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HADENID. 
63. Lamprosticta bella, n. s. 
Primaries above chalky greenish white, irregularly 
spotted and streaked with black, brown and grey, so as 
to give it somewhat the aspect of Dianthecia conspersa 
and Diphtera deridens; the form of the wings, however, 
agrees with Lamprosticta ; basal third white, with three 
black costal spots, the third of which is the commence- 
ment of the inner edge of the central belt; a black spot 
near the base of the cell, connected with the second 
costal spot by a curved brown dash; a curved subbasal 
black marking just below the cell; a reniform black- 
edged spot placed obliquely below the latter, and united 
externally to a whitish-centred brown spot ; base of inner 
border brown; central third best described as black, 
crossed obliquely by a broad and irregularly notched 
greenish white band, which includes the orbicular spot, 
a black linear dot in the latter, and a second on the 
costa above it, a bluish black and very slender linear 
dot below it; reniform spot transverse, quadrate; the 
interval between the orbicular and reniform spots occu- 
pied by a black-edged brown spot; costa from the reni- 
form spot to apex alternately white and black; a 
triangular black costal spot just beyond the central belt, 
below which is a transverse discal streak of purplish 
grey and brown, interrupted on the interno-median 
interspace, and partly edged externally by an uneven 
curved black line, which runs to the external angle ; two 
very irregular submarginal black spots, one crossing the 
radial interspaces and the other divided by the first 
median branch; fringe spotted with brown and traversed 
by a slightly darker line; secondaries shining dark 
bronzy brown; fringe snow-white, traversed, excepting 
towards the anal angle, by a brown line ; thorax creamy 
white ; the palpi (excepting the last joint), eyes, antenne, 
two longitudinal dashes on the head, back of collar, and 
borders of tegulz, black; abdomen dark greyish brown, 
pale towards the base; primaries below cupreous-brown, 
with dark greyish brown costal border, spotted beyond 
the cell with white; fringe alternately black and white, 
traversed near the base by a dark brown line ; secondaries 
with greyish brown costal area, otherwise whitish with 
bronzy reflections ; a distinct obtusely angulated discal 
TRANS. ENT. 00. 1881.—PaRT Ul. (JULY.) 2B 
