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104. Spectrobasis viridis spec. nov. 



Foreicing : reddish and olive-gre}% the tints mneh mixed, the liaes and bands 

 being darker and the intervals ou costa whitish ; costa at base dnil moss-green, 

 beyond dotted, dark green and pale ; a darlc cell-spot ; outer edge of central fascia 

 from two-thirds of costa, ontcnrved, to two-thirds of inner margin ; fringe whitish 

 with dark green cheqnering. 



Bindwing : dnll greenish gre}-, with a reddisli tinge, paler along costal area, 

 the bands of underside showing throngli ; fringe as in forewing. 



Underside of forewing blurred ; the costal and hindmargins green, with 

 paler markings ; hindwing white sprinkled with green, forming three green bands 

 separated b}- whitish bands, tlie green bands often varied with dark purplish scales. 

 In the larger ? the costal and hindmargin of forewing and most of the scaling 

 of hindwings is reddish instead of green. 



Head and abdomen pinkish grey, with Vlarlc speckling ; thorax mainly dark 

 green, varied with paler. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. ; the redder ? 28 mm. 



2 c?c?,2 ??. 



Evidently a very variable species. 



lii.j. Xanthorhoe albiapicata spec. nov. 



Fon'w/'nr/ : blackish fuscous from base to outer edge of central fascia, the 

 band beyond basal area always greyer, sometimes witli pale dots along its edges ; 

 the baud beyond central fascia brightly white to below vein 4, where it joins a 

 white lunule in the submarginal line, sometimes running pale to hindmargin and 

 out into tlie fringe; submarginal line rarely distinct; the lunule above vein 6 

 always pale, bluish grey ; marginal line black ; fringe blackish, mottled with 

 jialer ; the marginal area round apex, beyond cell, and broadly below vein 3 

 dark fuscous, sometimes blackish. In the c? the white of the pale band is more 

 extensive than in the ¥ . 



Uiixlwiiig : dull blackish fuscous, with the lines obscure, but paler on inner 

 margin. 



Underside glossy cinereous, sprinkled with whitish in hindwing ; the lines all 

 dark but the submarginal, wliich is represented by white spots, that below 4 large. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



A long series of both sexes. 



106. Xanthorhoe bifulvata spec. nov. 



Forewing : with basal patch, central fascia, and shade preceding submarginal 

 line brownish fuscous ; basal patcli edged and crossed by a darker shade ; central 

 fascia edged with darker fuscous, with a deeper band on its inner edge and two 

 wavy dark lines before the outer, with paler grey lines between ; basal patch and 

 central fascia edged by silvery grey bands with a dark centre ; space between the 

 inner two filled up with fulvous grey ; band before snbmarginal line fulvous 

 tinged in its inner half, paler between veins 3 and 4; snlimarginal line wavy, 

 pale grey, broadly silvery grey just below middle ; marginal area dark and light 

 grey ; a row of dark marginal lunules between veins ; fringe mottled dark and 

 light grey. 



