392 Sir G. F. Ilampson on new Pyralidte. 



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

 surface of abdomen wliite ; fore tibiae with brown band at 

 extremity. Fore wing dark brown with a metallic-blue gloss, 

 the medial area yellowish except towards costa; antemedial 

 line dark, defined by yellowish on inner side ; a quadrate 

 •white spot in end of cell defined by blackish on eacli side ; 

 postrnedial line dark, defined by yellowish on outer side, 

 expanding into a spot at costa, the line excurved between 

 veins 5 and 2, then retracted to below angle of cell ; cilia 

 with whitish line at base, wholly white above tornus. Hind 

 wing with the basal half pale yellowish, the terminal half 

 dark brown with a metallic-blue gloss ; two slight subbasal 

 black spots; a black discoidal lunule; postrnedial line dark, 

 defined by yellowish on outer side, excurved between veins 5 

 and 2 ; cilia whitish at submedian interspace. 



Hub. Nigeria, Old Calabar [Crumptoa, Sampson), 3 (^ 

 type. E^2\ 14 mm. 



(1 a.) Cataclysta euclidialis, sp. n. 



Antennae of male much longer than fore wing; fore wing 

 with a very large fovea in and below end of cell on under- 

 side ; hind wing with vein 8 becoming coincident with 7. 



(^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged in parts with 

 red. Fore wing whitish mostly suff'used with red; an 

 indistinct postmedial line from costa to vein 3. Hind wing 

 white with diffused blood-red before and beyond a white 

 ])ostmedial band which is broad from costa to vein 2, where 

 it is bent inwards, then narrower and oblique to tcrmcn at 

 vein 1. Underside of fore wing white, subbasal, antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial red marks on costa, the medial part 

 of costal area yellow ; a large triangular yellow patch from 

 costa beyond middle to vein 2 enclosing a wedge-shaped 

 white patch from costa; a triangular red patch on termen 

 between veins 5 and 2 with its apex at vein 6; hind wing 

 white with faint brownish suffusion from costa towards 

 apex. 



?. More suffused with red; hind wing wholly sufi'uscd 

 with red except the base and postmedial band, which is 

 narrower : cilia with a red line near base ; uuderside of 

 fore wing with the markings yellower and less red, yellow 

 pntchcs in middle of cell and below cell at middle and 

 extremity, the costal area yellow towards apex ; hind wing 

 with yellowish patch on middle of costa and liand acrt)ss 

 apical area. 



Hub. NiGEUi4, Old Calabar (Samjjs n), 1 J fype, Sapelc 

 {Sampson), 1 ? . Eery;. 18 mm. 



