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a dark stripe extends to the termen ; termen with a pale spot about vein 4. 

 Secondary dark grey, with a small central creamy spot. Fringes dark, pale between 

 veins 1 and 2 and between 5 and 6. 



Expanse : 46 mm. 



Hab. The type is in my collection from Ekeikei, where the species flies in 

 March and April. 



This species will come next to E. churon Btl. 



ISl. Ercheia kebea spec. nov. 



Head dark brown ; collar and thorax pale chestnut-brown, darkly irrorated, a 

 dark central prothoracic spot; abdomen dark grey, with a dark chestnut tuft on 

 the proximal segments. Primary brown ; basal area dark purplish to the lower 

 margin of the cell, below wliich it is jjale ochreous at the base, shading into dark 

 irrorated chestnut-red brown, the whole edged by the wavy dark antemedial line, 

 at the end of which the inner margin is produced into a lobe deeply excavated 

 on the exterior; beyond this line the area is paler, with a slight lavender-grey 

 suffusion, with a dark spot below the angle of vein 2 ; postmedial line faint, 

 produced well forward to vein 4, where it recedes to the inner margin ; beyond 

 this line the ground colour is darker, sepia brown, very dark on the costa up to 

 the apex ; two creamy points at the end of the reniform; termen finely dotted 

 with blackish. Secondary dark grey, with an interrupted j^ale medial baud from 

 the cell to the inner margin, beyond which the colour is very dark ; fringes blackish, 

 creamy from vein 1 to 2 and from 5 to 0. 



Expanse : 58 mm. 



Hab. The type is in my collection from Mount Kebea, where the insect occurs 

 in March and April. We have specimens from other lower localities in January 

 and February, and from the high localities in May and June. In the Tring 

 Museum from the Aroa River are others. 



1S2. Hypocala kebeae spec nov. 



? . Head and thorax dull rnfous brown ; abdomen alternately banded black 

 and yellow. Primary uniform dull rufous brown, with a darker shading beyond the 

 cell ; sparingly irrorated with black points edged internally with grey ; a small 

 bluish grey spot at the tornus with a black pupil, above which is a whitish jjoint ; 

 termen palely dotted. Secondary black, with a double yellow spot at the tornus ; 

 a yellow streak in the cell expanding into a spot beyond it ; a yellow stripe on the 

 fold, separated from the yellow cell by the black ground colour. 



Underside black, reduced, especially on the secondary, where it is but a small 

 spot in the cell and a bar at- the tornus. 



Expanse : 49 mm. 



Hab. The type is in my collection from the Kebea Range, where the species 

 flies in March and April. 



183. Hypocala pratti spec. nov. 



$. Head and central stripe of thorax pale cinnamon-brown, thorax purplish 

 brown, abdomen yellow with narrow dark grey dorsum. Primary reddish fown- 

 brown, redder below the cell ; a short double basal line, an oblique antemedial 



