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8(1. Hyposidra variabilis sp. nov. 



? . Fweiviiifjs : dull grey-brown, freckled witli darker and varied \vi(h ferruginous, 

 the latter tint being confined to a wavy subniarginal fascia and the inner margin ; 

 traces of two darker brown lines, one straight and oblique in middle, the other beyond 

 it and strongly excurved. 



Hindmugs : more or less freckled witli pale grey and ferruginous, with two dark 

 curved central lines and a ferruginous subapioal costal blotch. 



Underside dull dark brown, with two dark lines on each wing. Head, Ihorax, 

 and abdomen concolorous. 



cJ like ?, hut with the markings cleaver; the ferruginous suliai>ical patcli 

 marked on upperside ; discal spots black above and below. 



ab. pallida ab. nov. 



S  Ferruginous ochreous, with the costal region fuscous ; a dark brown-black curved 

 mark from inner margin close to base to middle of wing; a thick brown-black slightly 

 bent line from middle of costa to middle of inner margin ; the exterior line marked 

 by dots from the costa, but becoming brown-black at inner margin, and followed by 

 an undulating line at anal angle ; the centre of inner and hindmargin pale ochreous. 

 In a second example of this form the lines are less distinct, bnt the central one 

 is contiguous to a round lilack blotch on inner margin. Uuder.side testaceous ochreous, 

 freckled with darker, and with the two lines and discal spots dark. 



ab. nubilosa ab. nov. 



S. Darker, more suffused with purplish, with the lines darker; apex of forewings 

 dark purplish beyond the usual ferruginous patch; a purplish brown cloud at anal 

 angle, with undulating edge reacliing middle of wing. In a second example this 

 cloud is restricted to a V-shaped mark at anal angle. Underside dull slaty grey, witli 

 the lines and freckles black. 



All the forms agree in having a ferruginous submargiual liand distinct on the 

 underside of forewings, and on the upperside towards the anal angle on the inner 

 margin of hindwiugs a small pale blotch, edged above by a doulile black line, and 

 below by a ferruginous patch. 



Expanse of wings : ? , 64 — 72 mm. ; S , 44 — 48 mm. 



Two 5 $, six SS, from Fergusson I.sland, October to December. 



Related to //. incoviptaria Wlk., from Aru, and //. corlicala ^^'lk., from 'i'undano. 



Note. — Since this paper was sent to press I have discovered that two species have 

 been already described. C'omostola fiavichicta, p. 288, is the same as G. neseidaria 

 Snellen, from Celebes. Borhacha jxtrviscripta, p. 290, originally described on 

 p. 130, is identical with Onychodea euchrysa Lower, the type of which, now in the 

 Tring Museum, I have lately seen. This will stand as Borhacha euchrysa Lower. 



