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EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA. 
yeilow. Hindwings as forewings, but basal and median areas 
smaller, posterior purple area occupying nearly half wing. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, March (C. /S 'ey del) \ 1 ex. (Belg. 
Cong. Mus.). Allied to Jlavirubralis Hamps. 
Pyralis orbigera, n. sp. 
2 . 18 mm. Head light yellow. Palpi yellow, a streak on 
basal | of second joint, and base of terminal joint greyish-flesh- 
colour. Thorax yellow-whitish, somewhat sprinkled irregularly 
light purplish. Abdomen pale yellow mixed purplish. Fore¬ 
wings elongate-triangular, termen rather obliquely rounded ; light 
yellowish ; some white marking at base, followed by a dull greyish- 
crimson fascia extending to first line ; first line at white, direct, 
irregular, expanded into blotches above and below middle ; costa 
between first and second lines greyish-crimson with about six 
whitish dots : a round whitish blotch beneath middle of costa, 
another on middle of dorsum, and a larger oval one in disc at j|, 
these markings edged greyish-crimson and partially connected with 
second line by irregular similar suffusion ; second line from costa 
at | to just before tornus, white edged greyish-crimson, thickened 
towards costa, rather excurved and waved in disc : cilia light rosy- 
greyish, a dark grey basal shade. Hindwings dull crimson, termen 
suffused pale yellowish; lines white, edged dark grey suffusion, 
first at irregularly sinuate, second at f, strongly curved ; a 
transverse-oval white blotch in middle of disc, edged dark grey 
suffusion ; cilia light rosy-crimson, with faint greyish median and 
darker grey subbasal shade. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, November ( C . Seydel ); 1 ex. 
(Belg Cong. Mus.). 
Pyralis chrysocoma, n. sp. 
<y. 16 mm. Head orange-yellow. Palpi orange-yellow, second 
joint sprinkled black on median area, base of terminal joint black. 
Thorax dark grey, tegulae with apical pencil of whitish-ochreous 
hairs. Abdomen dark grey, anal tuft yellowish dorsally. Eore- 
wings somewhat elongate-triangular, termen bowed, somewhat 
oblique ; dark grey ; lines fine, indistinct, slightly irregular, nearly 
parallel, direct, yellow-whitish, rising from triangular pale yellowish 
spots on costa at and J, four pale yellow costal dots between these ; 
cilia greyish. Hindwings blackisb-grey; lines fine, grey-whitish, 
slightly irregular and somewhat excurved, first at second in 
middle ; cilia grey. 
Belgian Congo, Elisabethville, January (C. Seydel ); 1 ex. 
(Belg. Cong. Mus.). Distinct from similar species by yellow head. 
Paracme meteoraula, n. sp. 
d . 24 mm. Head pale greyish-ochreous somewhat sprinkled 
fuscous. Palpi erect, ochreous-whitish suffusedly mixed dark fuscous, 
second joint expanded with rough scales posteriorly towards 
