On new Species o/Tyralicln?. 14:9 



longer, black with an ivory-wliitc mark near apex; tliorax. 

 more siiining ; white lines on prothorax very narrow, but 

 tnberelcs broadly white ; area of mctathorax hardl}'^ sculp- 

 tured ; teguliB entirely black. Wings dusky ; second s.m. 

 shorter; anterior tibire in front, spot at base of middle 

 tibiie, basal half oP hind tibiie_, and all the basitarsi white; 

 apical part of abdonieu above with short dark hair. 



Hub. Sydney, New South Wales, at flowers of Anyophora, 

 Nov. iil, \\)M\Fro:i<jatt, 107, in part). 



This runs to about the same place in the table as 

 P. ancorata, but is very distinct from it. Except for the 

 much shorter face, the face-markings resemble those of the 

 European P. hyulinata. 



Meror/lossa parallela var. recessiva, v. nov. 



J. — No light mark on pleura behind, tubercles; light 

 marks on scutelium absent or reduced to a small spot, on 

 postscutellum reduced to a small spot on moderately large 

 triangular mark. 



Hab. ^lackay, Queensland, at flowers of Xanthorrhcea, 

 April 1900, also taken in May {Turnery 853). British 

 Museum. 



Prosopis albonitens var. chromatica, v. nov. 



? . — Light colour of protliorax and tubercles bright 

 chrome-yc llo iv. 



Hab. Mackay, Queensland, at flowers of Xanthorrhcea, 

 May 1899 (Turner, 712, in part). British Museum. 



The mesothorax is more finely punctured than usual. 



XV. — Descriptions of new Species of Pyralidse of the Sub- 

 family Pyraustiuse. Bv Sir Geokge F. Hampson, Bart., 

 F.Z.S., &c. 



The following descriptions of new Pi/raustinee are supple- 

 mentary to my papers on the classification ol; that subfamily 

 in the 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' 1898, pp. 590- 

 761 and 1899, pp. 172-291. The numbers given refer 

 to the position of the species in the genera in those papers. 

 The types are in the British Museum, when not otherwise 

 stated. 



(4) Neurophyseta camptogrammalis, sp. n. 



Hi/drocanipa chjmenaJis, Druce, Biol, Centr.-Am., Ilet. ii. p. 275 (part.), 

 "nee Wlk. 



Fore wing with no glandular swelling on vein 1. 



