404 , Sir G. F. Hampson on new 



pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abilouien wliite, tlie fore legs 

 anil mid femora streaked with brown. Fore wing whitish suffused 

 with pale reddish brown and slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a 

 curved blackish antemedial line ; a black discoidal bar ; postmedial 

 line blackish, curved and minutely dentate to vein 2 where it is 

 retracted to below end of cell and oblique to inner margin ; a faint 

 rather diffused dentate brown subterminal line ; a fine black 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with pale reddish brown and irrorated with fuscous, the inner 

 margin white; an oblique blackish discoidal bar; postmedial line 

 rather dift'uscd blackish, waved to vein 2, then retracted to below 

 angle of cell and ending at tornus ; a blackish subterminal shade 

 with slightly waved outer edge to vein 2, then oblique ; a fine 

 black terminal line ; cilia with dark line near base, the tips white. 



Hah. Br. E. Afeica, N. Kavirondo, Maramas Distr., llala 

 (^Neave), 1 $ type. -£>_/?. 20 mm. 



(107 i) Pyrausta pulvereiumbralis, sp. n. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with i*ed-brown and with white segmental lines 

 towards extremity, the anal tuft tinged with rufous ; palpi wliite 

 below towards base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 white slightly tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged 

 with nifous, ii'rorated with brown from before the antemedial to 

 beyond the postmedial line except on costal area, the medial area 

 whitish except towards costji ; antemedial line fulvous yellow w itii 

 a brownish line on it, curved ; a small brown spot defined by 

 fulvous yellow in upper part of cell towards extremity and brown 

 discoidal bar defined by fulvous yellow ; an oblique brown shade 

 from beyond upper angle of cell to inner margin beyond the post- 

 medial line, which is fulvous j'ellow with a brownish line on it, 

 exeurved from vein 7 to 5, then rather oblique to vein 3, then bent 

 inwards to lower angle of cell, then again rather oblique and bent 

 outwards to inner margin, a brown shade with waved outer edge 

 bej'ond it from below costa to vein 3 ; a curved rather diffused 

 fulvous yellow subterminal line, arising below the costa; cilia 

 white with a faint ochreous brown line at middle. Hind wing 

 white ; a brownish postmedial line, bent inwards at vein 2, then 

 oblique to tornus ; a brownish subterminal line. 



Hab. Abtssixia, Dire Daroua (Krisiensen), 1 d type. ^.vj). 

 24 mm. 



(107 e) Pyrausta fulvitinctalis, sp. n. 



5 . Head and thorax fulvous ; abdomen red-browTi with" fine 

 white segmental lincB on medial segments ; antennae dark brown ; 

 frons 'w-ith white lines at sides ; palpi yellow with a fulvous tinge ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white tinged with 



