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vein, then oblique inwards, edged on both sides with velvety Mack; the basal 

 area more or less blackish ; outer line at two-thirds, starting from subcostal vein 

 and miming slightly oblique inwards and outcurved from vein 2, white, edged on 

 both sides by a broad band of blackish olive curving with the line, this outer band 

 separated by a straight narrower band of ground-colour from an exterior band of 

 velvety blackish tilling up the lunules of submarginal line, which is finely white; 

 vein.-, all thickly olive rufous ; marginal luuules black: fringe brown; the brown 

 inner half of central area is sprinkled with pearly scales, especially in the ¥. 



Hindwing : dull whitish at base, becoming dark grey beyond an outer curved 

 dark line; cell-spot dark. 



Underside brownish grey, darker in forewing ; cell-spots and outer lines 

 blackish ; the ? is darker, more fuscous brown. 



Head and thorax rufous olive like wings ; patagia mixed with blackish in the ? ; 

 metathoracic tuft double ; abdomen glossy, ochreous grey ; legs mottled fuscous 

 and ochreous. 



Expanse of wiugs : S 44 mm. ; ? 48 mm. 



2 t?<?,l ?. 



There is a small white spot at base of forewing below median, as in 



'/'. marcescens ; the antennae of the ? are pectinated. 



208. Tolmera sordida spec. uov. 



Forewing : fuscous with darker fuscous brown markings ; resembling the 

 type species T. albibasis ; but the basal line is not rounded, but angled as in 

 marcescens and regulata, and the outer line is not outcurved in its upper course. 



Hindwing : paler than in albibasis, with the outer line not so near the outer 

 margin. 



Underside dull greyish brown, with the markings very indistinct. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen paler than in albibasis. 



Expanse of wings : 44 mm. 



3 <J<J. 



209. Trochistis periculosa spec. uov. and ab. inconspicua nov. 

 Forewing: grey-brown, as in T. fuluplaga, and like it speckled with tine 

 black- and white scales ; with three darker cross-lines, basal, inner, and outer, but 

 all curved from costa, not straight; a bright round pinkish yellow, red-speckled 

 spot on inner margin before basal line, followed by a small white dot on the 

 submedian fold; smaller, more irregular, spots of same colour, indicating a 

 submarginal line, on vein and between veins 3 and 4 ; cell-spot white ; fringe 

 concolorons. 



Hindwing : similar, without basal markings ; with two liues and the red 

 submarginal spots. 



Underside pale ochreous, with grey speckling and a brown marginal baud ; 

 black marginal spots as above. 



Head, thorax, ami abdomen rufous brown : anal segment ochreous with a 

 black spot above ; abdomen beneath and legs pale ochreous. 



In two examples the bright pink spots ate absent, replaced by a rufous tinge 

 only, but the while subbasal dot is always present ; these are ab. inconspicua. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



8 SS. 



