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74. Gymnoscelis festiva spec. uov. 



Foreicing : srreyisli green first line at (lue-tlIir^^, projecting above median, then 

 oblique, preceded above median by a purplish shade, and crossed by two or three 

 whitish lines, the base sometimes darker ; outer line at three-fifths, curved to 

 vein 5, then forming a blunt projection to vein 2, and a smaller one below, preceded 

 by a purplish suffusion which jmles off into greenish towards first line ; both lines 

 finely edged externally with whitish ; submargiual line dentate, whitish, preceded 

 by reddish lunules at costa, beyond cell, and above inner margin, and followed by 

 reddish suffusion beyond cell and at anal angle ; marginal line fine ; fringe ])a]e. 



lUiitJwing : with outer line dark and projecting below median ; a dark cell- 

 spot ; the rest as in forewing ; inner margin and the fringes thereof thickly 

 black-dusted ; the submedian interspace pale without markings. 



Underside whitish, tinged with greenish on forewing, with the outer Hue and 

 cell-spots shown. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish green. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



2 ? ?. 



Mimics Cldoroch/stis rujifascia Hmpsn. 



75. Rhinoprora lineola spec. nov. 



Forewing : purplish brown and grey ; the basal patch and central fascia 

 wholly, the band before submargiual line interruptedly, purplish browu ; marginal 

 area beyond outer line purplish grey ; basal patch and central fascia edged by a very 

 fine white dark-margined line, which on each side of the fascia is followed by an 

 olive-yellow band ; in the space beyond basal fascia this band is preceded by a 

 thicker band of mixed brown-grey and whitish scales broadening to costa, and in the 

 outer space is followed by a thick waved browu line ; all the dark markings and lines 

 are finely mixed with vinous scales, especially along costa, where the paler markings 

 become red ; a line of black marginal lunules; fringe deep, dark jmrplish, the basal 

 half darker, followed by a darker line in the paler outer half; the whole darker- 

 chequered beyond veins. 



Hiiuhving : rosy ochreous, grey-tinged towards hindmargin, with dark cell- 

 spot and curved central line ; marginal lunules and fringe as in forewing. 



Underside rufous, suffused with purplish grey, most thickly along hindmargins, 

 and sprinkled with white scales ; the lines more or less indicated on costal half of 

 forewing, the cell-sjiot and central line of hindwing black ; submargiual line a 

 row of white spots. 



Vertex, face, and palpi internally ochreous mixed with reddish ; palpi and 

 frontal cone externally black ; thorax and abdomen a mixture of purplish fuscous 

 and reddish scales, the segmental rings purplish with reddish tips ; abdomen 

 beneath and all the legs black, mottled with ochreous scales ; antennae black. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



4 c?c?,2 ? ?. 



In this s])ecies the basal segment of palpi forms a beak below like the second 

 segment above ; and the neuration is that oi Euci/matogc, 10 anastomosing with 11 

 and 8, 9 ; the antennae have tliickened angular segments, pubescent in the ?, in 

 the (J with two jiairs of fine fascicles from each segment ; the anal tuft of S 

 is palpably bifid. 



