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white, tibiffi (excepting of the posterior pair of legs) crossed above by 

 slender curved black lines, tarsi above black. Expanse of wings, 

 42 mm. 



Eockhampton. 



This is the most distinctly marked species in the 

 genus, in colour and marking not at all unlike Walker's 

 genus Calathusa, though different in structure. 



OPHIUSID^. 

 PsEUDOPHiA, Guenee. 

 53. Pseudophia nehidigera, n. s. 

 General coloration and size of P. illunaris of Europe, the 

 prevailing tint on the upper surface being pale greyish with a 

 creamy whitish subtint ; costal border of primaries faintly shot 

 with lilac ; all the markings ill-defined, darkest on costa ; ordinary 

 hnes diffused internally, bounded externally by a creamy whitish 

 stripe, the inner line at basal fourth, obliiiue, regular ; outer hne 

 just beyond external fourth, slightly sinuous, undulated, ohvaceous ; 

 traces of a submarginal undulated line, olivaceous in the middle ; 

 ordinary spots obsolete ; traces of a very irregular whitish-edged 

 dusky hne across the external third ; fringe white, traversed by 

 two broad greyish stripes ; secondaries whitish, sordid towards the 

 base ; a curved grey litura at end of cell ; a slightly obhque dark 

 grey central stripe ; external area dark grey, diffused internally, 

 crossed from anal angle nearly to apex by a whitish stripe ; a 

 second abbreviated marginal whitish stripe at extremity of radial 

 interspaces ; a slender black marginal hne ; a nebulous dusky spot 

 just below the middle of the external border, and extending into 

 the fringe, which is otherwise creamy white; thorax grey in front, 

 whitish behmd ; abdomen whitish, crossed by broad pale greyish 

 bands; under surface creamy yellowish; markings similar m all 

 the wings, the costal areas grey- speckled ; disco-cellular spots 

 narrow, blackish; a dark grey undulated arched post-median 

 stripe, not reaching the inner margins, followed by a shghtly 

 irregular internally diffused, externally undulated, grey discal 

 stripe ; a large diffused apical greyish brown spot, and a second 

 similar spot (almost black on the secondaries) just below the middle 

 of external border ; a slender undulated blackish marginal line ; 

 anterior and middle femora and tibiae grey above. Expanse of 

 wings, 38 mm. 



Peak Downs. 



TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1886. PART IV. (DEC.) 2 F 



