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the costal area white tinged with rufous ; hindwing white faintly irrorated with 

 brown, a faint curved brown postmedial line. ' 



Hab. Mexico, Tehuacan (Miiller), 1 <J type. Exp. 36 mill. 



4673a. Busseola Juscantis n. sp. 



?. Head and thorax fuscous black mixed with some whitish tinged with 

 rufous, the terminal half of patagia almost entirely whitish tinged with rufous ; 

 antennae fuscous brown ; abdomen white suffused with fuscous ; pectus, legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen white suffused with red-brown, the tarsi black- 

 brown ringed with white. Forewing ochreous white tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with fuscous black, the costa more thickly irrorated ; white points 

 in and beyond lower angle of cell with some black-brown scales round them ; a 

 rather diffused obhque black-brown subterminal Une from vein 6 to inner margin 

 with black-brown points before it on veins 5 to 1 ; a terminal series of minute 

 black lunules ; ciUa white with black-brown hne at middle and some black- 

 brown at tips. Hindwing white tinged with ochreous and the terminal area 

 faintly with brown ; a sUght brown terminal line ; the underside white, the 

 costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with pale red-browTi. 



Hah. Er. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 1 $ type. Exp. 30 mill. 



47006. Tridentifrons microsema n. sp. 



o. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish; antennae 

 wliitish tinged with red-brown ; abdomen white tinged with red-brown ; pectus, 

 legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white mixed with some red-brown. Fore- 

 wing pale red-brown, the costal area whitish tinged with red-brown, the sub- 

 mecUan fold rufous, a patch in and below end of cell and the terminal area 

 tinged with grey-brown, the latter narrowing to a point at apex ; antemedial Une 

 very inchstinct, red- brown, obhque, waved; a brown point in middle of cell; 

 reniform very small, with whitish annulus with two white points below and 

 brown centre, open above and below and with whitish streak before and 

 beyond it in cUscal fold ; postmedial line very indistinct, red-brown, obhque 

 to vein 6, incurved at discal fold, obhque and dentate below vein 4 ; an obhque 

 subterminal series of wedge-shaped chocolate-brown spots in the interspaces 

 between veins 7 and 3 ; a terminal series of black-brown points ; ciUa whitish 

 and red-brown. Hindwing white tinged with red-brown ; a brown terminal 

 hne ; ciha white mixed with red-brown. Under.side white tinged with rufous ; 

 both wings with sUght brown discoidal spot and curved postmedial Une. 

 Hab. Java, Sindanglaya, 1 ^ type. Exp. 36 mill. 



4726a. Rhyncholita diaperas n. sp. 



$. Head ochreous white tinged with rufous ; thorax ochreous white suffused 

 with rufous, the patagia with a few dark brown scales, the metathorax blackish 

 beliind ; abdomen whitish, tinged w ith rufous towards base and with brown 

 towards extremity and irrorated with Ijlackish scales ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen wlutish suffused with rufous, the forelegs dark brown, the 

 tarsi ringed with white. Forewing ochreous tinged in parts with rufous and 

 irrorated with dark brown ; a blacldsh subbasal striga from costa and spot below 



