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wing more uniformly darkened, with a better-defined discal 

 spot. On the underside the fore wing is more uniformly 

 darkened than in venata vennta and the postmedial hne on 

 hind wing is ratiier further removed from the termen (nearer 

 to discal spot), at least on its posterior half. 



Mt. Murud, November, without exact elevation — 1 female. 



76. DiOMEA ROTUXDATA Wlkr. 



Diomea rotundata Wlkr., Spec. Lep. Ins., xiii, p. 1110, 1857, Ceylon. 



Mt. Poi, 4500 feet, 1 male. 



This is not a certain identification, the subterminal line on 

 fore wing being exceptionally dentate ; but in other respects 

 it so closely resembles one specimen in Coll. Brit. Mus. from 

 Ceylon, and there .is so much individual variation in this 

 species, unless we have two' or three species mixed under 

 the name rotundata, that it has seemed better not to erect 

 ;i new species on the strength of a single specimen. 



77. Tamba cosmoloma sp. n. 



9 40 mm. 



Head, body, legb and wmgs predominantly light buff, the 

 tiiorax and wings finely irrorated with pink. Fore wing with 

 the costa narrowly snuff-brown (Ridgway, pi. xxix), with 

 slight brown irroration behind it; lines (except postmedial) 

 nearly obsolete ; faint traces of the subbasal and antemedial, 

 double, waved and excin-ved ; cell with two minute blackish 

 dots, one (orbicular) at nearly |, the other on proximal 

 edge ot a large, kidney-shaped renifoim, which is very 

 indistinctly indicated by a pale outline; postmedial line 

 almost lost on its anterior fou)tn, very indistinct, double, 

 somewhat ol)liciue irom IV to hind margin; an oblique 

 purplish shade, mixed with brick-red, from termen just behind 

 a{)ex to f)ostmedial line, along which it is continued almost 

 to liind margin, giving off" a proximal red lobe at its junction 

 with hne; area from this shade to termen tinged with violet 

 and red, with only weak traces of the subterminal line; 

 an arrow-shaped purple mark along R", its (broad) head 

 pointing towards termen ; small internenral dark lunules, 

 well removed from termen. Hind icing reproducing coloration 

 and pattern f)f fore winq-, but cell with only one black dot; 

 postmedial line moderately distinct throughout and (rather 



