CRAMBIDiE. 
445 
terminal series of small dark fuscous dots : cilia whitish-ochreous . 
Hindwing's and cilia whitish. 
Siam ( TV. R. S. Lccdell) ; 2 ex. (type Brit. Mus.). Allied to 
clelatalis. 
Charltona synaula, n. sp. 
$ . 45 mm. Head, palpi, thorax black, apical half of tegube 
grey. Forewings 11 curved and connected at a point with 12; 
purple-blackish ; white streaks from base along margins of cell, 
confluent to about |, then diverging and becoming furcate and 
pointed on veins 4-7 to termen, with short slender branches 
on other veins; white cloudy lines on 16 and 11: cilia dark 
purplish-grey. Hindwings grey, tinged whitish towards base, 
darker towards termen, a white line along cubitus and veins 4, 5 ; 
cilia greyish. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, November ( C. Seydel) ; 1 ex. 
Belg. Cong. Mus.). 
Eschata diplophanes, n. sp. 
5 . 21 mm. (Head rubbed.) Thorax brown, tegube silvery- 
white. Forewings elongate, slightly dilated, termen straight, 
rather oblique ; dark brown, dorsal area chestnut-brown ; broad 
shining iridescent silvery-white supramedian and submedian longi¬ 
tudinal stripes, former almost reaching costa on basal half, shortly 
bifurcate and not reaching termen, latter broadest near base, where 
it reaches dorsum, towards termen also furcate, upper branch 
curved up and running to termen above middle, lowbr forming a 
short pointed projection; a fine oblique white line across apex: 
cilia white, a blackish basal line. Hindwings white, apex slightly 
tinged ochreous and grey ; cilia white. 
Belgian Congo, “ 345 km. from Kindu ” {Dr. Russo ) ; 1 ex. 
(Belg. Cong. Mus.). 
Argyria xantholeuca, n. sp. 
<5. 17 mm. Head, palpi ochreous-orange. Thorax, abdomen 
silvery-white. Forewings rather elongate-triangular, termen 
rounded, somewhat oblique ; silvery-white : first line indicated 
by a straight antemedian series of three small black spots 
(costal, median, subdorsal) nearly parallel to termen; several 
small indistinct grey spots on posterior half of costa, a small 
blackish spot on dorsum about |, and one somewhat larger above 
and slightly beyond it; six small triangular black spots on termen 
from a little below apex to near tornus, fourth and fifth slightly 
largest and connected : cilia pale orange. Hindwings and cilia 
white. 
Belgian Congo, Mu Kishi (A. Becofuet ) ; 1 ex. (Belg. Cong. Mus.). 
