Species of Pyralidae. 315 



■wings whitish ochreous, partially suffused with fawn-browu, 

 blending to dark brownish fuscous in the more conspicuous 

 markings, and becoming almost black in narrow lines along 

 their edges ; there are five small dark fuscous spots on the 

 costa — one near the base, one at one-third, and a group of 

 three on the outer third ; the more conspicuous markings 

 consist of an outwardly oblique band arising from the dorsum 

 before the middle, nearly fading out below the costa, but 

 thence augulate outward and tapering obliquely downward 

 to an acute apex, pointing toward the middle of the termen 

 — this mark is narrowly and distinctly outlined with 

 blackish, except on the side facing the costa; between this 

 and the termen is a curiously straggling narrow dark lino, 

 set in a pale intermission among the general brownish 

 suffusion ; commencing on the costa, at about one-seventh 

 from the apex, this line runs very obliquely outward nearly to 

 the apex, where it is acutely augulate — it then forms a more 

 obtuse angle below its point of origin, whence it is continued 

 nearly to the middle of the termen, augulate again and con- 

 tinued to above and before the tornus, abruptly twisted 

 backward nearly to the projecting point of the great median 

 shade, and again abruptly twisted and sinuate, reaching 

 nearly to the dorsum beyond the middle, a dark brown patch 

 lying a little beyond its inner extremity ; the termen is 

 marked throughout by a line of the whitish ground-colour, 

 succeeded by a dark brownish fuscous line, again by a pale 

 fawn-brown line in the basal half of the whitish ochreous 

 cilia — all these augulate outward at the middle of the termen 

 and ending in a dark spot at the extreme apex, from which a 

 dark streak is continued inward and downward, terminating 

 abruptly before reaching the zigzag line. Exp. al. 16- 

 17 mm. Hind wings and cilia pale greyish ochreous, a 

 slight fuscous submar^inal suffusion toward the apex, with 

 one or two transverse dark lines below the end of the coll, a 

 dark line also along the base of the cilia. Abdomen whitish 

 ochreous. a dark fawn band across its basal half. Legs 

 whitish ochreous, with minute darker spots above at the ends 

 of the tarsal joints. 



Type ? (97212, Jamaica) Mus. Wlsm., B.M. 



Hub. America, N-I-S. Uxited States — Florida: 184G 

 (E. Doubleday); Miami, 1897 (JF.Schaus). West Indies 

 — Jamaica : St. Andrew: Constant Springs, 29. XII. 1904 

 (Wlsm.) ; Newcastle, 1898. South America — British 

 Guiana, Bockstoue, 25. 1V.-9. V. (W.J. Kaye) ; Brazil, Sao 

 Paulo, 1889 (E. D. Junes). Eight specimens. 



