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tinted with flesh colour in the centre, and clouded with 

 brown ; apical third of costal margin and centre of the 

 veins on the disc alternately black and white; a very 

 large V-shaped brown-bordered grey patch at external 

 angle, occupying half the internal and nearly half the ex- 

 ternal border; a whitish submarginal dash cut by the lower 

 radial nervure ; a marginal series of brown spots, bounded 

 internally by a series of hastate white spots from the apex 

 to the second median interspace ; fringe brown, spotted 

 with white; secondaries grey ish - brown with a broad 

 dusky outer border; fringe sordid white, spotted with 

 blackish; body brown, head reddish; tegula? with white 

 external borders; primaries below greyish-brown, with a 

 broad discal <-shaped belt of dark grey ; borders whitish ; 

 apical third of costa and outer margin spotted with black- 

 ish ; secondaries white ; costal area brown-speckled ; a 

 broad greyish-brown outer border not quite reaching the 

 costal or abdominal margins; body below sordid whitish, 

 legs greyish, tarsi black, banded with white above: ex- 

 panse 1 inch 10 lines. 



Ivio Jutahi, 5th February, 1875. 



Closteromorpha, Felder. 



121. Closteromorpha modesta, n. sp. 



Allied to C. reniplaga, same general form and colora-. 

 tion; wings above silky, laky-brown; primaries with the 

 apical area (bounded internally by two white liturte indi- 

 cating the reniform spot) abruptly darker ; reniform spot 

 and costal border from above it to outer border, washed 

 with shining plumbageous grey; a pyriform whitish-bor- 

 dered blackish spot immediately beyond the reniform spot 

 and occupying about a quarter of the apical area; four 

 transverse dusky lines, all excepting the second with a 

 pale border, the first straight and oblique crossing the 

 basal third of the cell, the second parallel to it but not 

 continued above the median vein, the third 7-shaped, 

 terminating at the second median branch, the fourth. very 

 irregular, submarginal, terminating close to the costa in 

 a small white spot; apical fourth of costal margin spotted 

 with testaceous ; body laky-brown ; wings below alto- 

 gether paler, shining greyish ; the primaries Avith blackish 

 discoidal area; pectus whitish: expanse 1 inch 5 lines. 



Parentins, 1st April, 1874. 



