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PANACRA. 



Here I ouly have to describe ten new species, and to reniark that I have seven 

 P. Vupmiin Walk, from Mackay, Qneensland, almost black. 



Panacra natalensis kji. nov. 

 (PI, v., fig. 13.) 



Foi-nvhigs : basal third blackish, variegated with grey, with a large creamy 

 buff patch, brownish olive behind, and terminated by a blackish brown s])ot at the 

 costa. Fonr obliqne transverse lines extend from near the apex to the base of the 

 inner margin. They are black and cnrved near the apex, and the spaces between 

 the two exterior ones pale bnff, the rest of the wing ontside these lines blackish, 

 with a large irregular patch of pinkish bnff. 



Hindivinqs blackish brown, with some creamy Imft' markings, the front margin 

 whitish, and two indistinct snbmarginal lines. 



Underside creamy buff, variegated with pale tawny and grey ; foreicinqs 

 crossed by five lines, the centre one of which is darkest ; hindwinqs crossed bv four 

 lines parallel to the outer margin. 



Bodq brown, variegated with buff, and with two dorsal longituiliaal lines on 

 the abdomen and one on each side of it. 



Expanse, Ti) inches = 4s-.") millini. 



Hab. Natal. 



Panacra rosea sj). nov. 

 I Pi. VI., fig. 14.) 



Forewings j)ale rose pink, with a broad black band extending obliquely from 

 near the aj>ex of the costa to the base of the inner margin, with three fine hairlike 

 lines running the whole of its length on tlie outside edge ; moreover, the stigma in 

 the coll is almost joined to the base of the wing by a fine black line. 



Htndwings : basal half greyish brown ; apical half rose pink, with jnnkish red 

 snbmarginal band. 



Underside: foreivings, basal half ])ale greyish brown, faintly marked with 

 round darker freckles ; apical half reddish or vinaceous butf, heavily freckled with 

 linear black dots. 



Hiiidwings vinaceous buti', closely frcckleil with black dots. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen, above rosy pink, with two darker dorsal marks ; 

 below vinaceons brown. 



Expanse, 2-7 inches = (i,s-9 millini. 



Hab. Lifu, Loyalty Islands. 



Panacra lifiiensis sp. nov. 



Male. — Forewings pale silvery grey, with a black stigma in cell. From the 

 apex to the centre of the inner margin extends obliipiely a transverse line of brown, 

 bordered on the inner side by three hairlike and very flue lines of dark grey on 

 buffy yellow ground. At the inner angle is a black jjatch of extremely variable 

 extent, as shown by nearly thirty-live specimens I possess. 



Hindwings deep brownish grey, with a pale baud extending up into tlic wing 

 from the anal angle to the apex. 



