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(luik bliitcli oil (liscocellular ; costa strignlated with chirk brown and Ncllow; fringe 

 browu, pale sfjottt'd in ajiical half. 



Uindiciitg : fuscous tinged with reddish, with a slightly curved line just beyond 

 middle, marked by black dots on veins ; fringe red-brown. 



Underside of forewing like iqiperside of hindwing, with dim dark striae e.xcejit 

 on inner-marginal half: hindwing redder; costal area and cell with black and 

 grey striae; inner margin paler, with dark striae; a curved postmedian dark- lino 

 and black cell-spot ; veins and parts of hindmargin red. 



Head and thorax woolly, deep chestnut ; abdomen duller red with a grey tint. 



Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



1 ?. 



Lobophysa gen. nov. 



A development of (loiwphaga, characterised by tiie invscnco of a lobe at base 

 of inner margin of hindwing in the S , reaching about one-third, and preceded at 

 base by a double hyaline elongate space on each side of vein 1, which is swollen. 



Type : Lobophijsa vagilinea spec. nov. 



GoHOphiiga straminca Warr., Nov. Zool. x. }>. 408, must be removed to this 

 geuns. 



~21. Lobophysa vagilinea spec, nov., ai.d ab. obsoleta nov., perstrigata nov., 



and colorata nov. 



Forewing : pale fawn-colour (when faded, grejish white), sparsely black- 

 speckled ; lines blackish, sharply defined ; first bracket-shaped, at one-fonrth, 

 vertical from subcostal to snbmedian vein, both extremities retracted; outer line 

 from three-fourths of costa oblique and slightly curved to vein 7, thence oblique 

 inwards with a slight curve to before middle of inner margin, preceded below 

 middle by the median line, of which the upper portion is obsolete ; the angle 

 of outer line at 7 touches the apex of a brown-grey triangular blotch on hind- 

 margin extending from apex to vein 4 ; submarginal lino hardly marked except 

 by a black blotch at anal angle ; a row of dark dots just before margin ; fringe 

 concolorous ; cell-spot annular, small. 



Hindwing : with a dark mark at base, a difl'uso dark lino of scales from 

 cell to end of lobe on inner margin; a black median line, generally curved 

 inwardly round the annular cell-spot, joined on inner margin by iiu uutcurved 

 postmedian line, which is sometimes completely lunulate-dentate, at others marked 

 only by the dark teeth on the veins : submarginal line from apex to anal angle, 

 angled between 4 and G and outwardly paler margined, with black spots on the 

 veins. 



Underside paler, with the lines, cell-spots, and speckling blacker ; submarginal 

 lines wavy ; apex of forewing whitish ; a short brown line from origin of vein 2 

 to inner margin, and a curved brown line from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths 

 of inner margin. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous ; palpi externally black ; face 

 browner; shoulders brown; metathorax with a pair of black spots; some black 

 spots on middle dorsal segments. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



In the aberration obsoleta the Hues are more or less obscured ; the basal 

 line being represented by dark dots; a brown blotch edged by two black lines 



