oblique and excurved in 

 submedian interspace ; a terminal series of black points; cilia with 

 a dark line near base. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged 

 with cupreous red-brown except towards tornus ; a blackish diseoidal 

 point ; postmedial line indistinct, dark, sinuous, bent outwards 

 between veins o and 2, then retracted and excurved to inner margin ; 

 a terminal series of black bars ; cilia tinged with red-brown at base 

 and with dark line at middle to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the lines distinct. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing whiter, slightly tinged with red-brown. 



Hub. Colombia, Sierra del Libane {H. H. Smith). 3 c? , 8 $ 

 type. Exp. 26-28 mm. 



Ann. d- Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xx. 18 



