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dark Avavy discal line ; apex dark : expanse of wings 

 1 inch 8 lines. 



Kio Jutahi, 5tli February, 1875. 



Seems allied to O. livescens of Guenee. 



108. Ortliogramma Inrida, n. sp. 



Dull laky-brown ; the wings crossed, from near apex of 

 primaries to near abdominal margin of secondaries, by a 

 straight dark-chocolate line ; primaries crossed transversely 

 near the base by a falciform dark-brown line ; orbicular 

 spot punctiform, white with brown edge ; reniform repre- 

 sented by two slender opposed bisinuate brown lines ; 

 costal edge orange ; fi-inge ochraceous; all the wings with 

 an arched discal series of elongated ferruginous dots ; 

 secondaries with stramineous costal border ; fringe dull 

 clay-coloured ; palpi and tibiae of posterior legs chocolate- 

 brow^n ; tarsi blackish ; wings below pale clay-coloured, 

 suffused in the centre, and on external area of secondaries, 

 with pale smoky-brown ; a centi-al dusky line, from costa 

 of primaries to abdominal margin of secondaries ; disco- 

 cellulars blackish ; primaries with a blackish dot in the 

 cell ; inner border pale and sericeous ; body below whitish : 

 expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines. 



Amazons. 



Exact locality and date obliterated. 



109. Ortliogramma ignilinea. 



Thermesia iynllinea, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. 

 p. 1046 (1865). 

 Ayrao, Eio Negro, 3rd July, 1874. 



Dr. Trail only obtained one example of this rare species ; 

 the type is a broken specimen. 



M. Guenee regards his genera Sam/s and Thiona as 

 nearly allied to Orthogrammu; in their slender Geometrid- 

 like bodies and antennie they much more nearly approach 

 Thermesia. 



Thekmesia, Huhner. 



Before proceeding to the enumeration of Dr. Trail's 

 specimens, it is most important to correct the numerous 

 errors, chiefly generic, which Mr. Walker has fallen into 

 in this group of species. 



Thermesia sigillata is a Liviana, T. prospera a O//;- 

 nodes, T. 7iwnilinris (^= Phurt/s areiwsa) a Capnodes, 



