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two-thirds, angled inwards above and outwards below vein 6, then obliqne inwards 

 and straight, but forming a sinus across submedian interval ; this is followed by a 

 parallel tawny and grey shade ; median line passing inside or touching the black 

 cell-spot and aiijiroximated to outer line at inner margin ; submarginal line wavy, 

 lunnlate, whitish, the lunules aliove vein 7, between 6 and 4, and below vein 3 filled 

 in with black, interrupted between by pale ochreous ; marginal spots black ; fringe 

 ochreous, sometimes chequered with darker. Sometimes the pale areas along the 

 submedian interspace become whitish ; sometimes a tawny shade rnns longitudinally 

 above median and along vein (i. 



Huuhrinq : without first line ; the antemedian slightly sinuous, tawuy, the 

 postmediaii sinuous, dentated, and blackish ; the rest as in forewing. 



Underside pale oclireous ; the forewings tinged with grey ; cell-spots and outer 

 lines slightly shown. 



Head, thora.x, and abdomen pale ochreous ; head and thorax often darker, 

 olive-ochreous ; abdomen with basal segments often marked with black-brown. 



? with wings much longer in proportion, suffused throughout with rufous, and 

 marked with hoary grey along cell and submedian interspace and in the submarginal 

 lunules ; the only pale ochreous tint remaining being the submarginal line ; all 

 the markings as in the S, but the shades accompanying the inner and outer lines 

 less conspicuous ; the fringe greyer ;. ovipositor long, exserted. 



The form of the $ above described was made typical as being nearest to that of 

 the ?. A second, apparently equally common with the type, may be known as 

 ab. decolor ; in this all tawny and dark grey shades disappear ; the pale ochreous 

 ground-colour is dusted with olivaceous ochreous ; the two lines are marked only by 

 dark vein-spots, and the shades accompanying them and the submarginal line are 

 inconspicnons. Of this paler form two less common developments occur: in one, 

 ab. maculata, the sj)ace between outer and submarginal line below vein 4 and the 

 marginal space beyond, except between 3 and 4, is chestnut-brown ; and the shade 

 before first line of forewings and that beyond second line of bindwiugs on inner 

 margin is of the same colour ; the other, ab. ocellata, is suifused with rufous, and 

 the cell-spots in both wings have pale centres within brown rings. 



Expanse of wings : (?, 35 — 40 mm.: ? , 44 — 46 mm. 



21 c?cJ of the type-form ; 18 J c? of ali. decolor; 2 tj cj of ab. ocdluta, and 

 1 S of ab. maculnta ; and 4 ? ? only. 



96. Blepharoctenucha albescens Warr., Nov. Zool. iii. p. 400. 



The description was made from a $ and two ? ^ from S. Java, from 

 Frnhstorfer's collection, taken in 1891, at an altitude of 1500 metres. 



In Tram. Ent. Sac. 1902. p. 619, Colonel Swinhoe says : " These are South 

 American insects with wrong locality labels on them. There is a ? in the B.M. 

 registered San Pedro, Honduras (If'ruhstorfer), which is probably the correct 

 locality ; they have not the appearance of Eastern insects." 



Why the f,//ree labels in Coll. Rothschild should be wrong and the one label in 

 the B.M. right, is not stated. 



Among the insects lately received from New Guinea, from the Ui)per Aroa 

 Hiver, is a jiair of /i. a/be.tcen.s Warr., corresponding exactly with the types from 

 Java ; and as all the insects of this collection were sent liomc ready set, there can 

 be no question about their Eastern origin, or erroneous labels. My friend Colonel 

 Swinhoe must request the authorities at the British Museum to correct theirs. 



