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CI. Xanthorhoe ludifica sp. nov. 



(J. Forewings : white or greyish white ; basal patch small, grej', with curved 

 darker edge : central fascia blackish, narrow, its inner edge blnntly angled, or some- 

 times only curved, on the submcdiau fold, its enter waved and forming two very 

 slight prominences between veins 3 and 4 ; three waved lines traverse the fascia, 

 one beyond the inner edge, two before the outer, leaving a paler central space at 

 costa ; band on either side of fascia white, traversed first by a fine line, hardly 

 distinguishable except at costa, and thou by a distinct waved and dentate grey- 

 brown line ; snbmarginal line finely lunulate, whitish, between two dark grey 

 shades, the first of which is darker at costa, beyond cell, and in the submedian fold, 

 the latter only below apex, where it forms an oblique edge to a pale streak from 

 apex ; marginal line formed of pairs of black dashes ; fringe iron-grey, the basal 

 half darker. 



Ilimlwingg: silky whitish, slightly greyish-tinged along inner and hiud 

 margins ; a slight dark cell-spot, and traces of grey lines on inner margin ; marginal 

 dots as on forewings ; fringe paler. 



Undersi<le dull greyish, with the markings reproduced but dull. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen grey; thorax and vertex darker; abdomen with jiairs of dark spots. 



Expanse of wings : 32 mm. 



The above description is taken from the palest form : two out of the four 3 S 

 have the white ground-colour clouded with greyish, and all the black tints reduced, 

 so that the central fascia remains black only at its edges above the median and at 

 inner margin, the cell-spot appearing In a whitish costal space, and the veins being 

 marked in black ; of this pale form there is no ? . 



A second form, which I shall call ab. nubilosa, has the whole forewing 

 suflnscd in the S with rufous grey, in the ? with browuisli ochreous, and the outer 

 edge of the central fascia is strongly produced and rectangularly bent in the middle. 

 One (?, one ? . 



A third form, ab. incognita, has the whole forewing uniform grey, with the 

 edges of the central fascia and the snbmarginal line a little paler, the central fascia 

 liluntly bilobedin the middle ; of this there are two ? ? only. In all three ? ? the 

 central fascia is wider than in the S i- 



In the hindwings and underside both aberrations agree precisely with tlic i)alc 

 type-form. 



Five SS, three ? ?, from Mount Arjuno, Java (W. Doherty). 



Subfamily ABRAXINAE. 

 62. Abraxas baccata sp. nov. 

 Forewings : white ; the markings dark fuscous, with a slight ferruginous tinge; 

 the costal area, including the greater part of the cell, the inner margin as far as the 

 submedian fold, and a sinuous fascia from costa before apex to beyond middle of 

 inner margin, all fuscous ; the last contains a deeper brownish shade : its outer edge 

 towards anal angle is irregularly produced along the veins in the shape of confluent 

 spots ; hindmargin with a series of contiguous lunules, leaving an irregular-edged 

 narrow white space from apex to anal angle, the apex itself yellowish ; cell-spot 

 large, round, fuscous, with a black ferruginous-tinged centre, touching costal streak, 

 and followed by two or three small round spots ; a wliitish or yellowish spot on costa 

 towards apex ; fringe fuscous, white at apex. 



