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line ; the marginal area is traversed by an irregular submarginal band sharply 

 defined externally but melting into the ground colour internally; the fringes are 

 dark fuscous checkered with white. The secondaries on the upperside are uniformly 

 jiale fuscous. On the underside the primaries and secondaries are pale fuscous ; 

 there is an indistinct subapical whitish line on the eosta of the primaries, a linear 

 transverse whitish line at the end of the cell in the secondaries, and following this 

 a well-defined curved transverse median dark line, defined externally by a paler line. 

 Expanse : 26 mm. 



277. P. (?) buruensis ^\i. nov. 



<?. The body, the legs, and the antennae are jiale wood brown ; the eyes darker 

 brown. The primaries on the upperside are wood brown, with an obscure darker 

 brown circular dot in the cell and a somewhat larger oval spot at the end of the 

 cell ringed by pale brown lighter than the ground colour of the wing. There is a 

 fine, irregular, submarginal light line, clouded inwardly with darker brown ; beyond 

 this light submarginal line the wing is very pale wood brown, several shades lighter 

 than the ground colour of the remainder of the wing. The secondaries on the 

 upperside are pale wood brown, lighter than the primaries, with a small dark spot 

 at the end of the cell, and traces of obscure curved transverse median and transverse 

 submarginal lines, (^n the underside the wings are pale grey, the primaries without 

 markings; the secondaries at the base on the cell and near the inner margin have 

 two tufts of coal black hairs extending a short distance in the direction of the outer 

 margin ; beyond the black tuft on the cell is a minute black spot at its end, beyond 

 this a well-defined curved median and curved submarginal band. 



Expanse : 25 — 27 mm. 



Described from two male specimens. 



This species is readily distinguished from all others by the little fascicles of jet 

 black hair near the base of the underside of the secondaries. 



Genus BLEPTINA Guent^e. 

 278. B. nigella (Swinhoe), Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 265 (1890). 



Genus HYDEILLODES Guen<?e. 

 279. H. abavalis (Walker), Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. XVI. p. 196. 



Genus NODARIA Guende. 



280. N. tacta sp. nov. 



(?. Front white ; head, thorax, and abdomen wood brown, both on the upper 

 side and underside ; legs concolorous. Primaries on the upperside reddish fuscous, 

 traversed by two very irregular fine dark brown lines running obliquely from the 

 costa outwardly to the median vein about the middle of the wing, and then returning 

 obliquely towards the middle of the inner margin, being sharply crenulated ; between 

 these two lines on the costa is a dark brown shade, limited before and behind by these 

 lines, and accentuated on either side by a pale light yellowish line ; beyond these 

 lines near the margin it is a very fine waved light submarginal line, clouded on the 

 inner side by dark brown. The secondaries on the upperside are pale fulvous, marked 

 by a straight transverse dark line running from the inner margin just above the anal 



