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two-fiftlis dark hiown except along costa, tlie hiiier edge sinuous and i)refeded by a 

 sinuous row of dots on veins; exterior line at three-fourths, marked by black dot> 

 above, and followed below b}' a blackish shade, curved outwards aliove middle and 

 inwards below it ; submarginal line similarly curved, and indicated by dark Iilotclies, 

 of which the two opposite the cell are prominent and black ; fringe deep brown. 



Hindwiiifjs: like forewings, but the central shade passes inside the cell-ring; 

 submarginal line pale ochreous, edged inwardly with brown, bluntly angled oiijiosite 

 the cell. 



Underside the same, except that the brown marginal area extends to the costa, 

 leaving only a small apical blotch white ; a gx'eyish white blotch on hindmargin of 

 both wings below the third median. }[ead, thorax, and abdomen all ochreous, dusted 

 with dark atoms. 



Expanse of wings : 38 — -12 mm. 



Two ? ? from Lifu. 



212. Prionia excavata sp. nov. 



Forewings: reddish, much dusted with blackish; the costa dotted and spotted 

 with black, the interspaces paler ; first line diffuse and indistinct, oblique inwards 

 from a costal blotch before middle, joined in midwing by a dark shade from a costal 

 blotch at one-fourth ; cell-spot dark, linear ; exterior line from dark costal blotcli at 

 three-fourths, excur\ed and denticulate, incurved before inner margin, followed 

 between the median nervules by two pale ochreous yellow patches ; fringe dark 

 red-brown. 



UindwilKjs : orange-yellow, paler along costa; the hindmargin and inner 

 margin diffu.sely edged with reddish and fuscous scales, the extreme inner margin 

 remaining clear yellow. 



Palpi i-eddisb, the terminal joint dark fusscous ; face dull reddish, with a small 

 whitish dot at top ; vertex whitish in front, reddish behind ; thorax and abdomen 

 reddish, mottled with grey ; shaft of antennae white. Underside of forewings dull 

 reddish, towards base tinged with orange, with the two yellow submarginal patches 

 distinct ; hindwings orange, with margin reddish. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



One ? from Nias. 



The forewings have a strongly developed prominence below the middle of 

 hindmargin, below which the margin is very oblique and incurved ; the hindmargin 

 of hindwings is .strongly excised from anal angle to end of second median nervule ; 

 veins 10 and 11 of forewings are shortly stalked. 



Allied to, but distinct from, P. midtidenUda Warr., also ft-om Kias. 



