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ferruginous speckles, and a ferruginous band, its fore part white. 

 Pectus and under side of the abdomen white. Hind legs whitish. 

 Wings with transverse ferruginous speckles, and with two ferru- 

 ginous bands; 1st band postmedial, forming an acute outward 

 angle in each wing, diffuse on the inner side; 2nd band subniar- 

 ginal, interrupted, and very irregular, accompanied by silvery 

 partly black -bordered dots of various size and shape; under side 

 pale, with the markings much less complete. Fore wings with 

 an antemedial slender straight ferruginous band ; a cinereous 

 costal stripe, Avhich is contiguous to a silvery black bordered dot 

 in the disk. Hind wings with a silvery black-bordered discoidal 

 point. Length of the body 7|- lines; of tlie wings 1 9 lines. See 

 Plate VII, Fig. 13. 



70. BoARMiA ABRUPTARIA. M<(S. Alba, robusta; capite antico 

 pal^jisque fuscis, vertice luteo-bifasciato; thorace maculis duabus 

 anticis nigris luteo marginatis duabusque posticis luteis; abdo- 

 minis segmentis luteo fasciatis; alls fusco conspersis, lineis duabus 

 duplicatis interruptis angulosis guttisque marginalibus fuscis; alls 

 anticis maculis tribus costalibus fuscis; alls posticis margine ex- 

 teriore subundulato vix angulato. 



Male. White, stout. Head in front and palpi dark brown; 

 vertex with two luteous bands. Antennae black, white at the 

 base, broadly pectinated to two-thirds of the lengtli. Thorax 

 with a black broadly luteous bordered spot on each of the fore 

 teguliB, and Avith a luteous spot on each side near the hind 

 border. Abdomen not extending beyond the hind wings, with a 

 luteous band on the hind border of each segment, and with a few 

 black speckles; apical tuft small. Legs stout, mostly blackish. 

 Wings dimly brown-speckled, with two very incomplete double 

 zig-zag brown lines; 1st line antemedial, apparent near the 

 interior border of the hind wings; 2nd postmedial, apparent near 

 the interior border of the fore wings and of the hind wings; some 

 subraarginal clusters of speckles, and a row of marginal brown 

 dots. Fore wings acute, with three brown costal spots; exterior 

 border slightly rounded, very oblique. Hind wings with the 

 exterior border slightly festooned, hardly angular. Lengtli of the 

 body 9 lines; of the wings 22 lines. 



71. Tephrosia diffusa. Fcem. Cinereo-viridis, gracilis; palpis 



