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showing through, the latter sometimes forming a pinkish blotch at costa; fringe 

 pinkish, mottled with brown-red or fuscons. 



Underside of forewing blurred grey, the costal area and outer margin red-brown 

 with pale speckling ; the snbmarginal Hue pale ami waved ; costa marked with 

 dark and light : hindwing red-brown marked with black-brown in places ; a white 

 straight antemedian baud, and indistinct curved and narrower postmedian double 

 line, tinged with brown below costa; snbmarginal white, waved, distinct. 



Face, vertex, and patagia moss-green ; palpi fuscous with pale dots; shoulders 

 and thorax velvety black with a red tinge, sides of thorax grey ; abdomen black- 

 brown, ochreous towards base and marked with red on sides; legs mottled fuscous 

 and pink ; antennae red. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



2 ? ?. 



130. Spectrobasis plumosa spec now 



Differs from the other species of the genus by the absence of all pink or 

 reddish tints, except on the legs and shoulders, and by the longer pectinations of 

 the antennae of the 6. 



Forewing : black-grey ; costal area greenish nearly to middle, then ochreous 

 with black pale-edged streaks at the lines, which are all traceable across wing, 

 rather darker than the ground-colour ; fringe ochreous, mottled with black. 



Hindwing : dull blackish ; the pale bands slightly showing through. 



Underside of forewiug dull grey; the costa greenish, with pale and dark 

 dusting, and the chief lines marked along it ; outer margin blackish ; a black 

 marginal line interrupted by the pale vein ends : hindwing dull brown, blotched 

 with black ; costa broadly greenish ; antemedian baud white, with a ragged streak 

 outwards below costa ; snbmarginal line shown by three white subapical blotches ; 

 outer line obscured. 



Face, vertex, and patagia green ; thorax deep olive-green ; shoulders reddish 

 fuscons ; abdomen ochreous dusted and belted with blackish ; forelegs reddish, 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



3 38, 2 ??. 



The longer pectinations of the antennae are characteristic. 



131. Xanthorhoe vinosa spec. nov. 



Forewing: whitish, overlaid with vinous scales ; the lines and shading darker 

 Vilnius ; basal patch small ; central fascia broad at costa, below vein 2 half as 

 wide ; the outer edge insinuate beyond cell and forming a bilobed projection 

 below middle, then running obliquely inwards ; the edges deep vinous, the centre 

 paler, and traversed by three or four waved lines ; the fascia is edged on each side 

 by a narrow pale band with dark line through it, the inner separated from basal 

 patch by a dark reddish shade ; the outer followed by a dull reddish prae- 

 submarginal band, darkest at costa and beyond cell ; snbmarginal line wavy, 

 obscurely pale ; marginal area vinous ; marginal lunnles deeper ; fringe vinous. 



Hindwing: similar, but paler, especially along costa. 



Underside dull reddish grey, the markings of upperside showing through. 



Head and thorax dark reddish : abdomen paler, with dark bands at base. 



Expanse of wings : 3G mm. 



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