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Underside dull pale fulvous, over the whole forewing and along costa of 

 hindwing thickly dusted with fuscous ; the lines fuscous, the outer only plain ; 

 middle line browner. 



Face and palpi red-brown; vertex and collar blue-grey; thorax and abdomen 

 brown mixed with blue-grey ; shoulders darker ; abdomen yellowish at sides, 

 whitish beneath ; legs and pectus yellowish ; forelegs fulvous. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



1 ?. 



215. Petrodava gibbosa ab. rectilinea no v. 



A large series of this insect was received, including 22 cfc? and ? ?. The 

 latter all belong to the ab. subradiata, and are very dark. The <?cT include alike 

 the type form and the two aberrations rubra and interna, this latter in some fine 

 forms. One $ differs remarkably from all previously recorded Petrodava, and 

 may be distinguished as ab. rectilinea. It is intermediate between the type form 

 and rubra in colour, being uniform brownish fawn-colour, with the lines dark 

 brown ; the inner and median lines agree with those of the type, but in front of 

 the median is a nearly straight obscure line ; then instead of the usual curved and 

 waved outer line at four-fifths, a thick brown line starts from costa at six-sevenths, 

 is slightly bent on vein 6, and descends straight to before anal angle, the outline 

 of the submarginal being represented beyond it by black dashes between the veins ; 

 marginal line and fringe dark brown, in the hindwing this line is followed by a 

 reduced black blotch between 6 and 7 and a slight brownish shade. The underside 

 is deep yellow, with the lines all dark brown and distinct, especially the outer 

 straight one. 



Subfamily ENNOMINAE. 

 216. Capasa flexilinea spec. nov. 



Forewing : grey-green ; costal edge yellow, with two black-green spots, one at 

 one-third, large, the second at three-fourths, smaller ; the first represents the origin 

 of the first band, which below the subcostal is pale green with dark edges, obliquely 

 bent inwards ; its inner edge blnntly angled basewards on submedian fold and 

 outwards sharply on submedian vein ; the onter angled outwards on vein 4, then 

 parallel to inner edge, except for another angle outwards on the fold ; outer line 

 olive-green, fine and oblique outwards to vein 0, then angled and flexuous inwards, 

 below 2 vertical and pale green with dark edges, as the first line : an obscure 

 blackish line runs from apex to the angle of outer line and then along its outer 

 edge, forming a blotch between 3 and 4 and another on inner margin, throwing off 

 a curved line from the middle blotch to another at anal angle ; fringe pale grey- 

 green, fuscous at apex and anal angle. 



Hindwing: with costa and inner margin yellow ; the bent green band central, 

 the dark submarginal line incurved and interrupted at middle. 



Underside of forewing yellow at base, suffused with fulvous brown beyond, the 

 lines and inner margin dark olive-grey : hindwing deep yellow, with the lines and 

 a cell-blotch olive-grey. 



Palpi fulvous ; face and tips of palpi black ; vertex, collar, and antennae pale 

 grey-green ; thorax and dorsum darls grey-green, like wings ; abdomen at sides 

 and beneath and legs deep yellow ; tarsi and front of tibiae blackish, 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm, 



7 c?cJ. 



