36 Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



whitish suffused with brown ; some purplish pink on terminal 

 part of vein 2; a fine black terminal line ; cilia whitish. 

 Hab. W. Colombia, El Credo, 1 £ type. Exp. 14 mm. 



(183 a) Pyrausta rubescentalis, sp. n. 



Head and thorax yellowish suffused with dull red ; palpi 

 fulvous, white below ; frons with lateral white streaks ; 

 abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused with fuscous ; pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing dull 

 crimson more or less strongly suffused and irrorated with 

 fuscous ; the costa towards apex, termen, and cilia bright 

 yellow ; a slightly curved yellow antemcdial line ; slight dark 

 spots at middle of cell and on discocellulars ; postmedial 

 line yellow, excurved and slightly waved from costa to 

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

 inner margin. Hind wing yellowish more or less strongly 

 suffused with fuscous, the termen reddish, the cilia yellow ; 

 traces of a curved yellowish postmedial line between veins 5 

 and 2 ; the underside with faint dark discoidal spot, the 

 postmedial line traceable throughout, excurved between 

 veins 5 and 2. 



Hab. Paraguay, Sapucay (Foster), 1 £ ; Argentina, 

 Florenzia, Gran Chaco (Wagner), 2 <$ type. Exp. 16 mm. 



(183 d) Pyrausta rhodope, sp. n. 



$ . Head and thorax yellow mixed with purplish red ; 

 palpi red, white at base, the third joint brown; pectus 

 and legs white, the fore and mid tibiae and the tarsi banded 

 with red ; abdomen with the basal segments yellowish white, 

 the terminal segments red with a dorsal silvery-white spot 

 at base of anal segment, the ventral surface white. Fore 

 wing yellow, the costal area suffused with purplish red, some 

 purplish red on inner ai'ea near base ; antemedial line 

 purplish red, oblique to submedian fold, then incurved; an 

 annulus in middle of cell and elliptical discoidal mark defined 

 by purplish red ; the outer part of medial area suffused with 

 purplish red to the postmedial line, which is oblique to discal 

 fold, then waved and incurved below vein 3, a curved band 

 of red suffusion beyond it from costa to termen at discal 

 fold ; a terminal series of brown points ; cilia purplish red. 

 Hind wing white, the terminal area suffused with brown, 

 broadly at costa, narrowing to tornus. Underside white, 

 the fore wing with reddish suffusion on costal half of 

 terminal area. 



