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brown lunular spot at end of the cell ; base of wing with an indistinct pale short 

 transverse costal line : hiudwing dusky brown, with a slender white discal band, 

 and an anal marginal grey-speckled band ; cilia whitish at the apex. Body greyish- 

 brown, tarsi with pale bands. 

 Expanse If to 1|- inch. 



DYSGONIA FULVOT^NIA (Plate 171, Fig. 1). 

 Ophiusa fulvotcenia, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 272 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1431. 

 Forewing dark purplish violet-brown or olivescent-brown, with a broad medial 

 transverse slightly outwardly-curved more or less pale purplish flesh-coloured band, 

 which is slightly speckled with brown scales ; a similar coloured outer marginal band 

 with inwardly curved border, which is traversed hindward by a slight brown sinuous 

 streak ; the margins of the bands are sharply defined by a pale-bordered black line ; 

 the discal band being crossed by a pale-bordered curved subapical line, the colour 

 above which is somewhat paler ; a blackish speckled lunular spot on the pale band 

 at end of the cell : hiudwing brownish-black, with a broad ochreous-yellow transverse 

 medial band, and a slight ochreous-brown marginal fascia, the latter being marked 

 by a black subanal spot surmounted by an ochreous-white streak. Body, head, palpi, 

 and legs violet-brown ; tarsi with pale bands. 

 Expanse 2^ to 2f inches. 



DYSGONIA CRAMERI (Plate 171, Fig. 2). 

 Phalmna Noctua Acliatina, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 171, pi. 288, f. a (1782"), nee Sulzer. 

 Ophiusa Achatina, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 272 (1852); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiv. p. 1430. 



Male and female : forewing very dark olivescent-brown, with a broad outwardly 

 obhque slightly contracted medial purpurescent-white band, which is thickly speckled 

 with brown scales ; outer marginal border of the wing broad, pale purpurescent- 

 brown, with its inner discal edge undulated, the veins with lilacine streaks ; the 

 discal brown band cut by a whitish oblique subapical line : hindwing dusky brown, 

 with a broad transverse medial whitish band, an outer marginal cinereous-brown 

 fascia, including the cilia, and a subanal black spot which is surmounted by a white 

 streak. Body, palpi, and legs dark brown. 



Expanse 2 to 2\ inches. 



DYSGONIA DISCALIS (Plate 171, Fio. 8). 



Forewino- with the basal area dark brown ; a broad medial transverse lilacine- 



white band, which is slightly speckled with brown scales ; discal band broad, defined 



by a pale-bordered brown line, of the same shape as in B. Crameri, its entire area 



being of a pale purplish-lilac colour; the apical patch above dark brown; outer 



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