On new Pyralidse of the Subfamily Crambinse. 137 



pale spot enclosed on the union of the two lower apical areas; 

 wings fuscous, the venation sanguineous, the marginal fringe 

 pale hyaline ; pronotal lateral angles prominently broad and 

 acute; head including eyes a little more than two-thirds the 

 width of base of mesonotum ; rostrum passing the posterior 

 trochanters; opercula (in <J ) short, broadly rounded, their 

 inner angles almost uniting; nice centrally longitudinally 

 and on each side strongly transversely sulcate. 



Long., £ , 30 (excl. tcgm.) ; exp. tegm. 100 mm. 



Hob. French Central Africa ; Tubuii Marsh (P. A. 

 Talbot). 



XXI. — Descriptions of New Pyralidze of the Subfamilies 

 Crambinse and Siginae. By Sir George F. Hampson, 

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



[Continued from p. 68.] 

 (3 c) Surattha rubrifitsalis, sp. n. 



c? . Head and thorax white tinged with red-brown, the former 

 faintly ; abdomen white slightly tinged with red-brown ; antennae 

 black ; palpi tinged with red-brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white faintly tinged with red-brown, the fore 

 tibiae and tarsi suffused with red-brown, the mid and hind tarsi 

 banded with red-brown. Fore whig white suffused with pale red- 

 brown and slightly irrorated with black, especially on basal and 

 costal areas ; a short diffused black fascia below base of cell ; an 

 indistinct diffused curved black antemedial line ; a black bar from 

 middle of costa and point above vein 1 ; a black fascia in and just 

 beyond end of cell with a white discoidal spot on it ; a white sub- 

 terminal line defined on inner side by blackish, excurved below vein 

 6, then faint ; a terminal series of blackish points ; cilia white with 

 a brown line through them. Hind wing white faintly tinged with 

 red-brown. Underside of fore wing tinged with red-brown. 



2 • Thorax and fore wing strongly suffused with red-brown. 

 Hnb. Be. E. Afeica, Manda I. {Jackson), 1 6 , 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 22 mm. 



(3 d) Surattha phceomesa, sp. n. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish suffused with brown and 

 some rufous, the abdomen more rufous towards base of dorsum ; 

 antennae fuscous ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 white tinged with brown. Fore wing greyish suffused with brown 

 and some rufous, the costal area almost entirely white, extending on 

 outer half of medial area to the median nervure and vein 4, the 



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