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with black and grey scales on costa and along inner margin near outer angle ; an oblique 

 slightly ex-curved ochreous line from near base to middle of cell ; a second ochreous line 

 from point of origin of vein 6 incurved to the middle of vein 2, then shar-ply angulated, 

 narrower, and incurved to inner margin at two-thirds ; the space between these lines 

 suffused with dark brown, forming a transverse fascia extending from inner margin to near 

 subcostal vein ; an irregular dark brown suffusion near outer margin from apex to vein 3, 

 followed by faint grey and black marginal lines from below apex to near outer angle ; cilia 

 grey irrorated with black. Hind wing greyish fuscous with an irregular white median 

 line ; cilia grey. Expanse 22 mm. 



This species is most nearly allied to the African forms comprising F. pentagonalis, 

 and others (especially to an undescribed species in the British Museum from Sierra Leone 

 (Dudgeon)). 



Aldabra, 2 $, 1 ?. 



49. Thermesia rubricans (Boisd.), Faun. Ent. Madag., p. 106. 



Seychelles : Mahe ; Silhouette ; Praslin ; St Anne ; Frigate (1 ^ in present 

 collection). Africa, Madagascar, India, N. Australasia. 



50. Hypospila thermesiana Guen., Maillard's Reunion, Lep., p. 53. 

 Hypospila holinoides Guen., Noct., iii., p. 388. 



Seychelles: Mahe(?); Felicite, 3 specimens. Also Reunion. 



51. Dragana pansalis Walk., Cat., xvi, p. 200. 



Seychelles : Mahe ; Silhouette ; Praslin ; Felicite, numerous specimens. Africa, 

 India, Ceylon, Andamans. Nicobars, etc. 



52. Tarache malgassica Mab., Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg., xxv, 1881, p. Ix ; Saalm., Lep. 

 Madag., p. 330. 



Aldabra, 1^. Astove, 1 <J. Assumption, 1^, 2?. Madagascar. 



53. Tarache rachiastris Hamps., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8. i. p. 483. 

 Aldabra, 4 $. 



54. Cosmophila erosa (Hiibn.), Zutr. Samml. Exot. Schmett., ii, p. 19, figs. 287, 288. 

 Seychelles : Mahe ; Silhouette, 5 specimens. Throughout tropical regions. 



55. Eublemma costimacula Saalm., Lep. Madag., p. 365 ; Hamps., Cat. Lep. Phal., 

 X, p. 180. 



Eublemma plagiopera Hamps., Ann. S. African Mus., ii, p. 420. 



Aldabra, 1^. Assumption, 1$. Madagascar. 



56. Oruza rupestre, n. sp. (Plate 1, tig. 7, $). 



$^. Head brown; frontal tuft tinged with pink; palpi dark brown. Thorax and 

 patagia clothed with both hair and scales, light ochreous irrorated with black. Abdomen 

 ochreous irrorated with black scales which may form definite dorsal segmental spots and 

 which are always in preponderance on the basal portion of the last segment, giving it a 

 black appearance ; anal tuft ochreous. Wings light ochreous, clothed basally witK both 



