Heterocerous Lepidoptera from Madagascar. 17 



nud white ; internal border whitish ; fringe snow-white ; second- 

 aries wliite, with a few scattered dark brown scales, a brown 

 spot at the end of the cell and another at apex ; Ijody below 

 white, legs brown above. Expanse of wings 25 mm. 

 Aukafana. 



34. Dasi/chira pallida, u. sp. 



9 Primaries above white, densely irrorated with dark brown 

 so as to give them a greyish aspect ; the Ixnsal third crossed Ijy 

 two ill-detined irregularly nndulated blackish lines ; a third line, 

 much as in D. pudibunda, beyond the cell ; discocellulars also 

 blackish ; secondaries grey; thorax white, densely irrorated with 

 l)rown, abdomen greyish white ; auteunre red-brown ; primaiies 

 below pale smoky-brown with whitish internal area ; secondai'ies 

 white ii'roratcd with smoky-brown ; body be]o>\' sordid white; 

 legs brownish; the tarsi dark brown flecked here and there with 

 white. Expanse of wings 44 mm. 



Ankafana. 



Unfortunately the tj'pe is a little rul)bed ; in general colora- 

 tion it is not unlike D. punctatella of Mt)tschoiilsky. 



35. Purorgyla phaslana, n. sp. 



$ Basal two-fifihs of primaries brown, the lower third of this 

 area being extremely dark, almost black, the outer edge al.so 

 dark brown, oblique and biangulated in the middle ; immediately 

 following this is a broad belt with irregularly undulated blackish 

 outer edge, the upper two-thirds twice as broad as the lower and 

 of a dull steel-blue colour sprinkled with greenish scales, the 

 lower third whitish with pale greenish scales in the centre ; 

 external area whity-brown mottled ^vith dark brown, Avhich 

 almost covers the central third ; secondaries pale greyish-brown ; 

 body blackish-brown; the head a little paler; antenme Avhitish 

 with dark brown pectinations; wings below sordid whitish, with 

 dusky discocellular spots and a regular discal scries of sul)- 

 confluent small spots; liody blackish in front whity-brown 

 behind. Expanse of wings 33 mm. 

 Ankafana. 



3G. Faroryyia iitaligna, u. sp. 



$ Allied to the preceding sj)ecies, although with a very dif- 

 ferent aspect; basal area whity-brown, with the internal third 

 black; a brtiad almost central dark brown irregular belt from 



