Pyralidai <'f ihe Subfamily Pyraliii£e. 77 



line from it to inner margin ; hind wing with oblique whitish 

 postmedial line defined on inner side by darker brown. 



Hab. X. NiGEiu.v, Minna (Jlacjle), 1 cS type, Zungeru (Macjle), 

 1 J , 1 2 . £xj>., 6 1-1, $ 16 mm. 



(2rt) Stcmmatophora oleoalbaUs, sp. n. 



cT . Head and thorax white wdth a faint brownish tinge ; abdo- 

 men whitish tinged with red-brown and iiTorated Avith dark brown 

 scales ; antennte ringed with brown ; pectus and legs suffused with 

 red-brown, the tarsi dark brown ringed with white ; ventral surface 

 of abdomen dark brown towards extremity. Fore wing white 

 tinged with pale olive and irrorated Avith a few black scales ; a 

 slight black mark at base of cost.i ; the medial area black with 

 white points on costa and denned by the diffused wliite ante- and 

 postmedial lines, the former nearly straight, the Litter strongly 

 excurved at middle, then incurved, a wedge-shaped rufous patch 

 beyond it on costa ; a terminal series of faint black points. Hind 

 wing white with a faint brownish tinge ; a faint curved dark post- 

 medial line ; a terminal series of black points except towards 

 tornus. Underside whitish tinged Avith rufous ; fore wing Avith 

 whitish points witli black between them to the postmedial line, 

 the medial area suffused Avith blackish ; hind Aving with slight 

 dark point at upper angle of cell and rather diffused black post- 

 medial line defined on outer side by Avhite and excurved at middle. 



Hab. Be. E. Afbica, Nairobi {Anderson), 1 S type. Exp. 

 20 mm. 



(2 h) Slemmatophora cliloralis, sp. n. 



Btemmatopliora cliloralis, Longstaff, Butterfly Hxmting in Many Lands, 

 pi. ii. fis-. 9. 



5 . Head white ; antennae with the extreme base of shaft black ; 

 thorax AAdiite tinged Avith A^ery jxale blue-green ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen white irrorated Avith a fcAv black scales, the tarsi slightly 

 ringed with black. Fore wing Avhite very finely pencilled Avith 

 pale blue-green ; a black striga from base of costa ; a black point 

 on middle of costa ; an oblique black band, defined on each side by 

 rather diffused Avhite from costa just beyond middle to inner 

 margin, with some Avhite points on it at costa, expanding into a 

 large elliptical black patch in and beyond the cell, then narroAving 

 and again slightly expanding to inner margin ; a terminal series of 

 slight black points with a more j^rominent point above tornus. 

 Hind wing AA'hite. the terminal area slightly irrorated with black 

 scales, extending on costa to middle and narrowing to tornus ; a 

 slight fuscous mark at loAver angle of cell ; a terminal series of 

 small black spots from apex to submedian fold. Underside of fore 

 wing with prominent series of black strite on costa from base to 

 the })ostmedial band Avhich is obsolescent. 



itab. Zambesi, Victoria Falls {Zonr/staf), 1 5 type, d' in 

 Coll. Longstaff. Exp. 24 mm. 



