Pyralidee of the Subfamily Chrysaugiue. 353 
the cilia creamy white with a purplish-red line near base; hind 
wing whitish tinged with brown, the costal area ochreous white 
irror mated with red, two black bars from costa near base, a double faint 
curved dark postmedial line, blackish and filled in with white on 
costal area, a dark terminal line. 
Hab. Braziz, Rio Janeiro, 1 Q type. Herp. 20 mm, 
(3) Pelasgis griseolimalis, sp. n. 
Fore wing with vein 9 absent. 
3. Head and thorax bright red-brown; abdomen greyish 
brown; tarsi whitish except the 1st joint and tuft on hind tarsi, 
the spurs tipped with white. Fore wing bright red-brown, the 
terminal area purplish grey; some whitish at base of inner 
margin; antemedial line whitish, oblique, some whitish suffusion 
beyond it except on inner area; a blackish discoidal bar; a bright 
rufous patch on postmedial costal area ; postmedial line pale grey 
with a pure white bar from costa, then excurved; a terminal 
series of black points; cilia with a red-brown line near base. 
Hind wing grey-brown, the termen darker; cilia pale with a 
brown line through them. Underside of fore wing grey-brown, 
the terminal half of costal area and the terminal area to vein 4 
bright rufous, the inner area whitish to the postmedial line ; 
hind wing whitish suffused with brown, the apex rufous, a blackish 
mark on upper discocellular and curved white postmedial line 
defined on inner side by brown ; cilia white at base. 
Hab. Perv, Pozuzo,1 ¢ type. Hxp. 20 mm. 
(8) Curicta metaxanthalis, sp. n. 
Fore wing with the termen not excised towards tornus. 
3S. Head and thorax chestnut-brown; abdomen ochreous yellow; 
legs and ventral surface of abdomen whitish suffused with brown ; 
tarsi brown ringed with whitish. Fore wing glossy chestnut- 
brown with slight dark irroration; faint traces of a brown sub- 
terminal line, incurved below vein 8; cilia darker except towards 
tornus. Hind wing ochreous yellow, the apical area tinged with 
brown, the termen and cilia dark reddish brown. Underside of 
fore wing grey-brown, the. inner area whitish, the costa with some 
whitish beyond middle; hind wing with the costal area and the 
terminal area to vein 3 suffused with red-brown. 
Hab. N. Guinea, Ron I. (Doherty), 3 3 type. Hap. 22 mm. 
(5) Curicta peruviensis, sp. n. 
Fore wing with the termen hardly excised below apex, a discoidal 
fan of scales, 
3. Head and thorax bright chestnut-brown; abdomen red- 
brown; palpi and fore and mid tibiz deep chocolate-brown ; 
ventral surface of abdomen chestnut-brown, Fore wing bright 
chestnut-brown irrorated with yellowish white, the basal area paler 
except towards costa ; antemedial line white defined on outer side 
