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Show 268 SIR G. F. HAMPS0N-REVISION OF MOTHS [Feb. 21, (192)fPYRAUSTA PHiEOPHCENICA, n. Sp. 3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen black, mixed with ochreous and dark purple-red scales; abdomen suffused with red on dorsum and with pale segmental lines. Fore Aving dark purple-red, irrorated with yellow and greyish scales ; indistinct waved subbasal and antemedial yellow lines; a yellow spot iu end of cell; a sinuous postmedial line strongly excurved between veins 5 and 2; a subterminal line represented by marks below apex and above tornus. Hind wing black-brown, with yellow spot below middle of cell; a postmedial baud between veins 5 and 2; subterminal spots below veins 6 and 2, aud a spot on inner margin above tornus. Underside with much more developed greyish-yellow markings. Hab. Brazil, Castro Baraha (Jones). Exp. 14 mm. (193)*PYRAUSTA LATINIGRALIS, n. sp. 2 • Head aud thorax black ; palpi orange below; vertex of head with some orange scales ; legs orange, fore legs with black on femora and tibiae; abdomen orange, with slight lateral segmental black marks and some black on terminal segment. Fore wing black, A\ ith orange antemedial band expanding at middle; a spot in end of cell ; the postmedial line excurved between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to angle of cell, defined by an orange band from costa to vein 5, a line from vein 5 to 3, and an orange patch below cell; cilia orange at apex and tornus. Hind wing orange; an oblique antemedial black line; the postmedial line bent outwards between veins 5 and 2, then oblique to tornus; the terminal area black with sinuous inner edge, wide at costa and narrowing to tornus. Hab. Niger, Warri (Roth). Exp. 20 mm. Type in Coll. Bothschild. (194) PYRAUSTA NIEPOLDALIS Led. AVien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 46, pl. 8. f. 6. Silesia. (195) PYRAUSTA TRIMACULALIS Stgr. S. E. Z. 1867, p. 109. Greece; Armenia. (195a)fPYRAUSTA TETRAPLAGALIS, ii. sp. (1898, Plate L. fig. 25.) 3 . Head orange, antennae and tufts above eyes blackish; thorax orauge, with two black stripes ; abdomen orange, with dorsal series of blackish marks. Fore wing black, with orange subbasal baud; a medial triangular spot on costa ; a round patch on inner area just beyond middle; an elliptical subterminal patch extending from costa to vein 2. Hind wing black, the basal area orange ; a broad postmedial band narrowing someAvhat on inner area. Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall). Exp. 16 mm. (196) PYRAUSTA SIKKIMA Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 207. Himalayas; Andamans. t „ maculata Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. 93, pl. 134. f. 16. |