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British Lepidoptera. I have three species referable to it. Two are 

 here described ; the third has white forewings, and resembles 

 nearly examples I have received with the name Fsecadia postica, 

 Z., of which I have not yet seen the description. 



PSECADIA IIILARELLA. Walk. 



Azinis hilarella{Wsi[kev, Bvit. Mus. Cat., XXVIII., p. 542 ; 

 Moore, Lepid, Ceylon, III., p. 506, plate 209, tig. 3). 



Male and female, 25-35 mm. Head whitish-grey, with two 

 black dots posteriorly. Palpi whitish-grey, with black annula- 

 tions, second joint with a basal and subapical, terminal with a 

 basal and apical ring. Antennse grey, with a black dot on basal 

 joint ; towards apex dark-fuscous. Thorax slaty-grey, with two 

 pairs of black dots. Abdomen deep-orange with a cental black 

 dot on first six segments. Legs grey, with black annulations ; 

 posterior femora orange. Forewings elongate, not dilated, costa 

 moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin straight, scarcely 

 oblique ; slaty-grey with black dots ; one at base of costa and 

 of inner-margin, two just beyond these, one on costa at one- 

 fifth, one on fold, two near inner-margin at one-fifth and two- 

 fifths, two in a line beneath costa, and two in a line below 

 middle of disc ; five arranged in a circle beneath apex ; a line of 

 about ten on hindmargin ; cilia dark-grey, apices paler. Hind- 

 wings golden-orange, with a triangular blackish blotch at apex ; 

 cilia dark-fuscous at apex, thence orange. 



A large and handsome species, which must have an extensive 

 geographical distribution. The yntenme in the male are some- 

 what serrate, but its close relationship to the following species 

 shows that it must be referred to this genus. 



Brisbane ; also from Ceylon. 



PSECADIA HEPTASEMA, U. Sp. 



Male and female, 18-20 mm. Head whitish-grey. Palpi 

 whitish-grey, terminal joint blackish. Thorax grey, with two 

 black dots on anterior margin ; patagia whitish-grey, apex black. 

 Abdomen pale-ochreous. Legs grey, with blackish annulations ; 

 posterior femora pale-ochreous. Forewings elongate, not dilated, 

 costa moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin straight, 

 slightly oblique ; grey, with black dots ; a black spot at base, 

 with whitish-grey centre ; a black dot on fold, a second beneath 

 costa at one-fifth, a third in a line with second, two in centre of 

 disc at about middle and three-fourths, and two more beneath 

 apex; a, row of four dots along hindmargin ; cilia grey. Hind- 

 wings grey, towards inner-margin ochreous-whitish ; cilia grey at 

 apex, gradually becoming ochreous-whitish towards anal angle. 



Brisbane. 



