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Pace and palpi black ; vertex and autenual shaft white ; thorax and abdomen 

 like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 

 4c? <J, 1 ?. 



41. Dirades brunnea spec. nov. 



Forewing : brown ; the ground-colour split up into three longitudinal wedge- 

 like streaks from base to onter margin by two dark grey patternless similar spaces 

 along the folds ; costal streak above subcostal vein dark fuscous, the edge dotted 

 with white ; across the middle of the wing runs a dark brown curved fascia with 

 still darker edges, not visible except across the brown portions ; two slight black 

 dots close before apex ; fringe dark grey, with paler basal and dividing lines. 



Hindwing : brown, with a large snow-white semi-oval costal blotch from near 

 base to before apex, below which the deeper brown fascia runs as far as submedian 

 fold, its dark edges slightly protruding into the white ; the furrow grey, with the 

 tuft of hairs ochreous and broad ; from the base of tuft to base of wing a long 

 hyaline slit lies in a pale triangular space ; along outer margin from 7 to 4 a broad 

 dark grey lustrous belt, really formed of three coalesceut lunules, containing pale 

 dots at the vein ends. 



Underside of forewing dull cinereous ; of hindwing white, with the basal and 

 apical costal tufts grey ; the marginal line and fringe also grey from apex to 

 vein 4, below white. 



Face, palpi, and forelegs black ; vertex and base of antennae snow-white ; 

 shoulders dark fuscous ; thorax and abdomen grey-brown ; the anal tuft ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



1 S. 



The outer margin of hindwing is bent at vein 7, and again below vein 4. 



42. Dirades semicarnea spec, nov. 



Forewing: whitish grey, somewhat glossy, shaded with darker in the basal 

 area, along costa, and before apex, and thickly dusted with dark grey atoms ; a 

 slight cloudy grey cell-spot, preceded by a small pale space; outer line at quite 

 two-thirds, blackish edged with pale, angled outwards below 8 and inwards on the 

 cell-fold, where it is marked by a dark spot, then ontcurved and interrupted, endino- 

 beyond middle of inner margin in a horseshoe-shaped spot, which is rilled up 

 with dark grey and outwardly edged with black ; a subniarginal line of black 

 spots between veins from apex to anal angle, those below middle elongated ; anal 

 angle in <S tinged with flesh-colour, in ? with blackish and pink ; fringe dark grey. 



Hindwing : in S dull flesh-colour, with an outer white line straight from 

 costa to vein 5, then bent inwards, internally dark-edged, and with the veins 

 across it white ; vein 4 edged with black scales from base, the inner margin 

 below vein 1 the same ; the furrow between and the contained pencil of hair white ; 

 submarginal black dots minute, that between 4 and 5 on a white spot: in ? dark 

 grey, above the middle blackish ; the two lines whitish, both angled on vein 4, 

 the space between them, except on inner margin, black, with the veins grey ; base 

 below middle also black ; submarginal dots black. 



Underside of forewing pale grey, of hindwing in S white, in ? whitish, with 

 greyer margin. 



