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discoidal area ; secondaries with a blackisli discocellular dot ; a 

 feebly indicated dusky discal belt. Expanse o£ Avings 1 inch 4 

 lines. 



Two specimens, one in good condition, the other slightly 

 broken; it resembles " Mamestra maori" of Pelder in pattern. 



6. Leucania extranea, var.? (No. 31)). 



Leiican/a extranea, Guenee, Noct. i, p. 77, u. 10-4 (1852). 



One singularly red example, with the basal half of the second- 

 aries unusually transparent ; otherwise differing in no respect 

 from Indian examples referred to this species. 



7. Leucania unica (No. 5). 

 Leucania unica, Walker, Lep. Het. ix, p. 112 (1856). 

 Two nearly perfect specimens. 



XYLOPHASIIDtE. 



8. Xylophasia stipata (No. 61). 

 Xijlina stijiata. Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii, p. 753 (1865). 

 A fragment of this well-marked species arrived. 



9. Xylophasia morosa, n, sp. (No. 26). 



Allied to X. lignana, and referable to the X. vurea group, 

 smoky-brown, primaries with the internal area and disc paler; 

 ordinary spots greyish with black-edged white borders, the 

 reniform extending over the base of the second median inter- 

 space and streakefl with blackish, a line of which colour runs 

 backwards from it along the median vein; a black -edged Avhitc 

 spot close to the base of the interno-median area and three at 

 equal distances on the costal margin ; three white costal dots 

 beyond the cell ; ordinary lines obsolete ; a discal series of black 

 and white dots on the veins followed by a series of externally 

 yellowish-edged ferruginous lunules between the veins ; two 

 dusky, somewhat triangular, patches on outer l)order, with black 

 spots upon them at the extremities of the veins; fringe black 

 spotted and traversed by a central black line; secondaries shining 



