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

 the fore legs brown in front. Fore wing yellow tinged with 

 rufous, especially on costal and terminal areas, irrorated and 

 in parts suffused with brown ; antemedial line brown, 

 sinuous ; a small dark spot in upper part of middle of cell 

 and a discoidal lunule with some brown suffusion beyond it; 

 postmedial line brown, defined on outer side by yellow 

 forming patches below costa and towards inner margin, 

 excurved and minutely dentate from vein 6 to 2, then bent 

 inwards to below end of cell, and angled outwards at vein 1 ; 

 an indistinct, minutely dentate, brownish subterminal line, 

 with brownish suffusion beyond it ; a terminal series of 

 minute dark lunules ; cilia with a series of brown points near 

 base and brownish tips. Hind wing yellow tinged with 

 brown except on costal area to the postmedial line, which is 

 brown and oblique from just below costa to termen at sub- 

 median fold ; the terminal area suffused with brown, nar- 

 rowing to a point at submedian fold ; the termen with a 

 series of minute dark lunules and the cilia with a series of 

 brown striae near base from apex to vein 2 ; the underside 

 with dark discoidal lunule, postmedial minutely waved line, 

 excurved from vein 5 to 2, where it terminates, and sub- 

 terminal shade from costa to vein 2. 



Hob. Mexico, Cuernavaca, Morelos (H. H. Smith), 2 ? 

 type, Godman-Salviu Coll. Exp. 22 mm. 



(150 a) Pyrausta perfervidalis, sp. n. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen fulvous yellow suffused 

 with fiery red ; palpi fuscous, white below ; frons brown, 

 with fine lateral white streaks ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen whitish. Fore wing fulvous irrorated 

 with fiery red, the costal and terminal areas broadly suffused 

 with fiery red-brown ; a diffused curved red antemedial line ; 

 a diffused fiery-red discoidal patch with whitish point in 

 centre ; postmedial line slightly excurved between veins 5 

 and 2 ; a black terminal line ; cilia blackish at base, white 

 at tips. Hind wing fulvous red, the terminal area broadly 

 red-brown ; an oblique blackish discoidal bar, with oblique 

 line from it to inner margin; an oblique postmedial line 

 from costa to the terminal band at vein 2, slightly bent out- 

 wards at vein 5 ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia blackish at 

 base, white at tips. 



Hab. Br. E. Africa, Nairobi plains (Crawshay), 1 ? type. 

 Exp. 18 mm. 



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