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The antennae of the S are lamellate, and ijnite simple, witlunit a trace of 

 pnljescence ; in Gnenee's Australian genus l<llo<h'.s, which is otherwise very nearly 

 related, they arc ciliated ; and the fovea is wanting. 



Expanse of wings : 39 mm., the same as the ? . 



ino. Hyposidra caesia sp. nov. 



Forewimjs : slaty black, with an obscure darker curved inner line and oblique 

 postmedian one ; a large deep black spot on discocellular ; a small white spot on 

 costa at two-thirds, a square white blotch between veins 3 and 4, and a similar one 

 on inner margin at two-thirds ; fringe concolorous, with a fine pale basal line. 



Ilinclwings : with a wlute bar from vein to inner margin, the same width as 

 the white spots of forewings. 



Underside with the costal spot of forewings absent, and that on the inner margin 

 dull. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



One cJ from Penang, 1890 (Curtis). 



ITi). Hyposidra linearis sp. nov. 



Forewings : ochreons ^yellow, dusted witli brownisli ; the costa brown at base : 

 the lines brown ; first at one-third, angled below costa, then obliqne to inner margin 

 at one-fourth : second at two-tliirds, oblique and slightly bent on the median to 

 inner margin before middle, joined along inner margin to first line by a brown 

 shade ; submarginal line indistinct, except towards a])ex, where it is marked by 

 brown blotches between the veins ; apical region tinged with brown ; fringe brownish 

 ochreons, deep brown towards apex. 



Hindwings : yellower, with an indistinct central brown line, and traces of ante- 

 median and submarginal lines. 



Underside brighter, with the markings jilainer, deep brown. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen ochreons ; front of thorax tinged with fawn-colour. 



Expanse of wings : 28—32 mm. 



Two (?c? from Natal (A. J. Sjiiller). 



ITl. Hyposidra nivitacta ^^p. nnv. 



Forewing.s : whitish, so thickly clouded and dusted with olive-fuscous scales as 

 to appear of that shade dusted with white ; a clear white elongated blotch towards 

 the end (jf cell beneath the subcostal vein ; a large milk-white costal blotch at three- 

 fourths, not (piite reaching apex ; from its inner corner an interrupted whitish line, 

 formed by blotches between the veins, runs to hindmargin above anal angle ; fringe 

 fuscous, tip])ed with white between the veins ; cell-spot and veins darker. 



llnulwings : without white blotches ; a dark median sliade, and dentate paler 

 postmedian curved line : the sjjaco between the two lines somewhat deei)er cidoured. 



Underside similar. Head, thorax, and abdomen all fuscous. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



One c? from Indrulaman, Bonthain, 2300 feet, Octolier 1895 (A. Everett). 



