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€dges obliijue aud wavy, white ; the red lines of the fascia close together, forming 

 two red bands, embracing a central pale olive-ochreons space ; marginal area greyish, 

 tinged with fnscoas towards the edge, the dentate lines indistinct: a darker costal spot 

 before the pale apical streak ; hindwings with the markings more distinct, and 

 coloured towards inner margin. 



Expanse of wings : ? , 36 — 38 mm. ; S, 32 — 30 mm. 



One cJ, four ? $ , from North Luzon (Whitehead). 



Very mucli like a large X.fernigata CI. 



liwi. Xanthorhoe dissociata ali. nigrimedia uov. 



In this aV)erration the transverse lines are nearly all absent ; the basal patch is 

 TufoDS, edged with white ; the central fascia black-brown, with the dark lines distinct 

 only towards costa, edged by a white line and followed )iy a pinkish white space in 

 which the lines are marked by a pair of dots on each vein ; the margin suffused 

 with dark fuscous ; tlie costal sjiot black-brown. Hindwings and underside as in 

 the type. Abdomen grey, with a bright red basal band. 



One S from X. Luzon. 



Hardly recognisable at first as being the same species ; but the luiderside is 

 precisely the same as in the tj-pe-form. 



167. Xanthorhoe dissociata ab. iniptifascia nov. 



Forewings wholly dull reddish brown, the lines faintly darker ; central fascia 

 shaded with brown towards costa, aud ^^•ith a lilack horizontal blotch from edge to 

 edge above the median, and a smaller black blotch below submedian, not reaching 

 the outer edge ; apical streak hardly paler ; the costal blotch reddish brown. 



One S from N. Luzon. 



168. Xanthorhoe everetti sp. nov. 



S. Foreu'ings : dull grey, dusted with darker grey: the markings brownish 

 grey ; basal patch narrow, its outer edge straight, [aud traversed by two or three 

 straight dark lines ; central fascia with the inner edge curved, the outer slightly bent 

 below costa, and with a blunt prominence on vein 4, formed of two smaller fasciae, 

 which meet on the median, enclosing above it an irregular oval pale space, on the 

 inside edge of which lies the black cell-spot, and above the inner margin two narrow 

 annnli ; these fasciae are sometimes marked with blackish sutTusiou above the 

 median ; submarginal line indistinct, pale, and wavy ; both the pale interspaces and 

 the darker fasciae are traversed by numerous wavy darker lines ; marginal line 

 formed of pairs of dark spots ; fringe grey. 



Hindwings: paler dull grey, with numerous transverse curved lines, which are 

 chiefly visible on inner margin, forming a broadish central and narrower submarginal 

 fascia ; cell-spot black, before the edge of the central fascia. 



Underside dull cinereous, with tlie cell-spots and edges of the fascia blackish. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen all dull grey, tinged with brownish. 



In the ? the ground-colour is paler, somewhat tinged with olive, while the 

 dark markings are more decidedly reddish ; all the lines and markings much more 

 concise ; the fascia margined on both sides with a narrow black-edged whitish line. 



Expanse of wings : d", 30 mm. ; ? , 32 mm. 



