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simple, pubescent beneath. Ej^es naked, with short black lashes. 

 Tiie thoracic squamation consists of narrow scales. Maxillae 

 rather weak. Abdomen linear ; collar broad ; tliorax crested 

 behind ; front broad, exceeded b}^ the palpi. Legs unarmed ; the 

 median spurs on hind tibia? situate without the middle of the 

 joint. 



Hadena (Oligia) versicolor, n. s. 



Dark brown with a more or less decided ruddy tinge Primaries 

 shaded with ochreous along internal margin, and witii a well-sized 

 distinct deeper ochreous apical patch. Ordinary lines obsolete, 

 whitish, broken b}' black points on the veins ; the t. p. line ema- 

 nates from a distinct and large white spot on the costa above the 

 vague reniform, which latter is preceded b^^ a distinct black shade 

 on the disk, an evident feature of the ornamentation of the wing. 

 Hind wings uniform pale fuscous, silkj", beneath as above with a 

 discal dot and distinct darker median shade line. Fore winss 

 beneath blackish with traces of the continuation of the median 

 line, paler terminall3% Head and collar brownish ; tegulse paler ; 

 thoracic crestings tipped with blackish. 



JExjyanse 20 mm. Habitat. St. Catlierine's (Mr. Geo. Norman, 

 Nos. 11 and 79). Taken in June. 



Hadena (Oligia) tracta, n. s. 



A little stouter than the other species, and resembling the com- 

 mon 0. Chalcedonia (Hiibn.) ? in ornamentation. Head and 

 collar dark brown. Tegulee and thoracic disk smooth pale faAvn 

 color, and this lighter tinting spreads over the fore wings at base, 

 and extends, obliquely upwardly, to bej'ond the t. a. line over the 

 costal region to the median shade. Median lines geminate ; t. a. 

 line forming wide dentations ; t. p. line white shaded, emanating 

 from a double white costal mark, angulate opposite the cell, nearly 

 perpendicular, a little inwardly bent at median vein, skirting the 

 pale and small reniform spot which latter shows a dark central 

 line. The wing is darker, blackish shaded within the t. a. line at 

 the edge of the oblique pale basal shade, and on the disk. A large 

 ochre}' apical blotch, below which the thread-like angulate sub- 

 terminal line may be faintly discerned. Hind wings translucent 

 whitish, shaded with blackish over the apical region and supe- 

 riorl}' along the terminal margin ; beneath with faint dot and 

 obsolete line. 



