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THE AiNNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[NINTH SERIES.] 

 No. 17. MAY 1919. 



XLIV^. — Descriptions of New Pyralidae of the Subfamilies 

 CrambiuEe ajid Siginse. By Sir George F. Hampson, 

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



[Continued from p. 292.] 



(169 d) Crambus ucyperas, sp. n. 



$ . Head Avhite with a dorsal brown streak ; antennse fuscous ; 

 sides of fi'ons, maxillary palpi at base, and palpi except above 

 towards tips brown ; thorax cupreous with a dorsal white stripe ; 

 abdomen white suffused with brownish ochi-eous ; legs suffused 

 with brown. Fore wing cupreous rirfous ; a silvery white fascia 

 from base through the cell confluent with an obHque wedge-shaped 

 mark from apex, defined above and below by dark streaks ; a silvery 

 white fascia from base of inner margin to termen at vein 1, defined 

 below by a dark streak and leaving some rufous on inner margin 

 except towards base ; an indistinct curved rufous subterminal line 

 detined on outer side b}' silverv whitish, interrupted b}- the white 

 fascia, the area beyond it whitish finely pencilled with brown arid 

 with blackish streaks in the interspaces from below the fascia to 

 below vein 2 ; the apex strongly produced and acutely falcate ; 

 cilia silvery white with some red-brown at tips. • Hind wing silvery 

 white faintly tinged with brown. Underside of fore wing and 

 costal area of hind wing suffused with red-brown. 



Kab. Bh. E. Africa, Uganda Ky., Mile 478 {Betton), 5 $ type, 

 E. Quaso {Betton), 1 $ . Exp. 24-26 mm. 



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