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97. Elphos exalbata s])i'c. nov. 



Foreiring : white witli a few grey striae ; the basal third, a hirge si[narG 

 apical space, and a shallow blotch along inner margin at anal angle grey-tinted and 

 speckled and mixed with yellow ; first line at one-fonrth, black, vertical, forming 

 strong curves above and below the median vein ; outer line commencing at two- 

 thirds, dentate outwards and not reaching beyond vein (1, the lower part below 

 vein 2 forming a deep sinus to vein 1 and an oblique line inwards to before middle 

 of inner margin ; submarginal line pale grey, only visible through the apical blotch, 

 the white ground-colour invading the central fascia above middle and reaching 

 hindmargiu between veins 1 and 3, and the inner margin partially beyond 

 middle. 



Hindwing : with costal and hiudmargins broadly grey-brown, the bluish- 

 white Innulato submarginal line, the lunules filled up with dark, being uninter- 

 rupted, and the commencement of the outer line shown as far as vein 6, the whole 

 interior of the wing being white, sparsely sjieckled with fuscous grey ; on the inner 

 margin the outer line is shown by a grey lunnle, and three vein-spots mark the 

 inner line. 



Underside with basal two-fifths, apical third, and anal blotch smoky fuscous, 

 the area between them, except along costa, white, without speckling, but with 

 the veins across it black ; hindwing white, with broad smoky black marginal 

 border to near middle of costa. 



Head and thorax grey ; abdomen with basal segments pale grey, becoming 

 yellow towards end ; its underside yellow ; legs fuscous ; pectus ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 82 mm. 



1 <?. 



98. Gasterocome subdivisa spec. nov. 



Forewing : bright pale ochreous, the speckling and markings olive-brown ; 

 costa with close striations ; a small blotch at base ; a broad antemedian fascia with 

 its outer edge curved, formed by a dark line rising from a costal spot : (^etitral 

 fascia above middle formed of two blotches, one median, the other postmedian, of 

 which the median is itself often subdivided from below ; below middle of one curved 

 triangular blotch, also subdivided on inner margin by a pale line ; the outer edge 

 of median patch and inner edge of postmedian formed by the usual median and 

 outer lines ; marginal area formed of two patches, through which the pale wavy 

 submarginal line is conspicuous ; a broad streak of pale ground-colour runs from 

 base below median vein to hindmargin separating all these markings, the pale 

 ground ap]iearing as a short band near base, an inwardly oblique antemedian band, 

 and a similar band from apex to two-thirds of inner margin, joined at middle by 

 another from beyond middle of costa, forming a Y ; the pale spaces are more or less 

 speckled with fuscous and in the ? ? tinged with tawny ; a row of marginal 

 triangular spots between veins ; fringe fuscous, with a dark middle lino, and 

 interrujited by ochreous at apex and between veins 3 and 4. 



Hintlwiiig : with basal half pale, coarsely fuscous-sprckled, with an obscure 

 antemedian and distinct sinuous postmedian dark line with a large ocelloid cell-spot 

 between them ; the outer line followed by a broad brown fascia, a pale band of 

 ground-colour, and a marginal brown border containing the whitish submarginal 

 line, which is preceded by blsick blotches. 



