( 168 ) 



Srm-AMiLY BRAOCINAE. 

 174. Arycanda brunneotacta spec. nov. 



Forewing : dull purplish grey, finely black-speckled; the lines blackish, 

 donble ; the basal bent in cell, the outer ou vein C, both thicker and more blotched 

 towards costa ; snbmarginal also double, but more macular and interrupted, always 

 between 3 and 4 ; marginal lunnles black ; fringe concolorons ; both folds more or 

 less distinctly streaked with brown ; cell-spot curved and slender, yellow with black- 

 edges ; some yellow scales between the blotches of the snbniargiual line, most 

 distinct in the ?. 



Hindwing: similar; the yellow dot in snbmargiual line always plain beyond 

 cell. 



Underside dnll dark slate-colour, without markings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dull slate-colour. 



Expanse of wings : J 40 mm. ; ? 45 mm. 



1 <S, 1 ?. 



Allied to fulmradiata, but much smaller and more obscurely marked. 



175. Arycanda discipuncta spec. nov. 



Forewing : bluish slate-colour, with no markings but a small round cell-spot ; 

 fringe concolorons. 



Hindwing : the same. 



Underside darker slate. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen all concolorons. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



1 ?. 



176. Arycanda infans spec. nov. 



Forewing: dull dark slate-colour, speckled with darker; lines dull blackish ; 

 inner line at one-fourth, outer at three-fifths, both curved, the latter lnnnlate- 

 dentate; median line less clear, touching the dark-edged ocelloid cell-spot, 

 sometimes touching basal line below middle ; beyond the outer line a diffuse 

 curved brown shade, followed by two submarginal lines, of which the inner is 

 plainer and darker, consisting of spots between veins ; marginal spots blackish ; 

 fringe concolorons. 



Hindwing : like forewing, but without the 1 lasal line. 



Underside uuiform bluish slate-colour. 



Head, thorax and abdomen slate-colour spotted with blackish. 



Expanse of wings ; S 30 mm. ; ? 32 mm. 



1J,5??. 



177. Arycanda mixtilinea spec. nov. 



Forewing : dark slaty purplish, crossed by curved series of black spots and lines, 

 often much mixed ; two spots close to base, followed by four in an angled series ; 

 three lines of coalescent spots, antemedian, median, and postmediau, obliqne out- 

 wards above cell and inwards below it ; between the first and second one or two spots 

 on each side of the discocellular ; the spots and lines in the cell are often irregularly 

 mixed ; a series of large confluent elongate blotches between the veins, followed by 



