496 Mr. W. Warren on new 



Pyralis albiguttata, sp. n. 



Ground-colour purplish chestnut, rather glossy. Fore 

 wing with the transverse lines white, the first narrow, vertical, 

 nearly straight, at one third, very slightly swollen at the 

 costa; the second rises as a white oval spot on the costa, is 

 interrupted in midwing, and reappears towards the anal angle 

 as a narrow, curving, white streak ; costa between the two 

 lines spotted light and dark. Hind wing with two curved 

 whitish lines, which are nearer to each other on the inner 

 margin than on the costa : fringes of both wings concolorous, 

 with a broad dark basal line. Face, palpi, front of thorax, 

 and base of antenna? pale ochreous ; thorax and abdomen 

 purplish. Underside purplish fuscous, with all the pale 

 markings showing through. 



Expanse of wings 16 millim. 



One male from Wada-toga, Japan. 



Akin to P. lieniyialis, Zell. 



Pyralis albilautalis } sp. n. 



Fore wing : ground-colour brownish grey, more or less 

 sprinkled with white, especially towards the costa, between 

 the two transverse lines, the basal and marginal areas being 

 dark fuscous, untinged with white, the latter with a slight 

 violet tint before the apex ; the two transverse lines distinctly 

 white, the first regularly curved outwardly, the second 

 forming a deep sinus outwardly in the middle of the wing ; a 

 row of dark spots at the base of the fringes, which are white ; 

 a dark discal spot of varying intensity. Hind wing also 

 brownish grey, but with less of the brown ; a curved dark 

 fuscous central band, bulging outwards in the middle, dis- 

 tinctly edged with two white lines ; the space between the 

 outer line and the hind margin more or less clear white, 

 except at the apex and anal angle, which are darker fuscous j 

 fringes white. Head and thorax cinereous ; first two seg- 

 ments of abdomen dark, the rest reddish. Underside darker, 

 reddish fuscous, with the second line only distinct. 



A small species, about the same size or even less than P. 

 domesticalis and P. perversalis, easily recognized by the white 

 dusting. It may be akin to Zeller's ccesalis, also from South 

 Africa, but in that species the transverse lines are said to 

 resolve themselves into white spots. 



Three specimens from Natal. 



