Lepidoptera lloterocera //v//^ A^eic ZcaUind. 545 



Two specimens have come in a somewhat shattered condition 

 and the collector's No. has been lost; bnt the species is easily 

 recognizal)le from its peculiar coloration; the thorax and p-im- 

 aries being bluish-grey with whitish markings, and the second- 

 aries pale sandy-yellowish with ill-defined greyish border and 

 whitish fringe ; the abdomen has the general tint of the second- 

 aries, and the entire under surface is of a pale sandy- yellow 

 colour with the upper discocellular veinlet of the j)rimaries black 

 and the anterior legs ashy-grey above. 



lo. Spit'hitis Inconstdns, u. sp. (No. 23). 



Prima.ries above greenish-grey, indistinctly speckled w:tli 

 black; the ordinary lines ill-defined, formed by series of pile 

 hastate or lunate markings edged internally with black, and 

 connected here and there ; the innermost line replaced by three 

 oblique independent zigzag lines, the outermost of which is 

 interrupted by the "orbicular" .spot, the latter being bounded 

 internally by the central of the three lines ; the discoidal spots 

 large, whitish, separated from one another and from the post- 

 median line by black-edged dusky intervening spots; a marginal 

 series of black dots; fringe sordid white, traversed by two slightly 

 undulated greyish-brown lines; secondaries shining fuliginous 

 brown with faint piuky refiections and diffused dusky border; 

 fringe sordid white with very indistinct grey intersecting line; 

 thorax grey, abdomen greyish-bi'own ; under surface greyish- 

 white, speckled with grey scales towards the costal margins and 

 apices of the wings; the latter are also sericeous with blackish 

 discocellular >'-shaped markings and indistinct traces of two 

 nearly parallel greyish discal lines ; primaries with the discoidal 

 area slightly dusky; tarsi brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 

 5 lines. 



Vdr. Primaries above pale smoky-grey, with scai'cely a trace 

 of the dusky intervening spo^-s between the discoidal sj)ots and 

 postmedian line, otherwise similar to the type. 



Excepting in the loss of their antennae the.'-e specimens have 

 sustained no injury. 



14. Chevfotli' iiicanftpiciKi, n. sp. (No. 31). 



Primaries above greyish-brown speckled with grey; the or- 

 dinary linos blackish, l)Ut ill-defined, with the exception ol; the 

 submarginal one Avhich is black, internally difiiused, dentated in 



