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ending on the upper edge of the cell, is rounded, and is com- 

 pletely encircled by a fine ochreous line which runs down it 

 on each side to the hinder margin ; the usual black spot in 

 this margin near the angle is absent ; hind wing, head, body, 

 antennae, and the entire underside dark brown, like the 

 ground-colour of the fore wings above, aud very uniform in 

 tone. 



? . Much as in the female of plagifera, Walker ; the 

 discal patch of the fore wing narrower, corresponding hind- 

 wards to the patch on the male. 



Expanse of wings, £ hfo, $ ofo inches. 



Hub. Singapore, Selangor. 



Types in B. M. 



Hadenidae. 



Cirplus sumatrana, nov. 



$ . Fore wing greyish white with chestnut-brown scales., 

 a whitish subcostal streak, an antemedial and a postmedial 

 black spot on the costa, the base and cell suffused with 

 chestnut-brown, the veins white, the median vein to the end 

 o£ the cell rather thickly white ending with a white spot 

 with a black dot on each side of it, the rest of the wing more 

 or less finely streaked with brown ; a brown band from the 

 outer margin below the apex to the hinder margin one-third 

 from the angle, the band thickens upwards : hind wing 

 white, the veins grey, a rather prominent brown spot at the 

 end of the cell ; both wings with small black marginal spots 

 in the interspaces ; cilia of fore wing pale brown and white, 

 of the hind wing pure white. Underside white : fore wing 

 with some pale brown suffusion on the upper disc ; a black 

 spot on the end of the cell, another beyond it and a black 

 spot above the latter, on the costa : hind wing with a rather 

 large black spot at the end of the cell, a discal whorl of 

 black dots ; both wings with somewhat prominent black 

 marginal dots ; head and palpi pale chestnut ; thorax, 

 abdomen, and anal crest grey. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



Ilab. Padang, Sumatra. 



Catocalidae. 



Erebus lombokensis, nov. 



? . Belongs to the macrops group (Nyctipao), smaller 

 than javanensis, Hampson, or nyctaoulis, Snellen, has the 



