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the ceutral belt dull lilac; secondaries semi-transparent, opaline white as usual, but the brownish 

 border much paler, of a i)ale brassy-golden tint; expanse of wings 34-37 millimeters. 



In the genus Vrodenui there is a considerable similarity of i)attern in most of the species, so 

 that the distinctness of P. evanescem is quite possible. 



Eemigiid^. 



Reniif/ia frugalis (No. .58). 

 Noctua frugalts. Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Ill, 2, p. 138. 



Chaldope lycopodia, Hiibner, Zutr. Exot. Schmett, p. 25, n. 449; tigs. 897, 898. 

 This is a wide-ranging si)ecies, common throughout Asia and Africa. 

 Allied to Mesocondyla, Led., and Ceratoelasis, Feld. 



BOTIDID^. 



Rinecera gen. nov. 

 Primaries triangular, broader in the male than the female, and with the costal . border 

 angularly expanded, thickened at the edge to basal third, where it is succeeded by a rather deep 

 impression, bounded in part by a well-defined ridge; costal v^ein short, extending to the angle 

 at extremity of thickened basal border ; cell open, short in the male, extending to about the basal 

 third; slightly longer in the female; subcostal vein five-branched; the first bi-anch emitted 

 before the end of the cell ; in the male near to base and much abbreviated ; second to fourth 

 branches beyond the cell from main stem; the second branch in the male emitted at some distance 

 beyond the cell; the fourth branch running to apex in continuation of main stem; fifth branch 

 emitted separately from anterior angle of cell and close to upper radial ; the two latter nervures 

 are elbowed and widely divergent in the male; discocellular veinlet obsolete; the lower radial 

 and the three median branches are emitted close together, so that the median vein becomes 

 quadriramose ; submediau nox'mal; secondaries cuneiform, with angles rounded off, narrower and 

 more elongated in male than female; costal margin in male about as long again as abdominal 

 margin ; frenum long, single, held bj' a broad upcurved patch of long scaled' near base of inner 

 border of primaries; costal vein obsolete; subcostal thickened toward base, emitting its two 

 branches from a long footstalk beyond the cell ; the latter short, closed by a feebly indicated 

 incurved discocellular veinlet; two radials present (probably to compensate for loss of costal 

 vein) ; upper radial omitted from anterior angle of cell, and lower as a fourth median branch from 

 posterior angle of the same; body moderately robust; eyes large and prominent; palpi extending 

 considerably in front of head, porrected, nearly straight, compressed, compactly scaled, terminal 

 joint very short; antenna long and wiry, extending to about second third of primaries; in male 

 very aberrant, the basal joint subcylindrical, slightly compressed, a little attenuated in front; 

 second joint more than twice as long as first, straight, slightly contorted at proximal end, 

 expanded and terminating in a tuft of bristles at distal end; inferior margin flattened, coarsely 

 serrated, and fringed with short bristles; third joint slightly longer than first, slightly curved, 

 cylindrical, expanding toward distal end, clothed with long scales; remaining joints normal, 

 tapering toward extremity; legs long and moderately robust, femora compressed, tibial spurs 

 well developed; abdomen of male wanting, of female extending slightly beyond secondaries, 

 tapering to anal extremitj'. 



Rinecera mirabilis sp. n. (Nos. 64 and 65). 

 Fnliginons-brown, paler in male than female; discoidal spots of primaries black, centered 

 with hyaline white, most distinctly in female; an angulated black baud across basal fourth; discal 



