236 Mr. E. Meyrick on the 
straight, rather oblique, rounded beneath; fuscous, densely mixed 
with white, and with a few black scales; an ill-defined cloudy dark 
fuscous oblique fascia near base; first line very obscure, whitish, 
rather indented in middle, posteriorly margined by a moderately 
broad irregular dark fuscous fascia, in which claviform is indicated 
by an obscure blackish mark; orbicular dot-like, dark fuscous, 
touching preceeding fascia; reniform 8-shaped, suffusedly blackish- 
margined, open above and beneath, above connected with costa by 
a dark fuscous spot; second line very obscurely whitish, margined 
anteriorly with dark fuscous on costa and inner margin; hind- 
marginal area dark fuscous; subterminal very obscure, fuscous- 
whitish, touching second line in middle, above this shortly inter- 
rupted; a series of obscure blackish marks on hind margin ; cilia 
whitish, with faintly indicated darker bars, and an interrupted 
grey line. Hind wings 13; fuscous-whitish, apex and upper half 
of hind margin slightly darker; a faint pale post-median line; 
cilia whitish, with a grey line, in male partially obsolete. 
Three specimens. 
38. Xeroscopa pachysema, n. 8. y 
?, 18mm. Head white. Palpi three, black, apex and base 
white. Antenne grey. Thorax black, slightly irrorated with 
white, with a white longitudinal streak on each side of back 
meeting behind. Abdomen pale grey. Legs black, ringed with 
white, posterior tibie white. Fore wings elongate, narrow, 
gradually dilated, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, hind margin 
nearly straight, oblique, rounded beneath; ochreous-white, coarsely 
irrorated with black except in dise; first line thick, straight, 
ochreous-white, well-defined, strongly margined with black on 
both sides; orbicular and claviform confluent to form a large 
round black spot, touching black margin of first line ; reniform sub- 
ovate, black, resting on costa above and second line beneath, 
connected with orbicular in middle, containing a white dot near 
lower extremity ; second line ochreous-white, anteriorly strongly 
margined with black except shortly below reniform ; hind-marginal 
area black; subterminal represented by an ochreous-white streak 
from middle of second line almost to hind margin above anal 
angle, and a short inwardly-oblique ochreous-white mark from 
anal angle; an irregular white hind-marginal line; cilia white, 
with an interrupted blackish line near base, and three or four grey 
quadrate posterior spots round apex. Hind wings 13; pale 
whitish-grey, thinly scaled, posteriorly somewhat darker; a faint 
grey post-median line, followed by a whitish mark below middle ; 
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