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suffused with light buff at base and with a dorsal cinnamon brown 

 tuft; anal hairs whitish buff; underneath buff white with a benzo 

 brown ventral line, and traces of dark segmental lines. Fore wing: 

 A black spot at base, outwardly curved with a black branch at base 

 of median extending to the black space beyond, with an avellaneous 

 shade above and below it crossed by a double sinuous chestnut and 

 black line; cell and just beyond to inner margin fuscous black, the 

 costa and part of inner margin avellaneous; traces of an antemedial 

 and double medial black line, the entire dark space limited by a nar- 

 row black shade inbent from costa to inner margin; a double broken 

 light buff line partly edged with velvety black at discocellular; post- 

 medial and terminal area largely suffused with huffy brown, and 

 below vein 2 with light buff, crossed by two broken, somewhat puncti- 

 form black lines; a broad subterminal black line, straight from apex 

 to vein 2, its outer edge expanding on veins, followed on interspaces 

 by small velvety black lunules; an oblique white streak at tornus; a 

 terminal black line; cilia fuscous partly mottled with white. 



Hind wing dark buffy brown; cilia partly whitish. 



Expanse 49 mm. 



Habitat. — Surigao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 



Type— C&t. No. 33437, U.S.N.M. 



Close to B. xylinata Walker with the type of which it was compared. 



LIPAROPSIS DYMPNA, new species 



Male. — Palpi and head mottled russet and white. Collar white 

 with a line of black scales anteriorly. Thorax cinnamon brown and 

 fuscous. Abdomen white; some light drab hairs at base and dorsally. 

 Fore wing: Base narrowly white edged by a fuscous Une indentate 

 below median; antemedial space sayal brown partly clouded with 

 fuscous, its outer edge oblique to inner margin beyond middle; post- 

 medial line white outcurved below costa with black and white points 

 on veins 5 to 1, followed by short fuscous streaks on veins 6 and 5, 

 and a white space to apex; the medial triangular space formed by 

 the two lines white thickly irrorated with light drab and deep mouse 

 gray ; a sinuous white line on discocellular, usually separated into two 

 spots; terminal space below vein 5, and more narrowly on termen to 

 vein 7 sayal brown. Hind wing white; some chestnut irrorations 

 above vein 6 to apex and on costa; a fine terminal black line not 

 reaching anal angle; a fuscous spot on cilia at apex; some light buff 

 suffusions on inner margin. 



Expanse 29 mm. 



Habitat. — Surigao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 



Type.— Cat. No. 33438, U.S.N.M. 



Close to L. postalbida Hampson, and L.jormosana Wilemen. 



