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Jlindnimjs : with an angiilated median line, jdimibeons, edged inwardly by a 

 tliin rnst-colonred line, and preceded by a black cell-sjiot : marginal area somewhat 

 clouded with darker, with traces of a dark blotch beyond the angle of the line. 



Underside less speckled, the lines obscurer. Head, thorax, and abdomen straw- 

 colour. 



Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 



One ? from Warri, Hiver Niger, February 1896 (Dr. lloth). 



2T8. Fasceliina aurifera sp. nov. 



Foreu-ings : dull purplish brown, striated in j)arts with darker, and with paler 

 ochraceons tints ; an oblique dark line at one-third, bent at costa ; an oblique diffuse 

 dark median shade; costa between these two lines with a shallow pinkish grey patch, 

 irrorated with dark ; some gilded ochreons scales below it ; a wavy dark brown outer 

 line from inner margin at two-tliirds, retracted to costa and acutely angled outwards 

 below apex ; the costa beyond it pinkisli grey ; a broad gilded ochreons submarginal 

 shade ; margin itself and fringe brown ; the excisions on outer and inner margins 

 very shallow and inconspicuous. 



Hindicimis : brownish ochreons, with scattered dark striae ; a very wavy dark 

 postmedian line, preceded by a dull burnished central fascia ; an obscurely waved 

 dark submarginal line ; margin and fringe deep brown. 



Underside of forewings ochreons and yellow, thickly covered with fine jiurple 

 striae ; the costa yellow ; the central baud vinous red ; outer line and marginal area 

 red-brown ; submarginal shade gilded yellow : hiudwiugs deep 3'ellow, with purplish 

 striae along costa, and two wavy and interrupted postmedian purjjlish lines, 

 coalescing towards inner margin ; hindmargin irregularly purple. Pectus and basal 

 half of abdomen below yellow. Face and palpi red-brown ; thorax black-brown, 

 paler in front ; abdomen cinereous, becoming very deep fuscous towards apex. 



Expanse of wings : 3s mm. 



One c? from Jlouut Mulu, North Borneo (Hose). 



279. Heterolocha spurcata sp. nov. 



Forewings : yellowish ochreons, with numerous dark fuscous transverse strigae; 

 first line from a large costal blotch at one-third to inner margin at one-fourth, dark 

 fuscous ; second line from five-sixths of costa to inner margin at two-thirds, with a 

 large dark fuscous and black blotch beyond it between veins 2 and 4. 



Ilindirings : with a dark curved submarginal line. 



Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. 



Expanse of wings : 28 mm. 



One ? from Weenen, Natal. 



The only example is very mucli worn, and the description is necessarily some- 

 what deficient. 



280. Heteromiza vinilinea sj). nov. 



Forewings: fawn-colour, with fine fuscous irroration ; an oblique exterior pale 

 line, edged internally with red-brown and marked by minute dark dots on the veins, 

 simply curved below costa, not angulated as in JI. caatanearia Moore, from costa 

 shortly before apex to inner margin at two-thirds, produced across hindwings as a 

 median line ; fringe of both wings concolorous ; no cell-spots or inner line. 



