158 Sir G. F. Hampson on 



Head and body (c.) ^00 raillim. ; tail 75; liind foot 100; 

 ear 136. 



Skull : greatest length 82 ; greatest breadth 41 ; breadth 

 of maxillte below lachrymals 28 ; length of nasals, middle 

 line 28, greatest length 35, greatest breadth 20'2, across nar- 

 rowest part 13'5 ; intertemp. constr. 12; basal length fil ; 

 length of upper molar series (tooth-sockets) 14'5; de|jth from 

 top of nasals to palate immediately in front of premolars Vi)'5, 

 above front of palatal foramina 15*5; mandible, length (bone 

 only) from back of condylar ])rocess to ujjperside of back of 

 incisors 60, upj^erside of back of incisors to angle o^ ; 

 greatest height standing on table perpendicularly to con- 

 dyle 37. 



There are two specimens of this hare in the British 

 Museum, presented by the same collector as the type speci- 

 men, labelled " Island of Kerkenna, off Tunis." The specific 

 name is the genitive of Tuneta, the earlier form of Tunis. 



XXVI. — On a Collection of Heterocer a made in the Transvaal *. 

 By Sir Geoege F. Hampson, Bart., B.A. 



Pyralidae. 



Lamoria imbella, Wlk. xxx. 955. 

 Pretoria. 



CsAMBIA-^^. 



Crambus {Propexus) tenuistriga, sp. n. 



Head and thorax pale brownish ; abdomen whitish. Fore 

 wing brassy yellow, with a fine white stripe slightly defined 

 by fuscous from base through the cell to tcrmen below apex ; 

 traces of dark points beyond lower angle of cell and of a sub- 

 terminal series ; a more prominent terminal scries. Hind 

 wing whitish. 



Boh. Pretoria (Distant), numerous specimens. Exjy. 24 

 millim. Type in B. M, 



llie only Crvndms with pectinated antenna3 recorded from 

 the Old World. 



* [I am indebted to Sir George Ilnnipson for thus working out the 

 collection of Pjralidpp I made in tbe Triinsvaal during the years 1893-90. 

 The species were almost all taken at I'retoria, ai:d I have added the 

 names of fifteen others taken duiing my first vij.it (lb90-91) and oi e 

 which I recently described in these pages. — W. L. Distant.] 



