128 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



spot, sinuous postmedial line and subterminal shade ; a terminal series of black 

 striae; the underside irrorated with dark brown except on inner area, the 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line more distinct. 



Hab. Cyprus (Bucknill), 1 <j type. Exp. 34 mill. 



2496rt. Eumichtis canariensis u. sp. 

 ?. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with grej-white and some pale 

 rufous, the frons with lateral black bars, the tegulae with black line at middle, 

 the patagia with pale hne near upper edge ; antennae black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen dark brown mixed with whitish and with some rufous at sides 

 towards extremity, the crests black ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen 

 rufous mixed with some grey ; legs dark brown mixed with whitish, the tarsi 

 black-brown ringed with whitish. Forewing grey-white tinged in parts with 

 brown and irrorated with black-brown, the medial area suffused with dark 

 brown except towards costa and inner margin, the veins streaked with blackisli ; 

 a sinuous black streak below base of submecban fold ; subbasal line double, 

 blackish filled in with whitish, angled outwards below costa and ending at 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line double, black filled in with whitish, shghtlv 

 waved, obUque to below submedian fold, then inwardly oblique ; claviform 

 defined by black, a black streak from it to the postmedial line with some rufous 

 above it ; orbicular and reniform large, grey-wliite defined by black and with 

 some brown in centres, the former rather obUque elliptical, the latter with curved 

 blackish striga in centre, a black point above it on costa ; postmedial line black 

 defined on outer side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and 

 produced to wliite points at the veins, obUque below- vein 5 ; a grey- white patch 

 beyond it in submedian interspace and some white points on costa ; subteiminal 

 line white defined on inner side by rufous and by small dentate black marks in 

 the interspaces, slightly waved, angled outwards at veins 4, 3, then incurved ; 

 a terminal series of sUght black lunules and fine wliite line at base of cilia. 

 Hindwing reddish brown, the veins darker ; a faint dark discoidal spot ; cilia 

 white tinged with rufous and with brown fine through them ; the hair on inner 

 margin whitish ; the unilerside white irrorated with red-bro«ii, a black cbscoidal 

 spot and red-brown postmedial line, excurved to vein 3, then incurved. 

 Hab. Canary Is., Ouimar (Walsingham), 1 $ type. Exp. 46 mill. 



25S06. Xylinissa ttrigcsa n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with black-ljrown, the tegulae 

 whitish with black-brown and rufous band near tips ; antennae black with some 

 white at base ; abdomen grey suffused with dark brown and with some whitish 

 at sides at base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen grey-white mixed 

 with black-brown. Forewing purplish grey suffused in parts with brown and 

 thickly striated with black-brown : an indistinct double black-brown ante- 

 medial line defined on inner side by whitish at costa ; orbicular and reniform 

 purpUsh grey defined by black and w ith their centres defined bj' dark brown, the 

 former round ; an indistinct double slightly waved blackish postmedial line, 

 excurved to vein 4, then obhque ; an interrupted dark redtlish-brown sub- 

 terminal shade, excurved at middle and incurved towards inner margin ; a 

 terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia w hite mixed with dark brown and 



