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dash ; termen very strongly arched with prominent black spots. Secondary very 

 pale greyish, with a pencil of fine hairs along the centre of the cell and a patch 

 tif fine slightly shining audroconia beyond it between veins 2 and 5 ; nnderside 

 with a small spot, followed by a large one in the cell, with a median and 

 postmedian line. 



Expanse, 40 mm. 



Hab. Owgarra, Upper Aroa River. 



Type in my collection. 



138. Echana nigra spec. nov. 



i. Head, pal])i, thorax, and abdomen Idackish ; thorax barred with rusty 

 brown. Primary black, with a basal, median, and postmedian white costal spot, 

 the two latter being the origin of their respective lines, which, however, are almost 

 quite obscured ; reuiform marked by a deep black spot ; termen strongly arched and 

 dotted with deep black. Secondary dark grey, with an ochreous pale grey pencil 

 along the cell, followed by a patch of pale grey androconia. 



Expanse, 39 mm. 



Hab. Owgarra, Aroa River, March. 



Type in my collection, a ? in the Tring Museum. 



139. Echana kebea spec. nov. 



Section with costal fold at end of cell. 



S. Head and thorax pale chocolate-brown. Primary pale cbocolate-brown, 

 with a trace of a basal line, a pale serrate median line below the costal fold, and 

 a fine dentate pale snbterminal line. Secondary whitish, somewhat hyaline, pale 

 pinkish brown at the apex and termen, tapering rapidly to vein 2. 



Expanse, 42 mm. 



Hab. Kebea Range, June. 



Type in my collection. 



Echanella gen. nov. 



(?. Antennae with a swelling and small tuft at a third from the base; palpi 

 strongly curved backwards, with second segment long well over the head ; third 

 segment moderate, both thickly scaled ; legs, fore with femora heavily scaled ; a tuft 

 of hairs at the tarsal joint ; mid and hind smoothly scaled. A strong contortion 

 at the end of the cell affecting the wing right across ; a fine basal costal fold. 

 Neuration, primary with veins 3 and 4 from the angle, .5 from just above the 

 angle, 6 from near the middle of the discocellnlars, 7, 8, 9, and 10 stalked, 

 11 short, converging into 12, which (latter) is waved and contorted; secondary, 

 cell short, veins 3 and 4 and 6 and 7 stalked, 5 from just above the angle. 



Type : Echanella ■purpurea B-B. 



140. Echanella purpurea spec. nov. 

 cJ. Head and thorax purplish brown ; abdomen chocolate-grey. Primary dark 

 purplish brown, lustrous in the contorted area ; base fawn-brown, terminating 

 irregularly with a strong acute angle along the lower margin of the cell ; postmedian 

 fawn line fine from below the costal heavy tuft of scales ; from this tuft a fawn stripe 

 to the terffiep about vein 7 ; a fine obscure subterminal irregular line rising in 



