Species q/'Pyraliilre. 439 



straight from costa to vein 5, where it is bent outwards and 

 minutely dentate to vein 2, then retracted to below end of 

 cell ; a rather darker line at base of cilia. 



Hub. LouisiADDs, St. Aignau {Meek), 1 ^ type. Ea^p. 

 28 mm. 



(33 a) NacoJeia epipaschiaVis, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax reddish brown ; palpi with the third 

 joint black in front and behind, whitish at middle ; black 

 ])oints behind antennae ; abdomen brown ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen whitish, the fore tibia3 brown 

 and fuscous, the tarsi brown Avith slight pale rings. Fore 

 wing pale reddish brown^ slightly irroratod with dark brown ; 

 a blackish streak on base of inner margin; antemedial line 

 represented by an oblique black bar on inner area ; a tri- 

 angular black spot in end of cell; an oblique black discoidal 

 lunule with white lunule on its outer edge ; postmedial line 

 black, dentate, oblique from costa to vein 3, then obsolete ; 

 subterminal line represented by diffused obsolescent black 

 lunules above veins 7, 6 and prominent lunules between 

 veins 5 and 2; a terminal series of small black spots con- 

 joined by a line; cilia ochreous white with series of slight 

 brown spots. Hind wing pale fuscous brown, the costal 

 area whitish ; cilia whitish with a diffused dark line through 

 them ; the underside dirty white, the inner half suffused 

 •with brown. 



Huh. S. Leone (Clements), 1 ? type. E.ip. 28 mm. 



(35 c) Nacoleia pervulgalis, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale red-brown mixed with 

 fuscous; palpi fuscous, -nhitish at base; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing pale red- 

 brown thickly irroratcd with fuscous except on costal area ; 

 antemedial line black, obliquely excurved to submedian fold 

 and slightly incurved at vein 1 ; a black point in middle of 

 cell and oblique discoidal bar; postmedial line black, 

 minutely waved, excurved between veins 6 and 3, then 

 retracted to below end of cell and erect to inner margin ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale reddish 

 brown thickly irroratcd with fuscous ; an oblique black 

 discoidal striga ; postmedial line black, excurved and 

 minutely waved between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to 

 below end of cell and oblique to tornus ; a terminal series of 

 black points ; the underside paler, a black striga in middle 



