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Show 1895.] OF THE SCHCENOBIIN.E AND CRAMBINCE. 939 middle, and obscure postmedial and submarginal series of short streaks; two dark specks on the margin below middle ; veins 4, 5 often stalked. Hind wing ochreous white. Hab. Lahore (Harford) ; Ceylon (Pole). Exp. 14-22 m m . (206)fCRAMBUS DELINEATELLUS, n. sp. o*. Ochreous white ; palpi at sides and patagia brown. Fore wing ochreous white ; the veins pure white, with fine brown lines on each side of them; fine brown streaks in cell and interspaces below it; a black discocellular spot, a spot below origin of vein 2, and a spot at outer angle ; two fine brown lines just inside the margin, and a series of black specks on the margin. Hind wing white. Hab. Castro Parana, Brazil (Jones). Exp. 22 m m . B. Fore wing with vein 7 given off nearer the apex than 9. (207)tCRAMBUS MULTIRADIELLUS, n. Sp. Head and thorax black-brown ; palpi below, the sides of frons, antennse, and metathorax white; abdomen greyish. Fore wing black-brown; a white fascia from base bifurcating at middle of cell, again dividing into three branches towards costa and three beyond lower angle of cell; a broad white fascia on inner area irrorated with black; a double fulvous line from costa beyond middle, oblique to below apex, then submarginal; a marginal series of black spots ; the cilia silvery. Hind wing pure white. Hab. Sao Paulo ; Castro Parana, Brazil (Jones). Exp. 26 m m . (208)fCRAMBUS ARGENTILINEELLUS, n. sp. Head and thorax pale rufous; the patagia tinged with purple; abdomen pale, in some specimens with paired dark lateral patches. Fore wing pale ochreous brown, with broad whitish costal fascia with purple-brown stripe below it ; a purple-brown streak below median nervure; pale streaks on the veins beyond the cell; the marginal area orange, with curved silvery submarginal line; a marginal series of black specks; the cilia silvery. Hind wing white with pale fuscous suffusion, chiefly on apical area. Hab. Sao Paulo; Castro Parana, Brazil (Jones). Exp. 28- •32 mm. List of undetermined Species. Crambus argillaceus, Pack. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. 54. Labrador. „ colchicellus, Led. Armenia. „ leevigatellus, Tied. Armenia. „ inconspicuellus, Snell. Tijds. Ent. (2) vii. p. 102, pi. 8. f. 5. Guinea. Calamotropha robustclla, Snell. Tijds. Ent. (2) vii. p. 100, pi. 8. ff. 2, 3. Guinea. abjedella, Snell. Tijds. Ent. (2) vii. p. 101, pi. 8. f. 4. Guinea. |