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lliHchcings : white, witli hindmargin brouiUy black at apex and anal anirle, 

 narrow between, where there is a deep semicircular excision: fringes black. 

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

 Expanse of wings: :!2 mm. 

 One S from Sierra Leone, 1890. 



Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 

 o5. Darisa differens sp. nov. 



Fori icings : greyish white, thickly sjirinklwl with ochreons and fuscons striae; 

 a double curved fuscous basal line; black coll-sjiot, with dark costal spot above it, 

 indicating the median line; outer line denticulate, nearly parallel to hindmargin, 

 slightly projecting at vein 6, followed by an ochreous fuscous shade, which contains 

 a dark blotch between veins 3 and 4; submarginal lino pale, obscure, preceded by 

 dark Innnles at costa, beyond cell, and above inner margin; a row of distinit black 

 marginal spots ; fringe greyish fuscous. 



Hindwhigs : with straight antemedian line; the rest as in forewiugs. 



Underside dirty whitish, freckled with grey; the cell-spots, and two outer lines 

 indistinctly, fuscons; a dark fuscous apical blotch on forewiugs. Palpi fuscous; 

 face, thorax, and abdomen greyish white, with dark speckles. 



Expanse of wings : 58 mm. 



One S from Omei Shan, W. China, 1892. 



5(). Lassaba subdecorata sp. nov. 



Foreuings : whitish, covered with close fuscous striae, which are densest along 

 costa and hindmargin; basal area suftused with fuscous, edged by the first line at 

 one-fourth, which is curved and sinuous ; outer line sharply denticulated, from costa 

 at three-fourths to inner margin beyond middle, incurved from vein .5 to snbmedian 

 fold, then excurved: subniargiual line pale, obscure, preceded by a dark fuscous 

 dentate shade, interrupted below middle ; a marginal row of dark spots between the 

 veins ; fringe fuscons; cell-spot black. 



Ilindwings : similar, but the cell-spot large and prominent; no basal patch or 

 first line ; second line central, sinuous and dentate, followed by an ochreous shade, 

 which also appears on forewings on iuner.margin. 



Underside white; forewings with costa yellowish, with broad fuscons strigae; 

 the large cell-spot, punctiform outer line, and interrupted marginal fascia fuscous ; 

 this fascia forms an apical blotch, containing the apex itself whitish, and a blotch 

 on veins 3 and 3. Hindwings with cell-spot, a costal spot above it, the outer and 

 submarginal lines, both interrupted in middle, fuscous. Palpi and lower half of 

 face brown; upper half with vertex, thorax, and abdomen whitish, speckled with 

 fuscous: abdomen beneath and legs jiaie luteous. 



Exjianse of wings : .">>> mm. 



One S from Omei Shan, West China, 1892. 



Allied to L. olditeratu Moore from India. 



Subfamily SELIDOSEMINAE. 

 oT. Petelia farva sp. nov. 

 Forewings: fuscons brown; the costa paler, with fuscous striae; four obscure 

 brown transverse shades, basal, antemedian, postmedian, and submarginal ; the three 



