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form. Underside of fore-wing with reduced basal streak and 

 cell-bar. Fringes entirely black. 



8 $ £, 1 $ obtained. 



'25. Mimeusemia nigrescens, sp. nov. 



(Plate VI, fig. 4, ?.) 



This species is most nearly allied to proerosia, Druce, 

 I mm the Key Islands, but is at once distinguished by the 

 black ground-colour. 



$. Upperside black. Fore-wing with a pale yellow almost cream- 

 coloured discal band placed at right angles to costa and extending 

 from subcostal to near tornus, constricted slightly in upper part 

 and rounded posteriorly, accompanied by a curved mark at its 

 lower distal edge; some metallic blackish-blue markings com- 

 prising a spot in cell, a stripe closing cell, an inwardly curved row 

 of 5 dots just beyond the band, some scaling along anterior margin 

 of cell and along lower submedian. Hind-wing with pale yellow 

 marginal patches more extended than in proerosia; fringe pale 

 yellow, blackish proximal ly. 



Underside blackish-brown. Fore-wing paler along inner margin; 

 band as above, bent inwards below first submedian; some pale 

 yellow scaling along inner margin. Hind-tiring with series of 

 marginal spots, two at apex obscure and free from margin, two 

 streaks in 4 and 5 which scarcely touch margin. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black, pectus orange; tegulae pale 

 yellow on inner edge; patagia traversed by a pale yellow line 

 reaching below the eyes ; a pale yellow line above the eyes on crown 

 of head; palpi black, first segment fringed with pale yellow and 

 second segment pale yellow inside; anal tuft orange; legs black, 

 femora orange. 



Length of fore-wing : -~ mm. 



A single specimen. 



I fEOMETMDAE. 

 26. Dysphania tentans schoulensis, subsp. n. 



3 ?. Darker than tentans, Wlk. Upperside. — Fore-wing with do 



pale stripe below the cell; apical and post-median spots 



more or less reduced. Hind-wing with wider margin and reduced 



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