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snbmedian; median line very broad above, wliere it contains a deep brown elongated 

 cell-spot, and constricted at the snbmedian fold ; outer line snbmarginal, sinuous, 

 from before apex to anal angle, bent outwards between vein 5 and snbmedian fold ; 

 liindmargin narrowly ochreous ; fringe ocbreons, with brown basal line. 



Hiiidwinqs : ochreous, dusted with brownish below the median: cell-spot dark 

 brown as in forewings; a faint curved median line; sulimarginal line as in fore- 

 wings; the marginal space beyond it brown; hindmargin and fringe as in forewings. 



Underside ochreons, dusted with grey ; cell-spots and a large subapical patch 

 on both wings brown. Palpi and face brownish; thorax and abdomen ochreous, 

 dusted with grey. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



One ? from Merv. An insect standing quite by itself. 



5.5. Brachycola decolorata sp. nov. 



Forewiiu/s : ochreons, finely dusted and striated with grey ; the lines diffuse, 

 grey; the first at one-fourth, curved; the second median, excnrved round cell; the 

 third dentate and obliijue ; the first and third marked with black dashes on veins; 

 snbmarginal line pale, with a grey shade on each side, the inner one interrupted; 

 marginal spots minute ; fringe concolorous ; cell-spot round, blackish. 



HimI wings : the same, but the cell-spot larger, formed of slightly raised reddish 

 white scales, with a dark ring. 



Underside ochreous, with outer line, cell-spot, and marginal dots marked. Face 

 and palpi pale ochreons below, rosy above ; vertex, antennae, thorax, and abdomen 

 all ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



One cJ from Lifn, Loyalty Islands. 



Differs from B. obriitaria Guen. in the entire absence of rosy speckling or 

 suffusion above or below. 



56. Brachycola flavareata sp. nov. 



Forewings : deep yellow, almost entirely suffused with brick-red, and along the 

 costal region thickly striated with the same colour, the unsuflnsed patches of ground- 

 colour being a small quadrate one near base of cell, a largo quadrate one beyond cell, 

 two smaller patclies on the course of the snbmarginal line, the one below apex, the 

 other at the middle, and two on the snbmedian fold ; the outer line is marked by a 

 series of black vein-dots at four-fifths ; a row of dark marginal dots between the 

 veins ; fringe brick-red ; cell-spot small, wliite. 



Hindicings : with the yellow patches much more restricted and ol)scurc ; the 

 cell-spot white. 



Underside yellowish white ; the forewings with a dull reddish suffusion in 

 centre of wing, the outer line and marginal dots reddish ; costa striated witli red ; 

 inner margin paler ; hindwings altogether jialer. Legs and palpi externally red ; 

 face ochreons, reddish above ; vertex, antennae, thorax, and abdomen red. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



One c? from I'enang, 1S90 (Curtis). 



In appearance like the S of Perixera (?) Jlavirub7-a Warr. from Queensland. 

 The hindmargin of hindwings slightly angled at middle. 



