FYRALIDIDiE. 531 
PYRALIDID^E. 
Lepidogma megaloceros, n. sp. 
<3 . 24 mm. Head, thorax brownish. Palpi brownish streaked 
black, tips of joints whitish. Antennae bipectinated (6), scape 
with extremely long curved process extending beyond metathorax, 
clothed with dense rough bronzy-brown hairs mixed dark fuscous. 
Abdomen pale ochreous sprinkled dark fuscous. Forewings grey- 
whitish, sprinkled dark grey ; basal area wholly dark grey on costal 
half; lines rather thick, whitish, first at nearly straight, direct, 
second from costa before | to dorsum before tornus, forming 
strongly excurved waved loop on median third, costal spots of 
blackish suffusion beyond first and before second; a roundish 
blackish discal spot; apical area beyond second line forming a grey 
patch becoming dark grey on costa; a terminal series of blackish- 
grey marks: cilia whitish. Hindwings whitish thinly speckled 
grey except towards base, more thickly speckled on terminal area, 
with faintly indicated pale second line nearly as in forewings ; 
an interrupted blackish-grey terminal line; cilia whitish, an 
indistinct greyish shade and traces of bars. ^ 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, November (O. Seyclel)', 1 ex. 
(Belg. Cong. Mus.). Nearest melaleucalis Hamps. 
Jocara malefica, n. sp. 
S $. 17-18 mm. Head, palpi dark fuscous, expansible hairs of 
maxillary palpi fuscous. Scapal process <$ very long, reaching end 
of thorax. Thorax dark fuscous, sometimes mixed whitish suffusion. 
Forewings fuscous suffusedly irrorated dark fuscous, with some 
blackish scales; lines obscure, dark fuscous, sometimes partially 
accompanied externally by whitish-ochreous suffusion, first about 
direct, bent near costa, second waved, from costa at | to dorsum 
near tornus, obliquely excurved in disc ; a blackish transverse mark 
on end of cell, preceded by a spot of whitish suffusion ; a terminal 
series of small blackish spots on veins separated by pale dots: cilia 
dark fuscous. Hindwings whitish-fuscous, more infuscated pos¬ 
teriorly, terminal edge suffused dark fuscous ; second line obscurely 
whitish on lower portion, a wedgeshaped spot of dark fuscous 
suffusion preceding it on vein 2; cilia fuscous, barred darker 
suffusion, a dark fuscous subbasal line. 
Madras, Nilambur, bred May, June from larvae defoliating 
Layerstroemia lanceoiata (Lythracece ) ((7. F. C. Beeson ) ; 2 ex. (type 
Brit. Mus.). 
Rhynchopaschia hemichlora, n. sp. 
S. 22-24 mm. Head, thorax pale greyish-ochreous partially 
tinged brownish, a few fuscous scales, apex of tegulse blackish. 
2 m 2 
