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to resemble watered silk ; termen deeply serrated with pale median streak 

 to each tooth ; a yellow quadrate spot under middle of vein 4. — - — Hindwing 

 golden bufi suffused with brown-grey. 



Length of forewing : 34 mm. Expanse: 77 mm. 



Habitat. Java. 



75. Phalera postaurantia spec nov. 



(J. Antennae black, pectinations very long ; head and thorax rufous and 

 buff mixed, patagia and patch at back of thorax grey tipped with white ; abdo- 

 men orange ringed indistinctly with brownish orange. 



Forewing vmaceous wood-brown suffused with grey and white, becoming 

 whiter towards inner margm ; a double antemedian line, inner less pronounced 

 rusty brown, outer black ; a postdiscal double line of coalescent lunules, inner 

 black, outer dark rufous ; an apical olive-buff patch below which is an irregular 



heavy black angled line. Hindwings golden orange ; edge of termen and 



nervures black. 



Length of forewing : 27 mm. Expanse : 60 mm. 



Habitat. Itumba, German East Africa (Dr. Baxter), 1 <J type ; Mpuapua, 

 German East Africa (Dr. Baxter), 1 <?. 



76. Phalera elongata spec. nov. 



(J ?. This species is distinct from all others by its long and narrow wings 

 and long silken hair on the body. 



Antennae rusty rvifous, pectinated in both sexes, shorter in $ ; head and 

 thorax golden buff, margins of tegulae and two median transverse lines deep 

 rufous, hind part of thorax clothed with long silky sooty brown hairs, patagia 

 white edged with grey ; abdomen clothed with long silky hair, basal segment 

 sooty brown, anal segment and tuft buff washed with dirty grey ; rest of abdomen 

 orange. 



Forewing brown-grey washed with pink ; base white, a subbasal black- 

 brown Ime, followed by seven indefuiite darker grey crenulate and sinuate 

 Imes ; ajiical one-fourth to veui 3 buff with darker buff clouding, bordered inwardly 

 by a bright rufous and brown double concave band, black streaks in buff on 

 veins 3 and 4. Hindwings sericeous bronzy grey-brown. 



Length of forewing : <^ 28-30 mm., $ 33 mm. Expanse : <? 62-66 mm., 

 ? 75 mm. 



Habitat. Khasia Hills, Assam, February 1896 (Nat. coll)., 2 JcJ, 1 $ (<J 

 type). 



77. Phalera inexpectata spec. nov. 



(J. Antennae black ; head cream-white ; thorax white ; tegulae, a median 

 convex band and three spots behind dirty black-brown, tegulae being palest ; 

 abdomen white washed with brownish and with broad brown rings on each 

 segment, anal tuft brownish white. 



Forewing vinaceous brown on outer one-third freckled with white scales, basal 

 two-thirds cream-white freckled densely with vmaceous scales thickest on basal 

 one-third and least in cell and round discocellulars ; base white with black dot ; 

 this freckling gives the forewing a roan appearance ; an antemedian deep purple 



