54 Colonel C. Swltihoc on neio Eastern, 



black ppofs ; aLdomen suffti.sc^l with grey, witli black seg- 

 mental bands : fore wings almost entirely covered willi dis- 

 located blockish bands, snl)basal, ante- and po^tniodial, and 

 niar^Mnal, ti:o last tlie broadest, only extending two thirds 

 upwards, w;tli a black spot on tlie costa : bind wings white, 

 with gr<'y marginal borders and a gvey dot at the end of the 

 ceil. Underside paler, slightly ochreous tinged, markings 

 showing through : hind wings with an ailditional large grey 

 spot on the costa beyond the middle : body white; legs white, 

 >vith gioy bands. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



]iih<5, W. Africa ; one example. 



Theie are teveral unnamed examples from British East 

 Africa in the B. M. Trifid Drawer li)5 which are identical 

 with my epecimen. 



Family Pyraustidae. 

 Isocentris charopah's, nov. 



c? . Above clear ochreous-yellow ; palpi dark brown at the 

 base : fore wings with a black subcostal spot near the base ; 

 transverse lines brown, antemedial nearly erect, medial 

 descending to the hinder margin from a lunular line at the 

 end of the cell, and postmedial from C')sta to vein 2; a sub- 

 marginal line, followed by a silvery line, and a marginal 

 chocolate thin band, all close together; cilia white, thickly 

 interlined with chocolate-brown: liind wings with a di-cal 

 line, curving deeply inwards at vein 4, the marginal marks 

 as in the tore wings. Underside: ])ectus and body white; 

 legs yellow above, white beneaih ; tarsi with blackish-brown 

 bands ; w ings pale yellow ish ; fore wings with some of the 

 interior lines visible; iiind wings without markings. 



Kxpanse of wings j^ inch. 



Queensland ; one example. 



Blepharomastix hedychroalis, nov. 



J. Bright ochreous yellow, transverse lines brown: fore 

 wings with a short line on the lower half very near the base; 

 an antemedial, outwardly curved, even line ; a lunular line 

 at the end of the cell ; a somewiiat irregular and crenulated 

 discal line, which bends outwards below the costa, then curves 

 deeply inwards to the lower end of the cell, then agriin bends 

 outwards near the iiinder margin, to which it then runs down 

 straight; a row of brown points near outer margin: hind 



