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Male. Dark ferrugiiKJUs brown. Head Avith a white angular 

 band on tlie front. Pectus cinereous. Abdomen dark brown; 

 under side whitish, except at the tip. Legs beneath and tarsi 

 wholly pale cinereous. Fore wings with two transverse slightly 

 black-bordered chalybeous blue lines, and with an intermediate 

 discoidal point of the same hue; 1st line near the base, more 

 oblique than the 2nd. Hind wings dark ])rown. Length of the 

 body 7 lines; of the wings 17 lines. 



6 1 . P YRALIS C?) CRASSALis. Fvem. Argenteo cinerea, robusta; 

 capite subtus pectore pedibusque argenteo albis; fascicnlo frontali 

 acuto; palpis porrectis late fimbriatis caput sat superantibus, 

 articulo 3° minimo; abdomine alas posticas pauUo superante; alls 

 atomis nonnullis fasciisque duabus undulatis indeterminatis nigri- 

 cantibus, punctis marginalibus nigris; alis anticis fascia 1" apud 

 costam attenuata S'' flavescente marginata; alis posticis fascia 

 2'' flavescente intus late marginata. 



Female. Silvery cinereous, stout. Head beneath, pectus and 

 legs silvery white. Head rather large; frontal tuft acute. Palpi 

 porrect, broadly fringed beneath, extending somewhat Ijeyond the 

 head; 3rd joint very minute. Antenna3 smooth, slender. Abdo- 

 men extending a little beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, 

 slender; hind tibiae with four long slender spurs. Wings with 

 some blackish speckles, and with two irregular undulating blackish 

 bands; marginal points black; under side with a black discoidal 

 dot, and with two incomplete blackish bands. Fore wings acute; 

 1st band attennated towards the costa; 2nd bordered on the 

 inner side by a yellowish line; exterior border rounded, slightly 

 oblique. Hind wings with the 2nd band bordered on the inner 

 side by a yellowish band, which is dilated in the middle. • Length 

 of the body 4 J lines; of the fore wings 10 J lines. 



G2. Samea figuralis. F<xm.. Cervina, subtus alba; abdomine 

 fusco segmentis albo marginatis; alis fasciis duabus obliquis albis 

 diaphanis nigro marginatis; alis anticis fascia 2''' fur cata lineam 

 nigram undulatum includente. 



Female. Fawn colour, white beneath. Abdomen brown; hind 

 1)urders of the segments white. Legs white, long, smooth, slender. 

 Wings with two pellucid iridescent oblique white black-bordered 

 bands, which are irregular in the fore wings; 1st band antemedial, 



