( 10.'5 ) 



with iiion; than its iiuifv half dark grey, the ontor half with a grey thread ; central 

 fascia narrow at inner margin, both edges irregularly Innnlate-deiitate, its centre 

 often blue-grey, containing a black cell-spot and two dark lines and a pale one 

 before outer edge ; pale band following very distinct, interrupted between 3 and 4 

 by a fulvous patch ; submarginal line white, preceded by blackish blotches on 

 costa, beyond cell, and above inner margin ; followed by a dark blotch at apex, 

 and by grey ones beyond cell and above inner margin ; marginal space between 

 3 and 4 generally paler; black marginal crescents between veins ; fringe whitish, 

 mottled with dark grey. 



In the ? , as usual, the central fascia is broader, and the fulvous patcli beyond 

 outer line more extensive. 



Ilindwing : dark grey, with the lines darker, the intervals on inner margin 

 white. 



Underside pale, speckled with grey in hind wing, suffused with dark grey in 

 lower half of forewing ; all the lines indicated. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark and light grey, the thorax mixed with 

 blackish; palpi externally fuscous; tarsi blackish, with the joints ochreous ; 

 segmental rings of abdomen white. 



Expanse of wings : c?, 2G mm. ; ? , 28 mm. 



5 66,4 ¥¥. 



110. Xanthorhoe interrufata spec. nov. 



Closely akin to A', ceras/iui, but the dark areas paler fuscous ; the central 

 fascia showing the two dark lines and the edges and cell-spot plainer ; the cerise 

 tints are confined to the pale bands edging the fascia, and even these are duller ; 

 the band before submarginal line is fuscous as well as the margin beyond. 



In the hindwing the whole surface is fuscous, the cerise tints of the outer |]ale 

 band being restricted to the inner margin. 



Underside fuscous, with all the pale cross-lines plainer. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous; anal tuft white. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



A long series. 



The wings are all glossy, as in crras/iia. 



111. Xanthorhoe monastica spec. nov. 



Forewiny : blackish fuscous, with all the lines darker; the central fascia with 

 three dark lines and edged with whitish, which at costa is white and conspicuous ; 

 fringe concolorous. 



Ilindwing : wholly dark fuscous, paler beyond outer edge of fascia; jiale dots 

 along margin at the ends of the veins. 



Underside dark glossy fuscous, the outer line marked by whitish dots on veins, 

 and the submarginal at costa only. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all blackish fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



A long series, not varying inter xc, except a pair apparently dwarfed, the 6 o( 

 which expands 3U mm. only and the ? 28 mm, 



