490 Sir G. F. Hampson on the Moths collected 



inwards at veins 6 and 2, below which it ends on termen ; a 

 terminal series of points from apex to vein 2. 



Madagascar, Foret d'Ambre, 2 c? type. Exp. 10-16 mm. 



Htdrocampii^^. 

 Arnbia heptopalis, sp. n. 



S . Head brownish, the palpi and antennge fulvous ; thorax 

 brownish white, the tarsi ringed with fuscous; abdomen 

 whitish, with slight fuscous segmental bands. Fore wing 

 whitish, tinged with golden yellow and slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous, especially on costal area ; two blackish anteraedial 

 points on costa and traces of a sinuous antemedial line ; 

 traces of a dark discoidal lunule ; two curved dark subterminal 

 lines from costa to vein 2, with the area beyond them white ; 

 some black points on termen ; cilia golden yellow, with slight 

 dark line at middle and black points at tips. Hind wing 

 yellowish white, slightly irrorated with fuscous ; a tuft of 

 long black hair at lower angle of cell ; a blackish postinedial 

 line oblique from costa to submedian fold, where it is angled 

 inwards, then excurved ; a terminal orange band defined on 

 inner side by a brown line bent outwards to termen near 

 tornus, and with seven black points on termen from below 

 apex to submedian fold, with silver scales between them; 

 cilia whitish. 



Beazil, Itaparica {Meade- Waldo), 1 S type. Exp. 

 16 mm. 



Allied to A. metalophota, Hmpsn. 



Ptbavstin^. 

 Pilocrocis xanthostictalis^ sp. n. 



^ . Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge ; palpi 

 white at base; sides of frons with whitish streaks ; vertex of 

 head whitish ; pectus and legs white, the fore tibiffl with 

 brown bands at extremity; abdomen white, dorsally suffused 

 with red-brown. Fore wing red-brown; a dark antemedial 

 line, excurved from costa to submedian fold, then incurved, 

 with a yellow band on its inner side from below costa to 

 inner margin ; a black spot in middle of cell and discoidal 

 lunule, with quadrate white patch between them ; a dark 

 postmcdial line, incurved from below costa to vein 5, where it 

 is bent outwards, at vein 2 retracted to lower angle of cell, 

 then recurved, with trifid dentate yellow mark on its outer 

 edge below costa, three minute dentate spots between veins 



