Pyralidse of the Subfamily Siginse. 323 



brown ; a faint oblique dark shade from apex to beyond loAver angle 

 of cell ; a terminal series of slight blackish points to vein 2. 

 Underside of fore wing and the costal area of hind wing suffused 

 with reddish brown, the rest of hind wing brownish white. 



Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria {Distant), 1 8 type. Exp. 30 mm. 



(19 5) Schoenobius ochritinctalis, sp. n. 



8 • Head and thorax white, the antennae fuscous except above, 

 the palpi reddish brown ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with 

 fulvous yellow, the 1st segment at extremity and the 2nd and 3rd 

 segments deeper fulvous yellow ; legs tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing white, tinged with ochreous especially on basal area and 

 costal area to end of cell, the costal edge fuscous towards base. 

 Hind wing silvery white. Underside of fore wing and the costal 

 area of hind wing suffused with reddish brown. 



Sab. Sierra Leone (Clements), 1 8 type. Exp. 24 mm. 



(2) Donacaula pulverea, sp. n. 



White ; head, thorax, and fore wing thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; abdomen less strongly irrorated and dorsally yellowish 

 towards base. Fore wing with black point at lower angle of cell ; 

 a curved fuscous line from apex to middle of inner margin, with 

 less irroration on each side of it towards inner margin ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing with traces of a line from apex 

 to tornus formed by slight fuscous irroration ; a terminal series of 

 black points. 



Hab. Natal, Weenen, types in Coll. Kothschild and B.M. 

 Exp., 8 24, $ 26 mm. 



(4 5) Girrhochrista annulifera, sp. n. 



Pure white ; palpi red at sides ; antennae reddish ; thorax and 

 abdomen with dorsal series of red-brown marks. Fore wing with 

 the costa fulvous irrorated with dark brown and emitting a sub- 

 basal speck and antemedial and medial triangular marks ; an 

 antemedial line arising from the 1st triangular mark, very oblique 

 to vein 1 where it is angled ; a large annulus between the 

 2nd triangular mark and tornus ; a postmedial annular fulvous 

 mark on costa emitting a line across apical area to terrnen, 

 obtusely angled inwards on vein 6 ; a terminal line with points 

 running inwards on the veins and expanding into an annulus at 

 tornus. Hind wing with terminal fulvous and dark brown line 

 joined at vein 2 by a short oblique line from vein 5. 



Hab. D'Entrecasteattx Is., Fergusson I., Goodenough I. 

 (Meek), 1 8 type. Exp. 20 mm. 



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