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distance apart ; the lower disco-cellular vein of the fore wings 

 (closing the discoidal cell), although oblique, is nearly straight. 

 The palpi are much compressed, of moderate size, thickly clothed 

 with close adpressed hairs, the terminal joint distinct, slender, 

 acute at the tip, and raised to the level of the top of the crown of 

 the head. The antennae are long, gradually but slightly clavate, 

 the tip a little curved and acute ; they are brown, the outer half 

 ferruginous. From all these characters I have no hesitation in re- 

 garding this insect as a distinct subgenus, to which I have applied 

 the name of Xanthotcenia, in allusion to the yellow fascia of the 

 fore wings. The general colour of the wings above is rich but 

 dull chestnut-brown ; the hind wings immaculate ; the fore ones 

 with the outer half dark brown, with a moderately broad, nearly 

 straight yellow fascia, extending from the middle of the costa 

 nearly to the outer margin (below the middle), and with a sub- 

 apical white dot. Beneath the wings are pale brown (without 

 any chestnut tinge), the hind wings with four deeply scalloped, 

 slender brown strigse, the space between the second and third 

 being the widest, inclosing eight ocelli of unequal size, the second 

 and sixth from the costa being the largest ; they are thickly pow- 

 dered with grey scales, and are surrounded by a very narrow 

 yellow ring : the space between the third and fourth strigae is 

 paler than the rest of the wing, and between the first and second 

 strigae is a short transverse dark line, being the vein closing the 

 discoidal cell. In the fore wings the discoidal cell is marked in 

 the middle with a very strong angulated brown slender line, and 

 between the white subapical dot and the extremity of the yellow 

 oblique fascia are two small nearly rudimental ocelli similar to 

 those of the hind wings. 



I here take the opportunity of adding a figure and description 

 of a striking species of the genus Discophora, of which short 

 characters were published in the *' Genera of Diurnal Lepi- 

 doptera." 



Discophora Zal, Westw. 

 (Plate 21, figs. 5 and 6.) 

 D. alis anticis apice subfalcatis ; posticis in medio marginis 

 postici anguloque anali angulatis ; supra fulvis, anticarum 

 costa pallida, diniidioque apicali fusco triplici serie macu- 

 larum, serie interna alba, alis fulvis; posticis fulvis triplici 

 serie lunularum fuscarum nubilaque submarginali fusca : 



