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Hind wings whitish banded with dusky beyond the black discoidal 

 lunule, terminal line black ; fringes grey, ochreous at base, whitish 

 at tips. Under side whitish powdered with greyish brown on margins, 

 transversely clouded with blackish beyond the middle on fore wings ; 

 a black discoidal lunule and dusky line beyond on hind wings. 

 Expanse, 37 millim. 



Collection number, 1835. 



A male specimen and two females from Arizan, March, 1908. 



Elusa rufescens, sp. n. 



,?. AntennjB contorted before middle, bipectinated beyond. 

 Fore wings brown tinged with rufous especially on the medial area ; 

 antemedial and postmedial lines black, the first excurved below 

 median nervure and angled before the dorsum, the latter wavy; reni- 

 form stigma outlined in ochreous representing the figure 8, preceded 

 by an ochreous dot ; subterminal line pale, a few black scales along 

 its inner edge, almost straight from costa before apex to the dorsum; 

 terminal line black, interrupted ; fringes brown. Hind wings fuscous 

 brown, terminal line pale ; fringes pale, darker at base._ Under side 

 of fore wings pale brown on basal two thirds, tinged with rufous on 

 costal area, suffused with fuscous on terminal third ; postmedial line 

 blackish, diffuse about middle : of hind wings pale brown, tinged 

 with fuscous ; discoidal lunule, and curved series of marks on the 

 veins beyond, blackish. 



2 . Similar but fore wings clouded with blackish on the disc and 

 the markings are indistinct ; the rufous tint is confined to a streak 

 along the dorsal area. 



Expanse, 21 millim. <? ; 23 millim. ? . 



Collection number, 545. 



One male specimen and two females from Kanshirei. The 

 male taken August 18th, 1905, and the females, August 29th, 

 1907, and March 5th, 1909. 



Athetis confusa, sp. n. 



? . Fore wings brownish white, dusted with brown ; antemedial 

 line brown, almost straight ; medial shade brown, indented about 

 middle ; a dark dot in the cell and a rather larger and darker dot at 

 outer end of the cell ; postmedial line brown, wavy, excurved round 

 cell, incurved below cell, very indistinct ; subterminal line brown, 

 undulated, indistinct ; line on termen pale brown, dotted with black, 

 fringes of the ground colour. Hind wings brownish white, 

 suffused with fuscous, discoidal dot blackish, terminal line as onthe 

 fore wings. Under side whitish brown, discoidal dot on hind wings 

 black ; all the wings have a blackish postmedial line, that on the 

 fore wings only distinct towards the costa. 



Expanse, 27 millim. 



Collection number, 966. 



A female specimen from Kanshirei, July 23rd, 1906. 



BNTOM. — JUNE, 1915. N 



