Sjjecies o/Pyralidee. 5 



(20 c) Sijlepta 2)arvipuncta, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown with a greyish 

 tinge ; palpi black, white at base ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white, the fore tibiee with blackish baiub 

 Fore wing fuscous brown with a cupreous gloss ; antemedial 

 line indistiuct, whitish diHued on outer side by blackij^h, 

 soQiewhat oblique from costato submedian fold ; small black 

 spots at middle of cell and on discocellulais, the latter with 

 faint whitish marks before and beyond it ; postmedial line 

 whitish defined on inner side by blackish, forming a tridentate 

 white mark from below costa to vein 5, then excurved to 

 vein 2, then bent inwards to below base of cell and more 

 distinct and excurved to inner margin. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown with a cupreous gloss ; a blackish discoidal spot ; 

 postmedial line whitish defined on inner side by blackish, 

 bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then inwards to below 

 angle of cell and oblique to above tornus ; cilia with a fine 

 Avhitish line at base and whitish tips ; the underside whitish 

 with the terminal area sufl'used with fuscous, the discoidal 

 lunule and postmedial line more distinct. 



Hub. SiEKRA Leoxe {Clements), 1 ^ type ; Gold Coast, 

 Kumasi {Whiteside), 1 ? . EA-p. 24:-26 mm. 



(22 fl) Sylepta leucographalis, sp. u. 



S . Head and thorax fuscous mixed with greyish ; palpi 

 black, greyish at base and tips; pectus and legs whitish, the 

 fore tibiffi fuscous at extremities ; abdomen with the basal 

 half grey with fuscous lines, the terminal half fuscous with 

 grey segmental lines, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing 

 fuscous brown sufl^used with purple ; an antemedial white spot 

 in cell and whitish band from cell to inner margin ; quadrate 

 black spots in middle of cell and on discocellulars with a 

 quadrate white spot between them and smaller spot below the 

 cell ; postmedial line fuscous, incurved and with quadrifid 

 yellowish white patch beyond it from costa to vein 5, bent 

 outwards and slightly defined by white between veins 5 and 2, 

 then retracted to low er angle of cell and excurved to inner 

 margin, with yellowish white spot beyond it in submedian 

 interspace and small spot above inner margin ; cilia yellowish 

 white from vein 3 to tornus. Hind wing yellowish white ; 

 some diffused fuscous below base of cell ; an oblique fuscous 

 band from upper angle of cell to above tornus ; a small dark 

 lunule beyond the cell ; the terminal area fuscous sufl'used 

 with purple, a postmedial line between veins 5 and 2 slightly 



