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87. Gadirtha costipallens spec. nov. 



? . Head ochreous grey, collar greeuish ; thorax pale grev witL greenish 

 patagiae ; abdomen pale ochreous gre3^ Primary grey, with a slight suffnsion of 

 greenish ; a blackish snbbasal ])atch, within wliich is a small ochreous short dash ; 

 apical two-thirds of costa broadly whitish grey, median dark line fine, very obscure, 

 with a dark dot in the cell ; reniform pale brown, darkly pnpilled and finely 

 encircled ; jiostmedial line linear black, waved, produced rapidly outwards to vein 6, 

 receding rapidly to inner margin from vein 2, beyond which the ground-colour 

 is pale reddish, a dark dash below the ai)ex, a row of snbterminal obscure short 

 white dashes. Secondary dark grey with paler inner margin. 



Expanse : 42 mm. 



Uah. The type is in my collection from Ekeikei, where the species occurs 

 in January and February. 



88. Gadirtha inconspicua spec. nov. 



? . Collar pale chocolate-brown finely irrorated with dark grey ; thorax and 

 abdomen pale grey irrorated with dark grey. Primary p;ile olive-grey for the basal 

 half, with the costa pale chocolate-brown, terminal half pale chocolate-brownish, 

 the inner margin being strongly oblique, a trace of a snbbasal line, snbterminal line 

 dark, very irregular, angled, rising in a whitish grey costal patch ; apex with an 

 oval whitish-grey patch from which descends the serrate snbterminal interruiited 

 line. Secondary dark grey, pale in the basal area. 



Expanse : 40 mm. 



llab. The type is in my collection from the Kebea Range, where the insect 

 flies in May and June. 



89. Ochthophora turneri spec. nov. 



?. Collar grey, very broadly banded for its upjier edge with dark purplish 

 grey ; patagia ochreous grey with the metathoracic tnft darker. Primary lilac grey 

 with the base ochreous grey, palest on the costa ; subViasal area dark grey, margined 

 by the irregular serrated fine autemedial line ; a small raised dull chestnut spot 

 in the cell followed by a larger similar one at the end of the cell ; postmedial line 

 broadly serrate, very irregular, receding inwards and encircling irregularly the 

 larger raised spot, below which it recedes to the inner margin; a snbterminal row 

 of fine dark spear-shaped marks palely infilled, interrupted in the nerve spaces, 

 followed by a row of fine dark dashes. Termen darkly dotted. Secondary pale 

 grey, paler towards the base and inner margin. 



Expanse : 40 mm. 



Ilab. The tyi)e is in my collection from Bubooiii, where the species flies in 

 September. 



This species is near 0. sericina Turner, but differs in the pale base and dark 

 subbasal area, and the snbterminal line is quite diti'erent. 



90. Labanda viridescens spec. nov. 



?. Head brown, collar dark brown with frontal of green scales ; thorax greyish 

 brown ; abdomen ochreous. Primary greyish brown, with a suifusion of green 

 scales all over the wing with the exception of the median area, where it is scanty ; 

 this suffusion is most prominent in the basal and postmedial areas, also over the 



