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near to hiudmargin. Palpi, face, and forelegs briglit red : vertex white : head, 

 thorax, and abdomen green. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One (S from Sierra Leone. 



lu the forewings the costa is convex towards apex, which is sabfalcate : hiud- 

 margin obliqne, hardly curved ; hindwings bluntly elbowed. 



Allied til Saalmiiller's decessata from Madagascar, occurring also iu Abyssinia. 



149. Traminda rufa sji. nov. 



Forewimjs : pinkish ochreous, thickly dusted with pink, either bright or greyisli : 

 first line at most indicated by three reddish brown dots ; second line darker pink or 

 reddish, from costa at three-fourths, below which it is slightly curved, to inner margin 

 beyond middle, followed by a paler shade and a similarly obliiiue row of reddish dots : 

 cell-spot white, small ; fringe concolorous. 



Hituhvimis : the same, but with the cell-spot large and edged thickly with red- 

 brown, touching the oblique line, which is antemedian. 



Underside lil^e upper, but with coarser mottliugs and no oblique line. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen pink : the vertex whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



Three cj <S from Weenen, Natal. 



Saalmiiller's decessata from Madagascar must be very much like this sjiecies, 

 but green instead of pink ; and as the species of this group occnr of both colours, 

 this may be a local form. 



Subfamily ASTHENINAE. 

 150. Agnibesa venusta sp. nov. 



Foreivings : with the white gronnd-col(,)ur almost wholly hidden by chestnut 

 and grey suifusion ; basal area with three pairs of thick strongly curved chestnut 

 lines, alternating with silvery grey lines, the last of the latter being silvery white ; 

 a broad median chestnut fascia, tinged with orange on costa and towards its inner 

 €dge, traversed by a single angled silvery grey line ; marginal area purplish grey, 

 traversed by a narrow indistinct, a broader more distinct, and a still broader more 

 rufous-tinged marginal dark grey band, all bent, correspondingly witli the edge of 

 the median fascia, opposite the cell, the interval on each side of the central more 

 distinct band becoming white on the costa ; below the submedian fold the median 

 fascia and the outer bands are obsolete, the inner margin becoming white ; fringe 

 rufous grey, white below. 



Hindwing.s : white, wilh abroad antemedian and postmedian and double sub- 

 marginal olive-grey band. 



Underside of forewings dull purple-brown, witli the inner margin and some costal 

 Ijlotches whitish : hindwings white. Head and thorax chestnut ; abdomen white. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



Two 6 6 from Sikkim, July 1889 (Pilcher %.). 



