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Expanse : <? and ?, 74 mm. 



Hub. Tlio type is in my collcctioQ i'roni the Kebea Range, where the insect 

 oeenrrod iu Jnly ; other specimens from Babooni taken same mi>nth ; also from 

 other high hicalities in July anil August. 



These three beautiful species are closely allied, but 1 have no doubt they are 

 distinct ; we have both the sexes represented in each case, and in a long series of 

 pulch-istrigata there are no intermediate forms. 



190. Aedia melas spec, no v. 



c?. Head, thorax and abdomen darkly mottled brown, thorax and abdomen 

 with chestnnt-colonred tufts. Primary dark reddish brown ; antemedial line waved, 

 beyond which the medial area is very dark ; postmedial line almost crennlate ; 

 oblif^ne from the costa to about vein 5, where it is sharply angled, and from wliere 

 it descends to the inner margin, receding basewards very slightly ; beyond this line 

 the costal area is pale reddish brown ; apex darkish brown ; subtermiual line pale 

 red-brown, white below vein 6 and interrupted; a whitish spot just above the 

 tornus ; reniform greyish, from whence there is a jiale greyish band to the termen. 

 Secondary black, with a white central patch to beyond the cell ; fringes black, 

 white at the tornus and below the apex. 



Expanse : 37 mm. 



Hah. The type is in my collection from Ekcikei, where the species flies in 

 March and April ; other examples in the Tring Museum from the Aroa River. 



197. Aedia costiplaga spec. nov. 



?. Head and thorax grizzly brown; abdomen brown. Primary lilac-brown; 

 base finely irrorated with pale grey scales slightly raised ; two subtriangnlar 

 nmber-brown patches on the costa at the middle and before the apex ; at the 

 base of the costa and midway between it and the central patch is a dark point ; 

 below the former on vein 2 is a similar coloured small spot. Secondary uniform 

 darkish brown. 



Expanse : 36 mm. 



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

 Jaunary and February. 



198. Cyclodes pulchra spec. nov. 



c^. Frons whitish ochreous ; vertex of head ochreous brown ; collar i>ale brown 

 tijiped with wliitisli : thorax brownish, barred with lilac-grey ; metathorax and tijis 

 of jiatagia yellowish brown, barred with whitish ; abdomen whitish grey with fine 

 dark segmental divisions, with a triangular reddish brown dorsal patch. Primary 

 greyish brown, with bronzy green irrorations over the basal half ; the outer half 

 is paler and strongly irrorated with lilac-grey ; a bronzy green ocellus below the 

 costa encircled successively with fine lines of bluish, of black and of greenish white, 

 edged externally by the antemedial j)ale line, which is angled and double below 

 the ocellus : a small patch of bluish scales is also below the ocellus ; medial line 

 darkish, slightly obscure ; postmedial line strongly waved and irregular to vein 3 ; 

 edged indefinitely internally by whitish ; a broad blackish strijie angled in the 

 middle from the end of the costal vein to vein 3 on the termeu ; a dark subterminal 



