Pyralide of the Subfamily Endotrichine. 357 
wing bright red-brown with a faint purplish tinge and irrorated 
with blackish, the costa ochreous towards base; faint traces of a 
curved slightly waved dark postmedial line. Underside ochreous 
suffused with purplish red-brown and irrorated with black except 
on inner areas; both wings with diffuse curved dark postmedial 
line from costa to vein 2. 
Hab. VENEZUELA, Esteban Valley, Las Quiguas, 1 ¢ type. 
Kap. 32 mm. 
E/NDOTRICHINA. 
(2a) Endotricha pyrochroa, sp. n. 
2. Head, thorax, and abdomen fiery crimson; antenne tinged 
with brown except towards base; proboscis white towards base ; 
palpi with the Ist joint white in front; pectus with a fan of 
silvery-white scales in front; mid tibie and tarsi white in front. 
Fore wing fiery crimson, the basal part of costal area and the 
medial area slightly tinged with brown, the costa with a series 
of dark points on it; a slightly waved antemedial brown line; 
a blackish striga on upper discocellular; postmedial line brown, 
excurved and minutely waved to submedian fold where it is 
slightly incurved, then again excurved; the terminal area with 
slight dark irroration; a terminal series of blackish points ; cilia 
brownish. Hind wing fiery crimson, the basal and costal areas 
tinged with brown, the inner area whitish; a rather obliquely 
curved dark medial line; a curved brown postmedial line, slightly 
waved to submedian fold; the terminal area irrorated with 
blackish ; a terminal series of blackish strie; cilia dark brown 
with a crimson line at base. Underside fiery crimson, the costal 
and terminal areas with some dark iroration; fore wing with 
a series of minute black spots on costa, a curved slightly waved 
dark postmedial line; hind wing with dark subterminal line, 
oblique towards costa, then excurved. 
Hab. Durcu N. Gutyea, Fak-fak (Pratt), 1 2 type. Heap. 
26 min. 
(3 6) Endotricha chionosema, sp. n. 
6. Head, thorax, and abdomen crimson-red irrorated with a 
few dark scales; antenne brownish; legs dull red suffused with 
fuscous ; ventral surface of abdomen fuscous at base. Fore wing 
dull crimson-red, the costa fuscous brown with a series of white 
points on it, the basal half fuscous brown with a leaden gloss from 
just below costa to inner margin, the hair on which is red; a 
whitish medial line, obliquely excurved to vein 1, then incurved ; 
the terminal area irrorated with fuscous brown, less thickly on 
costal half; a slightly waved pale red subterminal line, white 
at costa and defined on outer side by fuscous, ending on termen at 
vein 1; cilia pale crimson with a black line near base to vein 1, 
the tips black at apex, then white to vein 4. Hind wing pale 
crimson irrorated with blackish; a large patch clothed with white 
