24 Sir G. F. Hampsoh on new 



Hab. Fergusson I. (Meek), 1 £ type ; Queensland, Mt. 

 Tambourine, 1 S • Exp. 24 mm. 



(16 a) Pyrausta atricinctalis, sp. n. 



$. Golden yellow ; palpi blackish at tips ; maxillary palpi 

 black at tips. Fore wing with round black discoidal spot ; 

 a narrow black terminal band, rather broader and diffused 

 on inner side towards apex ; cilia black. Hind wing with 

 narrow black terminal band and the cilia black from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Hab. Mashonaland (Dobbie), 1 ? type. Exp. 26 mm. 



(20 a) Pyrausta petvulgalis, sp. n. 



Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi and sides of frons rufous, the former white at base ; 

 fore legs rufous ; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing 

 ochreous, the costal area slightly tinged with rufous ; an 

 indistinct oblique sinuous antemedial line ; a faint dark spot 

 in middle of cell and discoidal bar ; postmedial line in- 

 distinct, dark, excurved and minutely dentate from vein 6 

 to 3, then retracted to below end of cell and sinuous to inner 

 margin ; a terminal series of slight dark striae. Hind wing 

 ochreous white ; an indistinct brownish postmedial line, 

 excurved and minutely waved between veins 5 and 2, then 

 obsolete ; traces of a somewhat diffused subterminal line 

 from costa to vein 2 and of a fine terminal line. 



Hab. Japan, Satsuma (Leech), 2 $ type, Nagasaki (Leech), 

 1 ? ; C. China, Ningpo, 1 ? , Foochow (Leech), 1 £ , 1 ? , 

 Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 S ; W. China, Chang-yang (Pratt), 

 1 $ . Exp. 26-30 mm. 



(30 a) Pyrausta thermicruralis, sp. n. 



Bright straw-yellow ; palpi rufous, white below ; sides of 

 frons and shoulders tinged with rufous ; pectus and legs 

 white, the femora rufous, fore tibiae rufous at extremities, 

 the mid tibiae rufous above. Fore wing with the costal area 

 slightly tinged with rufous; a slightly sinuous antemedial 

 rufous line bent inwai'ds to costa ; a discoidal lunule ; post- 

 medial line arising from below costa, excurved and minutely 

 waved to vein 3, on which is an oblique streak connecting it 

 with lower angle of cell, then bent inwards to below angle of 

 cell and erect to inner margin ; a rufous terminal line and 

 the cilia rufous. Hind wing with slight oblique postmedial 



