Species of Pyralidae. 301 



not reaching costa, but bent round to the spots in end of 

 cell, a rounded spot below and beyond it between veins 5 

 and 2, and a lunulate spot nearer base in submedian inter- 

 space ; beyond the conical and rounded marks are six small 

 white spots in the interspaces defined by brown ; a fine brown 

 terminal line ; cilia pure white with three small brown spots 

 at middle. Hind wing white, the termen tinged with 

 yellow; a brown medial line from below costa to vein 1, 

 forming a fork in and just below end of cell ; postmedial 

 line strongly excurved between veins 5 and 2 and ending on 

 termen at vein 1, where it is rather irregular, and with a 

 brown bar across its sinus ; a minutely waved subterminal 

 line, slightly excurved between veins 5 and 2, where it 

 terminates ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia pure white, 

 with series of small brown spots from apex to vein 2. 



Hab. Transvaal, Pretoria (Janse), 1 ? ; Bastjtolaxd, 

 Masite (Weigall), 1 <$ type; C. Colony, Kokstad (Mrs. 

 Pr'uiyle), 1 £ . Exp. 26 mm. 



(17 b) Noctuelia albidalis, sp. n. 



$ . White. Fore wing with the costal area faintly tinged 

 with brown to the postmedial line; a slight medial rufous 

 striga above vein 1 ; postmedial line represented by an oblique 

 rufous line from costa to vein 7, then a faint line with a few 

 dark scales on it from vein 6 nearer termen to vein 1, oblique 

 and slightly sinuous below vein 4, with a faint rather diffused 

 rufous line beyond it from vein 3 to inner margin ; a rather 

 diffused, minutely waved, rufous subterminal line, indistinct 

 below vein 4 ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia with a slight 

 rufous line through them. Hind wing with the terminal 

 area tinged with brown ; a fine black terminal line except 

 towards tornus ; cilia with a faint brown line near base, the 

 tips tinged with brown at apex and submedian interspace. 



Hab. Persian Gulf, Fao (Camming), 1 $ type Exp 

 20 mm. 



Genus Stenoptycha. 



Type. 



StenoptychOf Zell. Stctt. ent. Zeit. 1863, p. 154 ccelodactyla. 



AtomopteryX) Wlsm. Ent. Mo. Mag. xxvii. p. 216 



(1891) doeri. 



Hind wing with veins 4, 5 coincident, arising from the cell 

 01 stalked with vein 3. 



A. Foiv wing with semicircular postmedial dark mark 

 below costa. 

 a. Fore wing with the semicircular mark oblique and 



produced at outer extremity erschqfiana. 



