Pyralidae of the Subfamily Crambinas. 141 



(1 a) Ancylolomia castaneata, sp. n. 



6 • Head and thorax glossy black-brown ; abdomen rufous with 

 a cupreous gloss ; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 red-brown suffused with blackish. Fore wing chestnut-brown, the 

 inner half to near termen and a postmedial shade except at costa 

 fuscous brown ; a black streak in the cell with some silvery scales 

 above it, two short streaks beyond the cell, and a short streak 

 in submedian fold below end of cell; a slightly sinuous dark 

 subterminal line with some silvery scales on it ; a series of black 

 points before termen ; cilia with a dark line at base. Hind wing 

 pale reddish brown. Underside greyish tinged Avith red-brown. 

 Hab. Transvaal, White E. {Cooke), 2 6 type. Exp. 32 mm. 



(1 b) Ancylolomia melanella, sp. n. 



Head and thorax black-brown ; abdomen greyish dorsally tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing black-brown ; cupreous fasciae with streaks 

 of black scales on them in the cell, on the veins for some distance 

 beyond it and in submedian interspace ; silvery streaks above 

 median nervure, in the interspaces beyond the cell for some 

 distance and below submedian fold ; a whitish terminal band with 

 series of fuscous and black points on it, defined on inner side by 

 silvery and brown lines and angled at vein 3 ; cilia black with pale 

 tips. Hind wing white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 

 in male, in female the costal area only tinged with brown. 



Hab. " Germ. E. Africa," Dar-es-Salaam, 1 $ ; Natal, Maritz- 

 burg (Queckett), 1 d type. Exp. 30 mm. 



(1 d) Ancylolomia perfasciata, sp. n. 



3 . Head and thorax golden cupreous with a black streak on 

 vertex of head and thorax and fascia at sides of tegular and patagia, 

 the outer edge of base of patagia white ; abdomen white with some 

 fulvous at base of dorsum and forming slight segmental lines ; 

 antennae tinged with black ; pectus and legs white, the latter 

 tinged with golden cupreous ; ventral surface of abdomen with 

 subventral and ventral cupreous streaks. Fore wing golden 

 cupreous ; a blackish fascia through the cell to the subterminal 

 line, rather diffused beyond the cell, and another on basal half 

 of vein 1, then in submedian interspace to the subterminal line ; 

 streaks of black scales through the cell, in terminal half of sub- 

 median fold and on the veins beyond the cell ; silvery streaks above 

 median nervure, above and below terminal half of submedian fold 

 and in the interspaces beyond the cell to the subterminal line, 

 which is double, silvery blackish filled in with orange-yellow, 

 oblique towards apex, then minutely dentate to vein 3 where it 

 is angled outwards, then incurved ; a silvery blackish line before 

 termen, arising before apex, slightly waved to below vein 4 where 

 it is interrupted and oblique from below vein 3 ; cilia silvery fuscous 



