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(which tapers obliquely above the median vein and does 

 not reach the costa), this band followed again by parallel 

 feiTuginous, whity-brown, slaty-grey and dark brown lines 

 and streaks, which are continued to outer border ; a whitish- 

 diffused ajjical dash ; a submarginal series of black dots ; 

 , fringe spotted with slaty-grey ; secondaries silky brown, 

 becoming almost black towards the apex ; fringe white, 

 varied with brown spots; body reddish-brown, with the 

 sides of the teguljB and base of abdomen grey ; primaries 

 below shining greyish-brown ; costal border testaceous 

 almost to apex, near which it becomes red and is crossed 

 by two yellow liturte, the first of wdiich is continued as an 

 indistinct paler oblique line across the disc ; a submarginal 

 series of blackish dots ; fringe whitish at base ; secondaries 

 sordid Avhite, crossed by four ill-defined dusky lines, the 

 fourth of which limits a dusky outer border ; costal area 

 minutely brown-speckled ; body below whitish : expanse 

 1 inch 2 lines. 



Kio Negro, 4th July, 1874. 



In the structure of its antennae and the general pattern 

 of the primaries this species approaches Ingura producta, 

 near to which, perhaps, it ought to be placed ; but I do 

 not think that Ingura ought to be retained among the 

 Noctuites. 



LepasTA, Moeschler. 

 (^Nystalea, Felder ex parte.) 



124. Lepasta conspicua, n. sp. 



Closely allied to N. grammodes 9, but smaller, con- 

 siderably paler, the secondaries and abdomen being greyish 

 whity-brow^n, the ij-like band of primaries broader, more 

 regular and whiter, wdth the intersecting line ill-defined ; 

 a comma-shaped marking between the two cuneiform 

 spots ; under surface silky Avhite : expanse 1 inch 3 lines. 



Eio Negro, 4th July, 1874. 



This species has a remarkable recumbent crest project- 

 ing backwards from the base of the antennae ; the pectina- 

 tions of the latter are short, even at the base, and are 

 composed of little hair pencils ; the single example taken 

 appears to me to be a male, from its possession of lateral 

 short compressed tufts at the base of the abdomen, as well 

 as the anal tuft. I therefore doubt the specific identity of 

 the sexes associated under the name of N. grammodes. 



