86 Sir Geo. H. Kenrick on 



pale grey suffused with lilac with dark brown lines; basal line 

 oblique and diffused, antemedian line oblique and angulated; 

 median line faint and interrupted; postmedian double, angulated, 

 and not very oblique; in the female with a round spot just before 

 the inner margin ; subterminal line composed of G V-shaped mark- 

 ings ; a more or less pronounced dark shade beyond the antemedian 

 line, most conspicuous towards costa. Hind-wing dark grey, fringes 

 pale. Exp. 50 mm. 



Scalmicauda obliquifasciata, sp. n. Plate I. 



Head and legs reddish brown, pal]ii paler, antennae and collar* 

 dark brown; thorax above pinkish; abdomen dark at the base, 

 then ochreous, but tuft blackish. Fore-wing pinkish brown, with 

 a brownish cloud, more or less intense, from cell to costa; a fine 

 double line from middle of inner margin to apex; an irregular 

 dark bro\vn transverse line at base, reaching half across wing, 

 followed by an angulated antemedian line; the 3 stigmata are of 

 the ground-colour, but outlined by fine dark lines fringes dark. 

 Hind-wing pale straw-colour with fringes concolorous. Exp. 

 44 mm. 



Varies a good deal in intensity of colour, and the stig- 

 mata in some specimens are more or less black. 



Scalmicauda ochreopicta, sp. n. Plate II. 



Somewhat like the foregoing, but has no oblique line; the stig- 

 mata are barely discernible, and in most specimens the area at 

 base of wing and at the angle is spotted with pale ochreous. Hind- 

 wing much darker than in the preceding species. Exp. 40 mm. 



Scalmicauda pratti, sp. n. Plate II. 



Head, legs, palpi, and thorax reddish brown, shaft of antennae 

 pale; abdomen reddish brown, paler beneath, tuft of the same 

 colour. Fore-wing reddish brown, mottled with pale ochreous, 

 which forms a patch extending from cell to near apex; a black 

 spot at base of wing, and a whitish horizontal line extending from 

 base to near middle of inner margin, where it meets an irregular 

 transverse pale line extending to costa; a black streak at end of 

 cell, and a pale postmedian waved line with dark border; 8 black 

 dots form a subterminal line, and a pale line precedes the margin. 

 Hind-wing reddish ochreous. Exp. 34 mm. 



