458 Sir G. F. Ilampson on neio Pyralidse 



Hind wing bronze-yellow suffused in parts with fuscous ; an 

 ill-defined whitish subbasal band ; an antemedial quadrate 

 white patch defined by black from costa to median nervure, 

 with a narrow white band defined by black from it to inner 

 margin; a postmedial curved white band defined by black 

 from costa to vein -i, its inner edge sinuous and expanding 

 at and below costa, and a curved white band defined by black 

 from below end of cell to inner margin ; a subterrainal 

 maculate white band defined by black formed by a subapical 

 spot; three conjoined spots between veins 7 and. 4 aud two 

 spots towards tornus. 



Hub. Cape Colony, Annshaw {Miss F. Barrett) , 1 ? type. 

 Kxp. 16 mm. 



(12^.) Ambia melanaUs, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with 

 some whitish ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen white. 

 Fore wing black-brown, suffused with greyish and tinged 

 with yellowish in places ; an antemedial white spot on costa 

 with slight oblique sinuous whitish line from it to inner 

 margin ; a slight white discoidal lunule defined by black ; a 

 l)ostmedial white spot on costa. with excurved line from it 

 to vein 4, then almost obsolete and retracted to a white 

 ])atrh on inner area below end of cell; a white subapical 

 ])oint and slight subtcrminal line between veins 7 and 4 ; 

 cilia black intersected with white in places. Hind wing 

 black-brown tinged with yellowish and slightly suffused with 

 grey ; two small w bite spots at end of cell ; postmedial line 

 represented by a white bar from costa and traces of a line 

 towards tornus ; a white terminal line from costa to vein 6 

 angled outwards at apex. 



Hab. Cape Colow, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 1 ? type. 

 Exp. 14 mm. 



(27 a.) Ambia phauchroalis, sp. n. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown mixed with 

 some white ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 mostly white. Fore wing fuscous brown, the postmedial 

 and terminal areas with a yellowish tinge : a slight white 

 subl)asal line, angled outwards in cell, where it is produced 

 to a short streak ; antemedial line white, angled outwards 

 just below cell ; a small white spot below middle of costa ; a 

 black discoidal spot, with two slight white streaks beyond it 

 and others, more minute and further from cell, above veins 

 G, 7 ; postmedial line white defined on each side bv blackish, 



