species of PyraliJa^. 15 



GuiAXAj Rockstone (Rodioai/), 1 c?, 1 ? ; Buazil, Amazons, 

 Para, 1 ? . Exp. 2.2-2 J. mm. 



(86 c) Sylepta pohjcymaUs, sp. n. 



Head, tliorax, and abdomen pale yellow; palpi wilii black 

 spot at end of second joint ; f'rons with black spot above ; 

 tegulfe with two brown spots, patagia with three spots ; foro 

 and mid femora at extremity and fore tibiae at extremity with 

 black bands ; abdomen with dorsal brown bands. Fore wing 

 pale yellow ; two black points on base of costal area followed 

 by a curved line, then a series of black points; an oblique 

 slightly Avaved antemedial line, followed by a brown annulus 

 from costa to median nervure and another below the cell ; a 

 brown bar from costa to lower angle of cell ; a waved post- 

 medial line bent outwards between veins 6 and 2, then retracted 

 to below angle of cell and oblique to inner margin and with 

 a waved line across its sinus between veins 6 and 2, and an 

 oblique bar from it at vein 2 to tornus ; a waved subterminal 

 line from costa to vein 5 connected with termen by a brown 

 patch between veins G and 5, some snbterminal points on 

 inner half; a strong blackish terminal line; cilia with a 

 blackish line through them. Hind wing pale yellow ; a 

 rather diffused sinuous subbasal line from subcostal nervnre 

 to inner margin ; an oblique discoidal bar and oblique line 

 from lower angle of cell to tornus ; a waved postmedial line 

 bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then oblique to above 

 tornus, with an irregularly waved line on its inner side from 

 costa to vein 2 ; a waved subterminal line from costa to 

 vein 2; a strong blackish terminal line expanding into a 

 slight patch at apex ; a brown line through the cilia. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Machakos {Craivshay), 1 J type; 

 Uganda, Gondokora {Rei/jies-Cules), 1 ? ; Br. C. Africa, 

 Zomba (Johnston), 1 ? ; Gazaland, Chirinda Forest {Mar- 

 shall), 1 c? ; Natal, Victoria district {Gooch), 1 ?, Durban 

 [Leigh), 1 c? . Ea^p. 26 mm. 



(88 c) Si/lepta str'igicinda, sp. n. 



?. Head and thorax orange-yellow; palpi red-brown 

 towards tips ; fore and mid legs suffused with red-brown; 

 abdomen clothed with white scales, the base brown, the' 

 extremity fulvous yellow. Fore wing orange-yellow ; slight 

 subbasal brownish spots in cell and above inner margin ; the 

 costa brownish to the cxcurved dark antemedial line, which 

 is incurved and obsolescent at vein 1 ; a black discoidal 

 lujiule ; postmedial line formed of small fuscous spots in the 



