26 Mr. Brn.Kn's (ksn-iptions of nen- species of 



50. ZeJdiiieia ii/u'tans, n. .sp. 



$ Aspect of Notodonta ziczac ; primaries with a hasal snow- 

 white h;niile from the costa to the median vein, followed by two 

 Ijlack dashes upon a diffused brown ground ; base of internal 

 border pale buff ; subbasal area greyish crossed by a few red- 

 brown longitudinal dashes, and bounded by a deeply dentated 

 zigzag ferruginous and black line, which forms the inner limit of 

 a broad central snow-white belt, speckled witli groy and btiff ; 

 costal margin ferruginous; lietween the central belt and the disc 

 is an arched testaceous and white stripe with black margins, its 

 inferior extremity dentate-sinuate ; the inner liorder of the disc 

 is gi-evish, the centre sienna-red with dark oblique red-brown 

 dashes between the nervures, and the outer border irregularly 

 greyish and bounded within hy a partly white deeply dentate- 

 sinuate stripe ; there is also a slender white marginal line, spotted 

 with ochreous and edged externally by a narrow red-brown line ; 

 fringe white, traversed by two fairly Avell-defined red-brown 

 lines ; secondaries dull ferruginous shading into cream colour at 

 the base ; thorax Avhite ; the head, antenna; and front of collar 

 and metathorax red brown ; abdomen red-brown, i^aler at the 

 side ; wings below sericeous white, with red-brown costal 

 margins; primaries with a diffused subapical costal patch of 

 the same colour; body below red-brown, the abdomen very pale, 

 the tibiffi of the anterior and middle pairs of legs white, 

 hlxpanse of wings 44 mm. 



COSSIDiE. 



51. Cossiis fiilvospar.'iiis, n. sp. 



Primaries greenish-white, varying in some examples to emerald - 

 green, striated with blackish, with a greyish patch below tlie cell, 

 enclosing a whitish spot just above the submedian veiu ; central 

 three-fifths of internal border cupreous-brown ; the external 

 two-thirds spotted witn reddish-orange, some of the spots form- 

 ing a discal series and otliers a marginal series ; secondaries dark 

 smoky-brown, with In'onze reflections ; apical area more or less 

 flecked with white or grey ; costal area white ; fringe white, 

 spotted with black ; head white ; collar red-broAvn or purplish, 

 sometimes with wliite centre ; thorax greenish-white or brown, 

 sometimes ferruginous in front ; the togukv greenish-white or 

 sericeous emerald-green ; abdomen brown, more or less varied 

 witli white and orange ; antenna' white with brown jiectinations 

 or wholly limwn ; Avings below smoky greyish-bi-uwn, striated 



