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base parallel to median vein as far as J, narrowed and in some 

 specimens fuscous at base, a deep chocolate or blackish line from 

 above second bar at base runs parallel to costa and near median 

 vein, and has developed upon it two gold bars, extending with a 

 uniting black dot along middle third of wing, a more or less 

 interrupted zig-zag black and chocolate-fuscous line from | costa 

 to 5 inner margin, a zig-zag diagonal black line edged with light 

 chocolate from apex of hindmargin, has developed on it more or 

 less completely from point of apex an undulating gold line or 

 linear bar towards middle third of wing, thence the line forks 

 into two branches from another gold bar, the posterior branch 

 runs to near anal angle of inner margin, where it is rounded to 

 run parallel and near to inner margin along its whole distance ; 

 the anterior branch runs to § inner margin where it crosses the 

 posterior branch ; three or four other dark fuscous bands run 

 through entire length of wing parallel to inner margin, but are 

 interrupted by transverse lines and give the appearance of a 

 number of cones pointing to base, these bands are at points 

 diffused with black and- are bordered by creamy-chocolate lines 

 and marbled by shadings of darker chocolate ; golden bars lined 

 with black on inner border : cilia chocolate with lighter median 

 band and patches of ochreous-fuscous. Hindwings reddish- 

 ochreous, with an undulating dentate fuscous line from costa 

 at f to anal angle of inner margin ; Ijeyond this is a broad 

 hindmarginal fuscous or fuscous-red border, attenuated before 

 anal angle ; cilia ochreous-fuscous, in some specimens irrorated 

 with darker fuscous. 

 Brisbance ; rare. 



Family PLUSIAD^. 



HoLOCRYPTis, Meyr., MS., gen.nov. 



Face loosely scaled. Eyes naked. Ocelli absent. Tongue 

 developed. Antennae in male ciliated. Labial palpi moderate, 

 subascending, very slender, somewhat loosely scaled, terminal 

 joint moderate. Thorax smooth. Abdomen not crested (?). 

 Legs smooth, slender, without spines. Forewings with veins 7 



