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also by aggregations of black atoms on the veins; median shade obscnre, denticulate; 

 the whole basal half of wing as far as this shade more or less suffused with dull 

 grey ; outer line throad-like, lunulatc, the teeth externally marked by blackish vein- 

 dots ; submarginal line pale, distinct, between two dull grey shades, and forming 

 a sinus inwards opposite cell and on snbmedian ibid; marginal sjjots black, distinct; 

 fringe concolorons ; cell-spot a round black anunlus. 



Hindwings : the same, without iirst line. 



Underside paler ; only the outer line and marginal dots expressed. Falpi and 

 face black; vertex, shoulders and antennae, bone-colour; thorax and abdomen the 

 same, but both thickly sjirinkled with black atoms. 



Expanse of wings : 21 mm. 



One (? from Dammer Island, December 1898 (H. Kilhn). 



01. Craspedia ocellata sp. nov. 



Foretoint/s : dull whitish, finely dusted with dark atoms ; costa tinged with 

 grey ; the lines grey, diffuse, thickened on costa, sometimes ochreous tinged ; 

 first at one-fourth, slightly dentate on subcostal and median veins ; median strongly 

 dentate, outcurved beyond cell and inflected below ; cell-spot large and blackish, 

 preceded by a curved grey line, but surrounded by pale scales so as to appear 

 ocellated ; exterior line at three-fourths, finer and denticulate, marked by black 

 dots on veins externally, and inflected beyond cell and on snbmedian fold ; space 

 between it and the pale submarginal line filled up by a lunnlate grey fascia, which 

 is interrupted beyond cell and on snbmedian fold ; a row of black marginal lunules ; 

 fringe concolorons, with a broad darker interrupted line near base. 



Hindwings : the same, but without first line. 



Underside smooth ; grey in forewings, paler in hindwings, with dark cell-spots ; 

 fringe paler beyond a slightly darker basal line. Face and palpi blackish ; vertex 

 white : thorax and abdomen like wings. 



E.xpanse of wings : 19 mm. 



A series from Tambora, Sambava, April— May 1896, 2500— 4U00 feet (Doherty.) 



Worn specimens appear very much whiter. 



•yz. Craspedia spissitarsata sii. nov. 



Forewings: ochreous, thickly but very finely dusted with blackish; costal 

 edge blackish from base ; the lines dark grey ; first at one-fourth, curved, rarely 

 plain ; second and third nearly parallel to one another from three-fifths and 

 three-fourths of costa to three-fifths and five-sixths of inner margin respectively, 

 both angled on veiu 0, the latter marked by distinct black vein-dots, and slightly 

 bent outwards below ; submarginal line pale, very indistinct ; marginal spots 

 black, linear; cell-spot black, tlistinct : fringe ochreous. 



Hindwings : similar, but without first line. 



Underside ochreous, \vithout dusting, the forewings slightly grey-tinged ; the 

 two outer lines grey. Face and palpi blackish ; vertex and shaft of antennae 

 white ; collar brownish ; thorax and abdomen ochreous speckled with fuscous ; 

 iiind-tibiae and tarsi of cj enormously thickened and flattened, containing an 

 expansile tuft of thick dark grey down. 



Expanse of wings : 27 mm. 



One ¥, seven SS, from Loeboe Kajah, AV. Sumatra, April— May 1897 

 (Ericsson). 



