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tiud innuing into each other ; an oblique white patch from the apex and au irregular 

 blotch beyond the cell-spot, which is deep brown-black ; a broad carved or sin nous 

 fascia can be detected beyond it, along the centre of which a dull yellow interrupted 

 line is visible ; basal patch marked with blackish and yellow scales : fringe 

 brownish grey. 



liindiciiiys : white, with a small black cell-spot; a curved postmedian row of 

 brown-grey spots, increasing in size towards the inner margin, and separated by a 

 yellow spot from another brown-grey blotch at anal angle ; a row of shallow brown 

 lunnles along margin between veins ; fringe mottled brown and white. 



Underside the same, but duller, greyer. Face and palpi black : thorax and 

 abdomen yellow, spotted with black. 



Expanse of wings : 46 mm. 



One 6 from Omei Shan, W. China, 1892. 



Svi'.FAMiLV BRACCINAE. 

 52. Stenocharta picaria s]). uov. 



Forewiiigs: deep black; beyond the cell an oblique white blotch, tlie lower 

 half between veins 2 and 4 broader than the upper; fringe black. 



Ilindicing.s: white; the base, costa, and inner margin narrowly, the hindmargin 

 broadly black. 



Underside the same. Head, thorax, and abdomen black: face, collar, and 

 forelegs white. 



Expanse of wings : 36—30 mm. 



Two SS from Kapaur, New Guinea, December 1806 (W. Duherty). 



53. Hylemera nummulifera sp. uov. 



Foretrhu/s : hyaline white in the middle, the basal area and outer half black; 

 edge of basal area vertical; edge of marginal area curved outwards from before 

 middle of costa, and inwards from submedian fold to inner margin at two-thirds; 

 top of the white area above the subcostal vein orange, above which the costal 

 margin itself is narrowly black ; in the outer black area are two round spots, the 

 upper larger and yellowish, the lower smaller and orange; fringe black; base of 

 wing yellow along submedian vein. 



Hiiidwings : white, with broad Ijlack hindmargin, containing a single round 

 orange spot close to margin between veins 3 and 4. 



Underside the same. Head and thorax blackish: abdomen grey; collar 

 crimson. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



One i from Bopoto, Upper Congo, 1806. 



•J4. Hylemera renifera sp. nov. 



Forewinga: white, semitransparent ; costal margin to subcostal vein lilack: 

 a square deep black spot before the discocellular, touching the costal streak, ami 

 prolonged as a smoky shade between veins 2 and 3 to join the dark hindmargin, 

 which is broad at apex and anal angle, narrow between: the white space between 

 central fascia and margin broadly kidney-shaped. 



