collected in (liili. 36B 



34. Digonis imnctifera, n. s. 



Primaries above dark ferrnginous-brown, sericeous ; 

 costal margin speckled with whitish atoms ; an irregularly 

 zigzag blackish line across the basal third ; a black dot 

 at the end of the cell, and a white-dotted bisinuated 

 grey-edged black line beyond the middle ; fringe pale 

 brown, with a central stripe and the tips, dark brown ; 

 secondaries shining pale grey ; fringe pale brown, with 

 darker tips, and central stripes ; male with a pale 

 bordered dusky macular discal stripe ; thorax dark 

 brown, abdomen whity-brown or greyish ; wings below 

 shining silvery grey, tinted with bronze-brown towards 

 the margins ; costal border of primaries and entire 

 surface of secondaries speckled with black; an angulated 

 discal line, spotted with black upon the nervures ; veins 

 between this line and the outer margin whitish in certain 

 lights ; a minute black disco-cellular dot on the pri- 

 maries, and a conspicuous spot on the secondaries ; 

 primaries of female with a double blackish costal spot 

 near the apex, and the apex itself white; body brownish. 

 Expanse of wings, <^ 30 mm. ; ? 26 mm. 



Var. maculosa. 



? . Primaries whity-brown, mottled all over with 

 white and black-brown ; a ^-shaped blackish line across 

 the basal third, a small black dot at the end of the cell, 

 and a bisinuated white stripe beyond the middle ; se- 

 condaries silvery ; thorax brown, abdomen greyish brown ; 

 under surface of wings paler and more silvery than in 

 the typical form. Expanse of wings, 29 mm. 



The following seem also to be varieties, though differing 

 from the typical form and from the other species of the 

 genus in the shape of their primaries, the apex being 

 more prominent and the angle of the outer margin less 

 so ; these differences are, however, less strongly marked 

 in the females than in the males. 



Var. acmiiinata. 



(? , ? . Primaries above greyish brown, a dark brown 

 tapering band bounding the inner edge of the discal line, 

 the male with the external area more silvery, the female 

 with the costal border and veins yellowish ; markings as 

 in the typical form ; secondaries of both sexes as in the 



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