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The prevalent coloi' is reddish brown, moderately dark. The vertex and inner 

 edges of the tegulae are very pale warm gray, which color extends backward on the 

 thorax between the patagia, and is continued as a pale dorsal line on the abdomen. 

 The under side of the palpi, the pectus, the thorax, and the abdomen are pale fawn- 

 color. The fore wings have a few minute dark basal points, a very fine, dark, out- 

 wardly curved subbasal line, a fine, dark, straight median line running obliquely 

 from the middle of the costa to about the middle of the inner margin. At the end 

 of the cell is a minute dark spot, surrounded by a few lighter scales. There is a trace 

 of a faint postmedian line, only visible near the costa, and terminating about vein 5. 

 Beyond this is a fine dark submarginal line running from the apex to the inner margin, 

 slightly curved at its upper end, and terminating upon the inner margin at a point 

 about one-fourth the length of this margin behind the inner angle of the wing. The 

 hind wings on the upper side are similar in color to the fore wings, but a little darker 

 in tone, except at the anal angle, where they become paler and are marked by three 

 incomplete dark bands running inwardly towards the middle of the wing, before 

 reaching which the}^ become obsolete. The two lower bands are close to each other, 

 but the one above them is separated by a wider interval than that which parts the 

 two nearest the outer margin. There is a fine dark submarginal line, near the anal 

 angle composed of very minute lunules, accentuated externally by lighter scales. 

 The fringes are concolorous, and not checkered with lighter color. On the under side 

 both wings are pale fawn, with the lower half of the cell and the inner margin of the 

 primaries darker, the scales long and closely appressed on these areas. There are a 

 few dark punctulations on the limbal area of both wings, and the dark incomplete 

 bands seen on the upper side of the secondaries reappear on the lower side, but are 

 fainter and shorter. Expanse, 50 mm. 



The type is a quite perfect specimen in the Carnegie INIuseuni taken 

 at Banza Manteka by A. L. Bain, the paratype is a much less perfect 

 specimen in the collection brought back by the Lang-Chapin Expedi- 

 tion, and belongs to The American Museum of Natural History. This 

 latter specimen is labelled "Medje, VII, 6, 1910." 



Aburina Moeschler 

 (583) 1. Aburina infirma (Holland) 



Naxia infirma Holland, 1894, Psyche, VH, p. 52, PI. in, fig. 5. 



A single specimen was caught at Avakubi, August 30, 1913. 



M}^ reference of tliis species to the genus Naxia was, at the time I 

 made it, quite provisional. Hampson sinks Naxia Guenee as a synonym 

 of Parallelia Hiiljner. The insect certainly does not fall into Parallelia, 

 though it accorded, at the tiine I studied it, with a number of species 

 which then (1892) were classified under Naxia in the British Museum. 

 Upon the whole, I am inclined to regard it as perhaps ])est referred to 

 Moeschler's genus Ahurino, in which Sir George F. Hampson tells me 

 he has placed it. 



