﻿new 
  Species 
  of 
  Mastigophorus. 
  359 
  

  

  lated 
  bisinuated 
  postmedian 
  band, 
  and 
  prominent 
  macular 
  

   black 
  discal 
  stripe 
  on 
  the 
  primaries, 
  the 
  darker-bordered 
  and 
  

   more 
  distinctly 
  pale-banded 
  secondaries, 
  and 
  the 
  flexuous 
  

   instead 
  of 
  angular, 
  regularly 
  densely 
  fringed 
  palpi 
  terminating 
  

   in 
  a 
  shorter 
  brush-bearing 
  joint. 
  

  

  Mastigophorus 
  mirabilis. 
  sp. 
  n. 
  

  

  c? 
  . 
  Primaries 
  dark 
  greyish 
  piceous 
  ; 
  a 
  short 
  arched 
  irregu- 
  

   lar 
  black 
  line, 
  edged 
  externally 
  with 
  ochreous, 
  close, 
  to 
  the 
  

   base 
  ; 
  an 
  unequally 
  trisinuated, 
  externally 
  black-bordered, 
  

   ochreous 
  line 
  at 
  about 
  the 
  basal 
  fourth 
  representing 
  the 
  inner 
  

   limitation 
  of 
  the 
  central 
  belt 
  : 
  a 
  tricoloured 
  augulated 
  band 
  

   flesh-colour, 
  black 
  and 
  ochreous, 
  immediately 
  beyond 
  the 
  

   middle, 
  impinged 
  upon 
  by 
  the 
  reniform 
  spot 
  and 
  representing 
  

   the 
  outer 
  limitation 
  of 
  the 
  central 
  belt 
  ; 
  orbicular 
  spot 
  repre- 
  

   sented 
  by 
  a 
  pure 
  white 
  dot 
  with 
  black 
  margin, 
  in 
  the 
  middle 
  

   of 
  the 
  discoidal 
  cell 
  ; 
  reniform 
  spot 
  narrow, 
  angular 
  in 
  front, 
  

   brown, 
  almost 
  entirely 
  edged 
  with 
  pure 
  white, 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  repre- 
  

   sent 
  an 
  irregular 
  white 
  R 
  ; 
  a 
  black 
  patch 
  from 
  just 
  above 
  the 
  

   angle 
  of 
  the 
  postmedian 
  band 
  to 
  a 
  slender 
  and 
  indistinct 
  

   undulated 
  ochreous 
  discal 
  line, 
  which 
  bounds 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  large 
  

   and 
  for 
  the 
  most 
  part 
  confluent 
  black 
  spots, 
  which 
  form 
  a 
  

   bisinuated 
  band 
  from 
  apex 
  almost 
  to 
  external 
  angle 
  ; 
  a 
  mar- 
  

   ginal 
  series 
  of 
  small 
  subconfluent 
  black 
  spots, 
  followed 
  by 
  an 
  

   ochreous 
  line 
  at 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  fringe 
  : 
  secondaries 
  smoky 
  

   grey, 
  the 
  external 
  third 
  much 
  darker, 
  bounded 
  internally 
  by 
  

   a 
  pale 
  diffused 
  stripe 
  and 
  traversed 
  by 
  a 
  slightly 
  dentate- 
  

   sinuated 
  whitish 
  line 
  ; 
  a 
  marginal 
  series 
  of 
  black 
  lunules, 
  

   followed 
  by 
  a 
  yellowish-white 
  line 
  at 
  base 
  of 
  fringe 
  : 
  head 
  

   and 
  thorax 
  dark 
  piceous 
  ; 
  palpi 
  ochraceous, 
  the 
  fringes 
  tipped 
  

   with 
  black; 
  abdomen 
  smoky 
  greyish 
  brown, 
  darker 
  towards 
  

   the 
  base, 
  the 
  segments 
  edged 
  with 
  whitish 
  ; 
  legs 
  blackish, 
  

   banded 
  with 
  ochraceous 
  or 
  yellowish 
  white 
  above, 
  whity 
  

  

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