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Hind wing pale golden-yellow ; a conspicuous blackish discocellular spot ; apex clouded 

 with dark fuscous : cilia pale yellowish, whitish at tips. 



Seychelles. — Two male specimens, both taken at Cascade Estate, Mahe, the first by 

 myself on 2 November, 1905, the second by Mr. J. A. de Gaye in March 1907. 



143. Phlyctcenodes massalis, Wlk. 



Scapula massalis, Wlk., Cat. xviii. p. 792. 



Dosara calatalis, Wlk., Cat. xix. p. 829 ; Hampson, 111. Het. ix. 1. 172. f. 22; Joannis, Ann. S. E. 



France, 1894, p. 435. 

 Phlyctcenodes massalis, Hampson, Moths Ind. iv. p. 408, £. 221 ; Pag., Lep.-Het. Madag. p. 137. 



Coetivy.- — Four specimens. Three without exact data, the fourth taken on 24 September, 

 1905, when the species was noted as readily taking to wing in the daytime and having 

 a distinct partiality for tufts of grass. 



Poivre. — Only one specimen taken, but the moth was fairly common. 



D'Arros. — One specimen. Not common ; over dry grass. 



Desroches. — Eour specimens. Abundant over short herbage. 



Eagle I. — One specimen ; 17 October, 1905. Noted as common. 



Seychelles. — Six examples; five from Erigate Island {Connor), and one taken in 

 St. Anne I. on 26 October, 1905. 



Distribution. — Accra ; Transvaal ; Madagascar ; Amirantes ; Coetivy ; Seychelles ; 

 K. India ; Ceylon ; Queensland ; N. S. Wales. 



This species will probably be found to have a very wide range, but it is inconspicuous 

 and easily overlooked in the field. 



144. Antigastra catalaunalis, Dup. 



Botys catalaunalis, Dup., Lep. France, viii. p. 330, t. 232. f. 8. 



Antigastra catalaunalis, Josinma, Ann. S.E.France, 1894, p. 436; Hampson, Moths Ind. iv. p. 412, 

 f. 224 ; Hampson, Nat. Hist. Sokotra, p. 338 ; Pag., Lep.-Het. Madag. p. 137 (1907). 



Seychelles. — Received by M. de Joannis from Mah^. 



Distribution. — Europe ; Syria ; W. and E. Africa ; Aden ; Abd-el-Kuri ; Comoro Is. ; 

 Seychelles (Mah6) ; India ; Burma ; Ceylon. 



145. Fyrmista mahensis, sp. n. (Plate 17. fig. 14.) 



6 . Exp. 26 mm. Labial palpi porrect, thickly and triangularly scaled, terminal joint 

 not visible; fuscous above, white below. Antennse as long as fore wing, very minutely 

 ciliated. Head, thorax, and basal half of abdomen pale greyish-fuscous, anal half of 

 abdomen dark fuscous. Legs pale greyish-fuscous ; fore leg with large tuft of hair-like 

 scales on fore tibia and with first tarsal joint clothed with long fuscous scales, other 

 tarsal joints irrorated with fuscous ; median leg dark fuscous on tibia and tarsi ; posterior 

 tibia with outer medial spur about half length of inner and approximately equal in 

 length to both posterior spurs. 



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