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98. Gasterocome subfasciata sp. nov. 

 Fovewings : pale brownish ochreons, varied with darker brown ; the three 

 lines indistinct, being lost in the brown fasciae accompanying them, but all three 

 starting from concise black-brown costal spots at one-fonrth, two-fifths, and two- 

 thirds respectively ; the lines are deuticnlate and rnn parallel to hindmargin ; the 

 shade preceding the submargiual line externally deuticnlate, and starting from a 

 large brown costal blotch, which is followed on costa by two small blotches ; a row 

 of triangular dark marginal spots between the veins ; fringe concolorous. 



Hindirings : with pale ochreous base ; a dark brown line at one-fifth ; a 

 distinct deutated diirk postmediau lino, ajiproaching first line on inner margin, 

 the included space darker brown containing a black cell-spot ; the postmedian line 

 is finely edged with pale and then a brown cloud ; submarginal line and marginal 

 area as in forewings. 



Underside pale ochreous with grey striations ; a brown-grey submarginal 

 fascia, joining margin ojijKjsite cell ; cell-spots and costal spots of forewiug brown 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen brown and ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



One 6 from Penang, April I89s (Curtis). 



The double tuft of hair beneath on the basal segment of abdomen is blackish 

 and submetallic. 



99. Maidana pallidiplaga s^i. miv. 

 Forewings : pale greyish ochreons, thickly dusted witli minute black atoms; 

 the costa with dense blackish striae : frrst line at one-fourth, marked generally by 

 black vein-spots ; second line from three-fonrths of costa to three-fifths of inner 

 margin, slightly curved, marked also by black vein-dots : a straight oblique median 

 shade from two-thirds of costa to middle of inner margin, sometimes hardly visible, 

 at others strongly marked in blackish ; cell-spot linear, blackish : submarginal line 

 pale, indistinct, except when preceded by a dark dentate shade, but always forming 

 a pale oval blotch between veins 3 and 4, and sometimes followed by a black spot 

 below apex ; a marginal row of black spots ; fringe concolorous ; the narrow space 

 between median and outer lines is generally paler than the rest of the wing. 

 Hindwitigti : without first line ; the postmedian denticulate. 

 Underside ])aler and greyer ; with black cell-spots and denticulate postmedian 

 line. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous with wings. 

 Expanse of wings : $ 4(J mm. ; ? 44 mm. 



Two Si from Rossel Island, February— March 1898 (Meek); eight Si, 

 2 ? ?, from Sudest Island, April Isiis (Meek). The single typical ? is darker 

 marked than the ii, and in particular has the dark edging of the submarginal 

 line more distinct both above and below. The other ? is so strongly marked as 

 to require a distinct aberrational name. 

 sh. fumipicta nov. 



Ground-colour yellow-ochreous, with the basal line and patch, the oblique 

 median line, and marginal third beyond and including the outer line dark smoky 

 fuscous ; the costal area and a small oval patch between veins 3 and 4, as well 

 as the extreme hindmargin ochreous ; hindwings with the central band and 

 marginal third smoky fuscous, the hindmarginal area, especially towards anal angle, 

 slightly varied with ochreous. 



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