THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[NINTH SERIES.] 



No. 4. APLIIL 1918. 



XXX. — Descriptions of New Pyralidae of the Subfamily Py- 

 raustiiice. By Sir George P. Hamfson, Hurt., P.Z.S., 



&c. 



[Continued from p. 262."] 



(•31 b) Sylepta brurmeiterminalis, sp. n. 



o* . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish; 

 abdomen yellowish tinged with rufous, a blackish band on 1th 



segment, the four terminal segments blackish, the genital tufts 

 white ; antennas brown ; palpi black-brown, white in front to near 

 extremity of 2nd joint ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdo- 

 men white tinged with brown, the fore femora and tibiae and mid 

 tibiae above fuseous brown. Fore wing ochreous yellow, tin- base, 

 costal and medial areas suffused with red-brown, the terminal area 

 broadly dark reddish brown glossed with grey : a curved dark 

 brown antemedial line; dark brown spots at middle and end of 

 cell ; postinedial line dark brown, rather oblique todiscal fold, bent 

 outwards between veins 5 and '3, then curved upwards to median 

 nervure before end of cell and oblique to inner margin ; the inner 

 edge of the dark terminal area rather bent outwards between 

 veins o and 3 ; cilia glossed with leaden grey and with a line 

 whitish line at base. Hind wing oehreous yellow, the basal area 

 suffused with brown, the terminal ana broadly dark reddish brown 

 glossed with grey; a dark discoidal bar; postinedial line dark 

 brown, strong, bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then retracted 

 to lower angle of cell and oblique to inner margin ; the inner edge 

 of the dark terminal area bent outwards between veins 5 and '2, 

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