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710. Ercta gaudealis sp. nov. 



(J. Ci'eam-colour, serrations and underside dark sooty grey ; head dark sooty brown ; 

 thorax dark sooty brown variegated with pale steel blue ; abdomen above dark sooty 

 brown, sides and below huffish whity grey. Forewing sooty brown, darker in costal 

 area and outer ^ ; costa and basal -| strongly covered with pale steel bhie scales and 

 spots ; postmedian and marginal bands pale steel blue, the latter with a row of black 

 dots ; a spot near base, basal half of inner margin and a large irregular submedian 

 patch white, the latter edged outwardly with black and suffused inwardly with brown 

 scales. Hindwing, base dark sooty brown ; basal \ white, outer \ dark sooty brown ; 

 between the white and the outer dark area a sinuate pale steel blue band, a marginal 

 row of black dots inside pale steel blue spots. 



Expanse 22 mm. Length of forewing 9 '5 mm. 



3 S3 Base Camp, Jan. 1913 ; 2 oo Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912 ; 1 o Utakwa River, sea 

 level, Nov. 1912. 



711. Marasmia venilialis (Walk.) 



Asopia venilialis Walk., List Lcp. Ins. Brit. Mas., xvii. p. 373 (18.59) (Moreton Bay). 



4 o'^ 4 ?? Base Camp, Nov.— Dec. 1912 ; 1 o" Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912 ; 2 <i3 2 ?$ 

 Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Jan.— Feb. 1913. 



712. Marasmia carstensziana sp. nov. 



cJ. Antennae, head and thorax pale cinnamon yellowish wood-brown ; abdomen 

 similar, but slightly suffused with sooty black and narrowly ringed with white, tuft 

 and 2 spots on praeanal segment black. Forewing greyish buff, basal | of costa sooty 

 black, a cellular stigma, ante- and postmedian transverse lines grey-brown ; a clouded 

 sooty band beyond postmedian line, margin grey-brown with huffish central hair-line. 

 Hindwing similar. 9 paler. 



Expanse, S 18, ? 20 mm. Length of forewing, J 8, ? 9 mm. 



1 o- 3 ?? Snow Mts., 4000-6000 ft., Jan.— Feb. 1913. 



713. Rhimphalea heranialis (Walk.) 



Botijs heranialis Walker, List Lcp. Lns. Brit. Mus., xviii. p. 714 (18.59) (Sarawak). 



1 3 Utakwa River, 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



714. Syngamia ampliatalis (Led.) 



Platamonia ampliatalis Lederer, Wicn. Ent. Mon., vii. 18G3, p. 428. pi. IG, f. 6 (Amboina). 

 1 (J Base Camp, March 1913. 

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