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!'•'. Xanthorhoe roseopicta spec. nov. 



Foreu-ings : pale grey with darker grey suffusion, tinged in places with vinous ; 

 basal patch and bands of central fascia vinons fuscoQS ; edge of basal patch from 

 one-fifth of costa to one-fourth of inner margin, concave outwards to subcostal, 

 there sharply angled and oblique, almost straight ; two similar Hues across the 

 patch ; inner edge of central fascia curved and waved, followed by two lines, the 

 three together forming a band filled up witli dark fuscous and vinous ; outer band 

 formed of three wavy lines, the outermost forming a beak below vein 4 ; the fascia 

 is preceded and followed by a very fine white line ; cell-spot black, distinct ; sub- 

 marginal line very indistinct, lunular, followed by a dark shade below costa ; pairs 

 of marginal spots at the ends of the veins ; fringe dark grey. 



Ilimlwings: grey, with beginnings of dark lines on inner margin, faintly visible 

 across wing ; cell-spot black. 



Underside vinous grey, paler and black-speckled at liase in hindwings ; the 

 lines and marginal dots finely and neatly exjjressed ; cell-spots distinct. Head 

 and shoulders ochreons grey, speckled with red ; palpi externally fuscous ; thorax 

 fuscous ; abdomen cinereous. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



One c? from (lelebes (Doherty). 



Belongs to the munitata group. 



Xenospora gen. nov. 



This new generic name is proposed for Melanthia latifasciaria Leech {Entom. xxiv. 

 Su]j}jI. {). 53), referred snbseipiently {Ann. Mag. K.H. 1897. xix. p. 30O) to Scoto,sia. 

 The hindwings of the <S have a long fringe of hair beneath along the submedian fold 

 which is somewliat contorted and raised, causing a furrow to appear on each side, 

 and the edge of the inner margin at middle is bluntly elbowed, so that at first sight 

 it might seem referable to the genus Calocalpe Hilb., notwithstanding its superficial 

 dissimilarity. Mr. Leech at the end of his description adds : " This species bears 

 a sujierficial resemblance to (Melanippe) Euh/pe hastata." It is, in fact, closely 

 allied to that genus ; for the areole of the forewings is single as in Eali/pe, 

 veins 10 and 11 being stalked. The genus therefore represents a development from 

 Euh/pe analogous to that of Calocalpe from Triphosa. The hindmargin (if the 

 hindwings is strongly creunlate, the excision beyond cell between veins 4 and ft 

 being unusually prominent, and the forehead below bears a peak of hairs nearly 

 as long as the palpi, which are shortly rostriform, rongh-iiaired, with the joints 

 obscured : antennae quite simple, lamellate. 



Subfamily ASTHENINAE. 



20. Epiphryne citrinata spec. nov. 



Forewings: jiale yellow, crossed by faint waved purplish lines; three curved 

 near base forming a basal patch ; two in middle forming the edges of a median 

 fascia ; the inner tVom just before middle of costa to two-fifths of inner margin, 

 wavy, and somewhat oblique inwards below middle ; the outer from just beyond 

 middle of costa to just beyond middle of inner margin, rather strongly excnrved 

 and dentate-lunnlate between veins 7 and 2 ; a very indistinct line traverses 



