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smoothly scaled; tongue present; hind tibiae with two pairs of unequal spurs. 

 Scaling close and thick ; discal mark of both wings semitransparent. 



jVeuration : cell half the length of wing ; first median at five-sixths, second 

 and third together from end of cell ; radials as usual ; last four subcostals on common 

 stem, first free. Hindwings, costal approximated to subcostal shortly some way from 

 base; subcostals and last two medians from the ends of cell. 



Type : MesaMer alhidisadd, VVarr. 



Mesaster albidiscata sj). nov. 



Fcrewings: dull chestuut-brown, with ilaiker markings; first line farther from 

 the base than usual, dark brown, forming three or four short curves externally ; second 

 line strongly angulated towards the apex, from the angulation running obli(iuely 

 and somewhat irregularly waved parallel to hindmargin, preceded e.xcept in the 

 angulation by a darker brown shade, and followed by a slightly lighter one ; its 

 costal arm is followed by an irregularly lunate whitish dark-chequered costal spot, 

 which does not quite reach the apex ; a brownish cloud near the anal angle ; discal 

 spot white, semitransparent. 



Hindwings: with a wavy dark central line, edged, as in forewings, inwardly by 

 a dark shade and externally by a paler one ; discal mark as in forewings. In a 

 second specimen the ground-colour is paler, tawny wood-colour, with the markings 

 showing plainer, and covered with transverse darker striae, which are all but hidden 

 by the darker ground-colour in the other specimen. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen rather paler brown than the wings; segmental 

 divisions of the abdomen darker. Underside much gayer; basal two-thirds of 

 forewings a mixture of purplish grey and rich fulvous ; marginal third lustrous 

 purple with tawny blotches; apical spot pure cream-colour; hindwings purplish grey, 

 with a sinuous submarginal curved line, edged inwardly witli bright fulvous, and 

 followed by fulvous blotches along the margin; palpi and ppctus bright fulvous. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



Two 6 (? from Padang. 



Miantochora gen. nov. 



Forewhifjs : with costa straight, becoming faintly convex before apex, which is 

 blunt; hindmargin witli a blunt elbow at the end of the third median, above 

 which it is .slightly concave, and very oblique below it. 



Hindwings : kite-shaped, with the hindmargin straight on either side of a well- 

 marked angle in the middle. 



Antennae of c? with very long ciliated pectinations to five-sixths of their length, 

 the basal joint swollen; forehead hairy; eyes large; palpi stout, blunt, porrect ; 

 hind tibiae with four spurs, slightly dilated ; fore tibiae thickened with hairs. 

 Neuration normal, forewings without fovea. 



Type : Midntochora inacquilinea Warr. 



Miantochora inaequilinea sp. nov. 



Forewings: pinkish oclircous, the liasai three-fourths more or less thickly 

 sufl'used with ferruginous, and speckled with blackish atoms; basal line from about 

 one-third of costa to one-third of inner margin, jjreceded by pale scales and followed 

 by a second dark curved interrupted line, wluch is most distinct on costa and in 



