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116. Boarmia cpistictis, n. s. 

 (? ? , 48 — 50 mm. Head ochreous-whitisb. Palpi ocbreous- 

 wbitish, irrorated with dark fuscous. Anteunse irregularly marbled 

 with wbitisb-ocbreous and dark fuscous. Tborax ocbreous- 

 wbitisb, more or less mixed with ochreous and dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen wbitisb-ocbreous or whitish, irrorated with dark fuscous, 

 in (7 with base covered above by a flat spreading tuft of white 

 scales from posterior edge of thorax, and with lateral margins 

 slightly tufted above middle. Legs whitish-ocbreous irrorated 

 with fuscous, anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi dark fuscous 

 ringed with wbitisb-ocbreous. Fore wings with costa posteriorly 

 moderately arched, bind margin rounded, rather strongly oblique ; 

 10 and 11 free ; pale brownisb-ocbreous, irrorated with dark 

 fuscous, in ^ more or less suffused with white beyond first line 

 and on a broad cloudy streak running from disc at two-thirds to 

 apex, in J more or less wholly suffused with white ; first and 

 second lines black, well-marked, irregulai-ly subdentate, in J 

 tending to be interrupted ; first from one-third of costa to one- 

 fourth of inner margin, somewhat curved, slightly prominent in 

 middle, dilated on costa ; second from two-thirds of costa to 

 three-fifths of inner margin, upper half slightly sinuate outwards, 

 dilated on costa; discal spot represented by a cloudy blackish 

 suffusion, in J mixed with white scales, more or less connected 

 with a small cloudy blackish spot on middle of costa ; faint 

 indications of a darker median shade passing through this midway 

 between first and second lines ; subterminal white, tolerably 

 defined, regularly dentate, anteriorly margined by a cloudy 

 blackish suffused spot above middle ; in ? a darker brownish 

 suffusion beyond subterminal from beneath apex to above middle 

 of bind margin, in <? less marked ; a hind-marginal series of black 

 dots, sometimes connected with short blackish streaks between 

 veins ; cilia white, more or less suffusedly and indistinctly barred 

 with pale brownish. Hind wings with bind margin rounded, 

 crenulate; colour and markings as in fore wings, but first line 

 obsolete, median shade well-marked, more or less thick, blackish, 

 nearly straight; discal spot more distuictly white, black-margined ; 

 second line curved outwards on upper two-thirds, often more 

 strongly marked ; subterminal without the dark marginal suffusions 

 above middle, but sometimes margined anteriorly with a blackish 

 suffusion towards lower extremity. 



Seven specimens {Saycr). 



