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1T2. Hyposidra unimacula s]). nov. 



Forewings : l)r(iwu-black, with a darker spot on discocclluliir ; a]H'x witli a 

 single triangular white blotch. 

 IlindtciMis : wholly black. 



Under.side like upper. Head, thorax, and abdomen all concolorons. 

 Exi)anse of wings : 40 mm. 

 One (? from Palawan, September 1894. 



173. Omiza tortnosa sp. nov. (PI. V. fig. 24, ?). 



Forewings : pale dull olive-green, with darker green spots and blotches : two 

 irregular contorted fasciae near base, formed of dark-edg('d green bloteiies ; an 

 S-shaped mark from costa before middle to median vein, swelling out below the 

 median into a large subquadrato blotch, connected on the submedian fold witli the 

 enter of the basal fasciae and also with an oblique fascia running from before anal 

 angle towards apex ; outer half of wing filled nj) with irregular green spots : cell- 

 spot oval, jiale with dark green edge, lying parallel to iiindmargin, followed iiy a 

 dark horizontal blotch. 



Uinclwings : paler, towards the costa yellowish, witli numerous dark green 

 spots and blotches, which tend to form a submarginal and marginal fascia. Fringes 

 of both wings pale green. 



Underside of forewings yellow, with red Ijlotches on costa, in cell, and below the 

 median ; the inner margin whitish ; apical area from cell above the median vein 

 suffused with olive-green. Hindwings yellow, with blood-red s])ots and snbmarginal 

 and marginal fasciae. Palpi reddish ; face yellow ; vertex, thorax, and abdomen 

 green, the last darker along back and yellow on sides and beneath. Antennae with 

 the shaft pale and pectinations black. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



One ? from the Congo. 



Paracrocota geu. nov. 



Forevmigs : with costa gradually curved from base to apex; apex blunt, 

 rectangular ; hindmargin slightly convex. 



Jlimhvimjn : with rounded hindmargin, faintly projecting in middle. 



Antennai! of d strongly pectinated to the tiji ; palpi slender, subascending ; 

 tongue and frenulum present; forewings without fovea. 



Neuration : forewings, cell half as long as wing ; discocellular vertical in u])per 

 half, very oblique below ; first median at two-thirds, second shortly before end of 

 cell ; radials normal ; 7 and 8 stalked from before en<l of cell ; 9, 10, 11, coincident, 

 anastomosing witii the costal, 9 subse(|nently anastomosing with 8. Hindwings, 

 costal shortly approximated to subcostal ; first subcostal nervnic and second median 

 from a little before the end of cell. 



Type : Paracrocota pcrt:iata sp. nov. 



174. Paracrocota epionata sji. nov. 



Forewings: yellow, freckled with orange-tawny; the lines dark brown; first 

 from one-fourtli of costa, bent at right angles on the subcostal vein, thence straight 



