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than in L. cuculUna, fringe white, spotted with grey ; a wavy 

 white discal Une ; anal markings pure black and white ; head 

 black in front, snow-wliite behind ; autennoj red-brown, the 

 pectinations fringed with white pencils ; thorax rufous, abdomen 

 pale tetsaceous ; primaries below grey, secondaries cream-col- 

 oured ; fringes white with dark -grey spots; costa of primaries 

 cream-coloured spotted with black, anal angle of secondaries 

 grey ; other markings very indistinct ; pectus blackish in front, 

 otherwise white, legs with Avhite-banded l)lack tarsi ; anterior 

 legs black, white at all the joints, other legs smoky grey-brown ; 

 venter silvery whitish. Expanse of wings 43 mm. 

 "Wada toge, 1st August, 1881 (G. Lewis). 



The antenna3 are short and pectinated in the male, not long 

 and filiform as represented by M. Oberthlir ; the inattention of 

 the artist to these important details in M. Oberthlir's plates 

 renders the identification of his genera very difficult; if his 

 Pulodontis really has filiform antenna3 in the male the genus 

 may stand, whereas in my opinion this sole generic character 

 distinguishing it from Sputalia is due to the artist ; we possess 

 very similar species belonging to the latter genus. 



25. Piosania macrodonta, n. sp. 



$ Allied to R. strigosa of Java, but larger and more nearly 

 of the form of Spatalla ; pi-imaries pearl-grey irrorated with 

 cupreous red which gives them a fleshy tint; costal area whitish 

 in front, brownish behind, and emitting a pointed brassy -yellow 

 sub-apical streak to outer margin; the whitish portion is also 

 interrupted at the end of the cell by a squamose rufous spot, 

 and does not extend to apex ; basi-internal and median areas 

 golden-yellow, densely irrorated with blood-red, and interrupted 

 by central and terminal patches of this colour ; the large 

 quadrate internal prominence reddish ; a discal abbreviated red- 

 dish streak or band divided in the centre by the sub-apical 

 longitudinal streak; a svibmarginal series of reddish lunules 

 forming the inner margins of cupreous rounded spots ; fringe 

 of reddish mingled with white scales; secondaries pale greyish- 

 brown ; head and thorax dark red-brown, collar grey, abdomen 

 grey-brown ; under-surface of primaries greyish-brown, with 

 coloured borders; secondaries cream-coloured, with an indis- 

 tinct darker arched band beyond the middle ; body below 

 cream-coloured, the upper-surface of the legs and the palpi 

 cupreous red. Expanse of wings 43 mm. 



