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front; two brown zig-zag lines extending from the costa to the 

 patch; fringe cinereous, interhned with blackish. Hind wings 

 bro-svn, cinereous in front. Length of the body 6| lines; of the 

 wings 17 lines. 



51. Ophiusa sub.^nescens. Mas. Cinereo fusca; palpis fere 

 erectis verticem paullo superantibus, articulo 3° longi conico; alis 

 anticis nigro conspersis, fasciis duabus atris fusco extus late mar- 

 ginatis, l"^ apud marginem interiorem producta, 1^ antice dilatata 

 flexa et fere interrupta, fascia marginali abbreviata obscure fusca, 

 Hneis quatuor fuscis transversis undulatis, reniformi fusco aut 

 nigro marginata; alis posticis lineis tribus fuscis transversis 

 subangulosis. 



Male. Cinereous brown, rather slender, cinereous beneath. Palpi 

 stout, nearly erect, rising a little higher than the vertex; 3rd joint 

 elongate, conical, not more than one-fourth of the length of the 

 2nd. Antennae slender, minutely setulose. Abdomen hardly 

 extending beyond the hind wings; apical tuft very small. Legs 

 slender; femora and tibiae fringed. Fore wings acute, minutely 

 black-speckled, with two deep black bands; a brown space along 

 the outer side of each band; 1st band prolonged outward along 

 the interior border; 2nd widened in front, where it is bent out- 

 ward, and nearly interrupted; a dark brown marginal band, 

 which is abbreviated at each end; two transverse undulating 

 brown lines near the base, and two more between the bands, the 

 latter lines between the interior border and the reniform mark, 

 which is bordered with brown or with black; under side with a 

 broad abbreviated dark brown submarginal band. Hind wings 

 with three brown transverse postmedial slightly zig-zag lines. 

 Length of the body 9 lines; of the wings 22 lines. See Plate VI, 

 Fig. 9. 



52. Grammodes curvilinea. Foem. Fusca; corpore alisque 

 subtus facieque albidis; palpis oblique ascendentibus subtus fimbri- 

 atis; alis fascia antemedia alba recta; alis anticis fascia postmedia 

 tenui alba angulata biarcuata extus corvino marginata, fasciis 

 subtus duabus fuscis P furcata; alis posticis maculo submarginali 

 alb?,, fasciis subtus tril)us fuscis 3^ latissima maculas albas inclu- 

 dente. 



Female. Brown. Face, palpi beneath and body beneath whitish. 



