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112. Pisoraca festiva Warr. 

 Perixem{?) fsstiea Warr., Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 00. $ (1906). 



A series of 10 6 6 and 1 ? from Biagi shows that this insect is a Pisoraca; 

 the discocellnlar spots of hindwing vary mnch in colour and size. 



113. Pisoraca rufiplaga ab. fasciata nov. and ab. nigriversa uov. 



The insect described by me in Soc. Zool. x. p. 307 (1903) as Mesotropke ! 

 rufiplaga,wa& that in Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 01 (1906) as Perixera? stabilata, both ? ?, 

 prove to belong to one and the same species, of which the hindtibia of the 6 has 

 the three spurs of Pisoraca. Taking 1'. rufiplaga as the type, stabilata must be 

 considered an aberration ; to which I now add two more. 



The aberration fasciata has no dark markings (except sometimes the cell-spot, 

 of hindwing), but the space between median ami outer lines and the marginal space 

 beyond submarginal line both stand out as greyer fasciae. In the aberration 

 nigriversa the reddish blotches of the type are changed to black, but the blotch 

 beyond the cell is not represented. 



A long series, including 1 6 of the type form and 1 ¥ of aberration nigriversa, 

 3 66, 3 ? ¥ of aberration futsviata, and 5 tJcT, 3 ? ? of Stabilata. 



114. Pisoraca tenuis spec. nov. 



Forewing : fawn-colour, sometimes brownish- or reddish-tinged, very finely 

 dusted with darker; the veins sometimes showing darker; lines obscure, marked 

 only by small dark dots on veins, the inner near base and the outer near margin ; 

 cell-spot small, linear, on upper half of discocellnlar ; fringe rather paler, with 

 minute dark dots at margin between the veins; a faintly darker sinuous median 

 shade. 



Hindwing: more thinly scaled; and without inner row of dots. 



Underside pale flesh-colour, redder in forewing, with the marginal dots plainer ; 

 the others showing through. 



Face, palpi, and forelegs above dull reddish, pale below ; vertex, thorax, and 

 abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 28 — 30 mm. 



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1 1 5. Ptychopoda biagita spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull brick-red, the bands and dusting olive-ochreous ; costal streak 

 ochreous ; basal band curved from one-fourth of Costa to one-third of inner margin, 

 the area within it mainly ochreons ; outer band at three-fourths, vertical, outeurved 

 from 4 to submediau fold ; submarginal, more waved, to anal angle; a pale band 

 along outer margin ; fringe ochreous, with dark dots on base at the vein ends ; 

 cell-spot blackish, distinct. 



Hindwing: similar; the inner margin with ochreous scales. 



Underside ochreous; the dark areas slightly marked in reddish; cell-spots 

 large and plain. 



Face and palpi externally dark purple-brown ; thorax and abdomen ochreous, 

 the latter belted with reddish ; vertex and antennae ochreous ; middle tibiae with 



