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Genus EPISPARIS Walker. 



253. B. varialis (Walker), Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. XVI. p. 7. 



Two examples. 



Genus OXYODES Guenee. 



254. scrobiculata (Fabricius), Spec. Ins. II. p. 212. 



Four specimens. 



Genus OMMATOPHORA Guenee. 



255. 0. luminosa (Cramer), I.e. III. t. 274. f. D. 



Four specimens. 



Genus OPHIDERES Boisduval. 



256. 0. Mlonica (Linnaeus), Syst. Nat. ed. XII. p. 812. 



Apparently common. 



257. 0. jordani sp. nov. 



(J. Head, collar, and thorax dark brown ; abdomen orange, shaded with brown on 

 the upperside just behind the thorax. There are a few brown hairs at the tip of the 

 abdomen ; legs brown, shading at the extremities of the tibiae into orange ; tarsi dark 

 brown, ringed with white. The primaries on the upperside are dark purplish brown, 

 profusely marked with minute dark brown or blackish points and strigae, uniformly 

 distributed over the entire surface ; there are a few greenish scales below the apex ; 

 margins crenulate. The posterior wings on the ujjperside are orange, covered with 

 browu hairs at the base ; the outer third as far as vein 2 is marked by a black 

 marginal border ; behind this, above the anal angle, is a large sublunate black spot. 

 On the underside the species closely resembles 0. fullonica. 



Expanse : 80 — 85 mm. 



Described fiom two males. 



This species is very easily distinguished from all other species of the genus 

 known to me by the almost absolutely uniform colour of the primaries, which appear, 

 unless closely inspected, to be of uniform dark brown, almost black, the minute points 

 and dots being so closely crowded together as to present the appearance of an almost 

 unbroken surface of dark brown. 



Genus ARSACIA M'alker. 



258. A. saturatalis Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. XXXIV. p. 1260. 

 One specimen. 



Genus PLUSIA Ochsenheimer. 



259. P. eriosoma Doubleday, Dieffenbach's New Zealand, II. p. 285. 

 One example. 



Genus CALESIA Guenee. 

 260. C. dasyptera (KoUar), Hiigel's Kaachmir. IV. p. 476 

 Three males and tvio females. 



