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it was noted on 22 June as " abundant but worn " ; it is noteworthy that it was not 

 found in any of the other islands of the Chagos group. 



Distribution. — Gold Coast; Liberia; Kumasi; Natal; Nyasaland; Mayotta; throughout 

 India ; Ceylon ; Maldives ; Nicobars ; Bui-ma ; Singapore ; Hainan ; Japan ; Java ; 

 Bali ; Queensland. 



110. Mabra eryxalis, Wlk. 

 Asopia eryxalis, Walk., Cat. xvii. p. 371. 



Mabra eryxalis, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. t. 179. f. 4; Hampson, Moths lud. iv. p. SAO, f. 145. 



Chagos. — A single specimen from Egmont Is. 



Distribution. — India ; Burma ; Cejlon ; Singapore ; Sarawak ; Sumatra. 



111. Sufetula minimalis, sp. n. (Plate 17. fig. 7.) 



cJ . Exp. 10 mm. Labial palpi upturned, second joint moderately scaled and almost 

 reaching vertex ; third joint long, acuminate ; greyish, apices of segments banded with 

 fuscous. Maxillary palpi long, dilated Avith scales; greyish, banded with fuscous. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish-fuscous, abdomen suffused with fuscous on base of 

 segments ; a long fuscous anal tuft. Antennae shortly ciliated, greyish-fuscous. Legs 

 greyish-fuscous ; tibiae, spurs, and tarsi broadly annulated with darker. 



Eore wing pale grey, with a few scattered fuscous scales ; costa broadly suffused with 

 dark fuscous, cut by a narrow pale streak at \ and by three small pale crescents whose 

 apices lie on the costa, the first at \, the third at about f, and the second midway 

 between the first and third ; a small blackish-fuscous apical triangle whose base lies on 

 costa ; a conspicuous blackish-fuscous spot on discocellulars, touching subcostal suffusion ; 

 a narrow transverse dai'k-f uscous striga, outwardly oblique from below costal suffusion 

 at about f to vein 6, thence incurved to dorsum, which it reaches at about f ; a broad 

 fuscous terminal suflusion, less marked along vein 6 ; termen sharply outlined in blackish- 

 fuscous. Cilia pale fuscous ; a blackish-fuscous apical patch on costa and with darker 

 basal patches on terminations of nervures. 



Hind wing pale greyisli-fuscous ; a blackish discocellular speck ; outer half of wing- 

 indistinctly suffused with fuscous, tending to form transverse bands. Cilia greyish- 

 fuscous, darker basally. 



Coetivy. — A single male taken on the wing at sunset in the marsh behind the settlement. 



The species also occurs in the Seychelles. 



112. Zinekenia fascialis, Cxsoca. 



Phalcenafascialis, Cram., Pap. Exot. iv. t. 398. f. O (1783). 

 Hydrocampa albifascialis, Eoisd., Faun. Mad. Maur. p. 119, t. 16. f. 7 (1833). 

 Spoladea recurvalis, Guenee, Maill. Keun., L^p. p. 63 (1863) 

 Zinckenia recurvalis, Joaimis, Auu. S. E. Prance, 1894, p. 437. 



Zinckenia fascialis, Hampson, Moths Ind. iv. p. 262, f. 158; Pag., Lep.-Het. Madag. p. 133 

 (1907) ; Hampson, A. M. N. H. (8) i. (1908) pp. 478, 484. 



Chagos. — Eleven examples from Salomon (I. Anglaise, I. de la Passe), Peros Banhos 

 (I. Diamant, I. du Coin), and Diego Garcia. 



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