Species o/Pyralidse. 317 



by whitish from cell to inner margin ; a whitish patch from 

 middle of costa to median nervure, enclosing an elliptical 

 brown spot, and with a whitish band from it to inner margin, 

 with its sides excised at middle; a small postmedial whitish 

 spot on costa and slight marks towards apex ; snbterminal 

 line black; defined on each side by white to discal fold, then 

 slightly by white on outer side only, acutely angled outwards 

 below apex, then incurved, slightly excurved below vein 4, 

 and ending above tornus, a blackish streak before it in discal 

 fold and some reddish beyond it at tornus ; a fine minutely 

 waved white line slightly denned on each side by black before 

 termen. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, especially 

 in end of cell and on terminal area to submedian fold ; a 

 fine slightly sinuous whitish line before termen from apex 

 to submedian fold; cilia white with a blackish line through 

 them ; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with 

 blackish, the brown spot in end of cell more distinct, a 

 whitish subterminal line slightly denned on each side by 

 brown lines from costa to vein 2. 



Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), 1 S tv P e J Bahamas, 

 Nassau (Sir G. Carter, Bonhote), 2 ? . Exp. 20 mm. 



(21) Lineodes serpulalis, Led. Wien. eut. Mon. 18G3, p. 417, 

 pi. xv. fig. 8. 

 Lineodes peridiulis, Wlk. xix. 948 (1859). 

 Hab. Peru ; S. Brazil ; Paraguay. 



(22) Lineodes poly chroalis, sp. n. 



<$ . Head and thorax purplish red-brown, the metathorax 

 with slight whitish streak ; forecoxse and fore and mid tibiae 

 sutl'used with blackish, the tarsi whitish ; abdomen purplish 

 red, a dorsal whitish streak on three basal segments, the 

 medial segments blackish at sides, the anal tuft reddish 

 ochreous. Fore wing purplish red, extending below the 

 costa to well beyond middle and on iuuer area to tornus, the 

 rest of terminal area yellow with diffused red streaks on the 

 veins ; some diffused black on antemedial area from costa 

 to median nervure and an oblique black line from the cell to 

 inner margin, with a black streak beyond it in submedian 

 fold ; a white point in middle of cell and a semihyaline 

 white bar denned by blackish across the cell towards its 

 extremity, au obliquely incurved white mark from the bar to 

 vein 1, with a triangular black patch irrorated with white 

 before it and some black beyond it ; a whitish fascia in discal 

 fold beyond the cell and some whitish on postmedial part of 

 costa ; au orange-yellow streak below terminal part of 



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