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enclosed elongated sub-costal cell before whose acute outer end the 

 second s. c. nervule is thrown off upon the costa before the apex ; 

 from the acute outer end of the subcostal cell issues the third subcos- 

 tal, or a cornmon stem from which divaricate the third and fifth sub- 

 costals; shortly after this divarication the fourth subcostal nervule is 

 emitted from the lower side of the third upon the costa at apex just 

 within which the third subcostal itself joins the margin ; from the 

 lower side of the subcostal cell, which is here angulated, and at first 

 opposed to that from whence the second subcostal leaves the upper 

 side of the cell, the sixth s. c. nervule is thrown from a very short 

 stem outwards and dowuwards upon the external margin ; the discal 

 cell is large and not closed by a true nervure but by a fold or thicken- 

 ing of the tegument; first, second and third median nervules nearly 

 equidistant at base, third slightly the more removed, fourth remote; 

 u submedian fold on the wide interspace. Secondaries : costal and 

 subcostal nervures united at base ; subcostal dividing into first and 

 seconds, c. nervules; discal cell open as on primaries; a distinct me- 

 dian fold; median nervure three branched, first and second median 

 nervules thrown ofi^ from one point, third more remote; internal ner- 

 vure straight. 



The genius is related to Orthosia. 



Ctoephora fungorum, n. s. (Plate 3, fig. 74 "J, .) 



% $ . — Dull purplish, red, concolorous. Head and prothorax con- 

 colorous. more purplish than the palpi, under thoracic surface behind 

 the head and legs which are darker and more reddish. Centrally the 

 under thoracic squamation is purplish outwardly, but the long scales are 

 pale at their base. Antennae testaceous; the stem outwardly at base 

 whitish. Tibial spurs dotted with whitish. Abdomen tinged with 

 yellowish. 



Primaries dull purplish red, but overlaid with a pale shade; orna- 

 mentation simple. The transverse anterior and posterior lines are 

 even, single and narrowly linear ; the first slightly undulate superiorly, 

 the latter slightly and evenly projected over the nervules beyond the 

 discal cell, thence running evenly and slightly inwardly to internal 

 margin. The ordinary spots are large and of the normal shape, but 

 their aunuli are so faint that they are with difiiculty to be detected. 

 Centrally they show a yellowish mark. Between them, and limited on 

 either side by their annuli which are here more apparent, is a sub- 

 quadrate dark purplish shade spot the most prominent marking of the 

 wing. Subterminal shade faint, most apparent on costa. Fringes Jong 



