Pyralidse of the Subfamily Crambinse. 149 



white. Hind wing white suffused with brown. Underside white 

 suffused with red-brown. 



Sab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall), 2 6 type. Exp. 

 26-28 mm. 



(23 e) Prosmixis albofascialis, sp. n. 



6 . Head and thorax whitish suffused with red-brown ; abdomen 

 white tinged with red-brown, the 2nd segment with a dorsal rufous 

 band ; antennae black ; pectus and legs white tinged with red-brown. 

 Fore wing whitish suffused with red-brown ; a creamy white fascia 

 in submedian interspace to below end of cell with a rufous streak 

 below it on medial area ; some white in terminal half of cell with 

 some rufous scales on it at middle of cell and a rufous discoidal 

 bar ; an indistinct whitish postrnedial line, strongly excurved from 

 costa to vein 3, then incurved and with a rufous mark before it below 

 vein 2; some slight dark points on termen. Hind wing white 

 tinged with red-brown, the inner half of hind wing whiter. 



Hub. Transvaal, Piet Reteif (Craivshay), 1 d type. Exp. 

 30 mm. 



(26 a) Prosmixis molybdella, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish white suffused with pale 

 reddish brown ; head above and 1st segment of abdomen whiter, 

 Fore wing ochreous white, the basal area with obscure fuscous 

 streaks in and below the cell and a dark brown streak above vein 1 ; 

 a medial brown line produced to very long points on costa, in and 

 below the cell and to a shorter point on vein 1, the area beyond it 

 suffused with leaden grey except towards costa and with some white 

 in submedian fold ; a double brown subterminal line filled in with 

 ochreous, strongly dentate inwards below costa then with dentitions 

 which increase in length to vein 2 ; the terminal area with some 

 white scales ; slight brown points on a fine terminal ochreous line, 

 Hind wing yellowish white with a fuscous tinge ; cilia pure white, 

 Jlab. Orange R. Colony, Bloemfontein (Eckersiey), 2 d , 

 Kronstadt (Eckersiey), 3 6 ; Cape Colony, Annshaw (Miss P. 

 Barrett), 1 r? type, Grahamstown, 1 $ . Exp. 26-30 mm. 



(26 b) Prosmixis albiceps, sp. n. 



5 . Head white with a few pale brown scales ; thorax and abdo- . 

 men brown mixed with whitish ; antennae tinged with brown ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing reddish brown mixed with grey-white; blackish 

 subbasal streaks above and below vein 1 ; a dentate black medial 

 line strongly angled outwards at discal and submedian folds and 

 defined on inner side by white except towards costa ; subterminal 

 line white defined on each side by blackish, dentate, angled inwards 

 at discal fold and above and below vein 3 ; a slightly waved dark 

 brown terminal line ; cilia white with dark lines near base and 



