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directed forwards, terminal as long as second. Maxillary palpi 
short, slender, filiform in both sexes. Fore wings with glandular 
swelling occupying disc on basal fourth, and slight median costal 
glandular swelling; 4 and 5 connate, diverging, 7 and 8 out of 9 
beyond middle, 10 separate. Hindwings 4 and 5 connate, nearly 
approximated on basal third, 7 connate with 6 , nearly approximated 
to 8 on basal third. 
Ethelontides biunicornis, n. sp. 
<J 2 ■ 21-26 mm. Head, thorax pale greyish-ochreous slightly 
sprinkled fuscous. Palpi greyish-ochreous slightly sprinkled dark 
grey. Forewings subtriangular, termen rather obliquely rounded; 
pale greyish-ochreous with greenish tinge, irregularly sprinkled 
fuscous ; lines indicated by double suffused irregular denticulate 
dark fuscous margins, much thickened towards costa, first from 
costa at 5 to dorsum at excurved, second from costa at | to dorsum 
at somewhat excurved in disc, its posterior margin forming a fascia 
of dark fuscous suffusion widest in disc ; posterior half of costal edge 
in § suffused dark crimson ; a terminal series of small subquadrate 
dark fuscous spots: cilia pale greyish-ochreous obscurely barred 
grey. Hindwings grey, a broad suffused dark grey terminal band ; 
cilia light greyish. *• 
Java, Bandjar, bred July, August from larvae feeding on leaves of 
Eugenia sp. ( Myrtacece ) ( Dr. L. G. E. Kalshoven ) ; 2 ex. 
Pyralis argospila, n. sp. 
< 5 . 14 mm. Head light yellow (injured). Palpi crimson 
speckled yellowish. Thorax light yellow, two anterior crimson 
spots. Abdomen crimson sprinkled yellow, two yellow spots on 
basal half and one before apex. Forewings somewhat elongate- 
triangular, termen rounded, oblique; purplish-crimson, some 
scattered blackish scales, basal and terminal areas mixed white, 
median area mixed yellow, seven small orange costal spots from 
^ to J, lines hardly recognisable ; suboval white blotches in disc 
at towards costa at |, and towards tornus : cilia orange-yellow, 
basal third light crimson. Hindwings purplish-crimson, scattered 
blackish scales, basal and terminal thirds mixed white, median third 
mixed yellow ; lines white, first at excurved, second with median 
third abruptly excurved and detached, upper and lower thirds 
thickened ; cilia as in forewings. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, March (C. Seydel ); 1 ex. (Belg. 
Cong. Mus.). 
Pyralis persicodora, n. sp. 
J. 15 mm. Head, thorax yellow mixed crimson-purple. Palpi 
purplish-red, apex yellow. Forewings purple ; lines white, first 
at 3 , excurved, second from costa before § to dorsum at 4, slightly 
sinuate inwards, enclosed median band orange-yellow with a few 
purplish specks; apex narrowly suffused orange-yellow: cilia 
