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137. Ptychopoda nigrosticta sp. nov. 



Foreicings : ochreons, (lusted with fine blackish atoms : a ilistiiict dark cell- 

 spot ; first line and median line only indicated by blackish scales on costa : outer 

 line at three-fourths, curved near costa, and marked by minute dark vein-dots; fringe 

 concolorous, with a pale line at base, followed by a row of comparatively large 

 black dots. 



Ilimhrintjs : the same, but without any distinct line. 



Underside yellower ; the forewings with the basal half, except on inner margin, 

 dark brown-grey. Face and jialpi dark brown : thorax and abdomen ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 12 mm. 



One d from AVcenen, Natal, Octolier 180.5. 



The cell of forewings is two-thirds as long as wing, of hindwings one-half. In 

 the forewings vein 1 1 rises very far back, before middle of cell, and is bent down to 

 anastomose with the stalk of the other four subcostals, which also rises well before 

 the end of cell. In hindwings the two subcostals are short-stalked. 



138. RhodostropMa muricolor sp. nov. 



Forewings : greyish mouse-colour : in the cJ without any markings ; a slight 

 black cell-spot ; fringe paler. 



Hindwings : paler, towards the costa tinged with ochreous, with traces of post- 

 median and submarginal grey lines. 



? darker, dusted with fuscous atoms ; an obscure oblique inner line, a faintly 

 double nearly straight postmedian, and slightly sinuous submarginal line, all darker 

 than the ground-colour ; cell-spot distinct; hindwings strongly tinged with ochreous 

 towards apex and paler, with the postmedian and submarginal lines distinct. 



Underside more yellowish, with the outer lines marked. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen concolorous with wings, the abdomen somewhat paler. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



A pair from Simla, August 1896. 



139. Somatina figurata sj). nov. 



Forewinrjs : whitish, thickly dusted with grey atoms; the lines dark grey; first 

 at one-third, vortical and somewhat waved ; outer at three-fourths, fine and wavy, 

 parallel to hindmargin, except the costal portion, which runs obliquely outwards ; 

 preceded by a thicker dentate median shade, excurved round cell ; cell-spot an 

 oblique figure of 8, filled up with olive-fuscous and finely edged with metallic scales; 

 submarginal line pale, waved, between two dark fuscous grey Innulate fasciae; a fine 

 black marginal line, swelling out into spots between the veins and with a larger 

 dark mark opposite the cell ; fringe white. 



Himhrings : similar, but the cell-spot narrower and elongate. 



Underside white, with a submarginal row of dark dots on the veins ; costa of 

 forewings rosy. Palpi, face, and forelegs rosy ; lower part of face whitish ; vertex 

 and shaft of antennae white ; collar ferruginous ; thorax and abdomen white, the 

 latter with a black mark on anal segment. 



Expanse of wings : 34 mm. 



One cJ from Weenen, Natal, December 1S93. 



